Civic Practices Book

Civic Practices Book is the first CivicWise book and it brings together 90 contributions from 16 countries and 40 cities. The book is organized in four sections: spaces, actions or projects, methodologies, and research.

Civic Practices have always existed. The most primitive forms of urbanization emerged from self-organized communities to address their needs. Civic Practices are not new, but new opportunities are emerging in this context of post-2008 Global Financial Crisis. The aim of this book is to contribute to compiling initiatives, claims, campaigns, actions, projects, pieces of research, methodologies, participatory and co-design processes that are happening all over the world to create communities of practice, of Civic Practices.

CivicWise is a distributed and open community. Its mission is to empower citizens by fostering collaborative urbanism, promoting civic innovation and inspiring civic engagement. CivicWise wants to canalize and use global knowledge to improve local civic projects, involving people all around the world that are facing similar problems. The aim is to federate the collective intelligence by using and experiencing it through local actions. CivicWise promotes a better collaboration between the general public, university, local business, and local authorities.

The content of the book is multi-lingual. In order to make this publication as inclusive as possible, each author or group of authors has written in its own language. The preface and introduction are written in English.