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Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements
5th May 2020The potential health impacts of COVID-19 are immense in informal settlements, but if control measures are poorly executed these could also have severe negative impacts. Public health interventions must be balanced with social and economic interventions, especially in relation to the informal economy upon which...
Reclaiming public health: the communalist healthcare model
20th July 2020While city and state government could do more to keep hospitals stable, by combining the latest practice and theory, we have the potential to develop a functional health system that serves the community and values healthcare workers. Yet this requires a reconstructive and radically democratic...
Municipalism in Spain
1st December 2017The first wave of municipalist governments in Spain was the result of the formation of confluences. The article analyzes their origin, their particularities and their common ground. It also addresses their potential for further transformation, both in Spain and beyond. Photo: Josh Sorenson
Urban governance and political change under a radical left government: The case of Barcelona
24th January 2019Local elections in May 2015 represented a major shift in the political history of Barcelona (Spain). The Barcelona en Comú candidacy, born in January 2015 under the impetus of a set of progressive social and political organizations, became the first municipal political force in the...
Model of a code of conduct for a non-violent organisation
10th March 2020INDEX 0. JUSTIFICATION 1. SITUATIONS COVERED BY THIS DOCUMENT 2. PREVENTION 3. CODE OF CONDUCT 3.1. OUR VALUES. WHAT IS OK. 3.2. WHAT IS NOT OK. EXAMPLES. 4. LINES OF ACTION IN THE EVENT OF SITUATIONS OF VIOLENCE 0. JUSTIFICATION This document proposes two lines...
City stories: The podcast by Energy Cities. Episode with Alba del Campo from Cadiz
1st April 2020In this episode of “City Stories” Alba del Campo, a Spanish journalist and activist fighting for more energy democracy. She has been an advisor to the local authority of Cadiz since 2015. A new local government elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019. Since then,...
Cities ask if it’s time to defund police and ‘reimagine’ public safety
8th June 2020In the US, Minneapolis is not the only city asking the question of how to approach public safety and emergency response after national unrest following the death of George Floyd. The calls to redirect money away from the police come as cities face steep budget...
Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do
2nd October 2019On August 24, 1978, Murray Bookchin gave a lecture in Amherst, Massachusetts. In his speech, Bookchin argued against the ideology of futurism and for ecological utopianism. In the Q&A session, he pointed out that he was not against technology itself, he was against technocracy, and...
Which municipalism? Let’s be choosy
2nd January 2019There is a wide array of experiences that voluntarily fall under the definition of “new municipalism”. As in other dimensions of this radical movement, practice is preceding its conceptual definition, hence making it possible to elaborate a definition based on observation. There are some common...
Meet the city council at-large candidate endorsed by Elizabeth Warren
11th September 2019Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed Philadelphia City Council contender Kendra Brooks, from the Working Families Party. This interview with K. Brooks deepens her views on politics. Photo: Felipe Ribeiro
The “Preston Model”. A UK city takes the lead in progressive procurement
24th June 2020Strongly affected by deindustrialisation, and more recently by austerity policies imposed on councils following the financial crisis, Preston, in the north of England, has chosen to no longer depend on external investors for its “development” and radically reorient its public procurement to favour local economic...
Indigenous technologies “could change the way we design cities” says environmentalist Julia Watson
11th February 2020Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson. In her new book Watson argues that tribal communities, seen by many as primitive, are highly advanced when it comes to creating systems in symbiosis with...