Beyond Collaboration: A Network Analysis of Local Stances and Global Frameworks in the Collective Design of the City

The research observes practices of collective city-making beyond the participatory framework of institutional urban gov- ernance. In particular, it looks at how grassroots organizations in Bologna are able to produce a dual movement between the local and the global, mutually informing global movements and local practices oriented toward the sustainable growth of cities. The first section introduces the theoretical frame- work, based on participatory governance, urban commons and grassroots networks; it presents the methodology in the second section, introducing the criteria for the dataset and the network analysis consisting of local and global nodes within the city of Bologna; it then presents the results of the analysis, discusses them and draws the conclusions in the final section.