Identify the associations that are active in your neighborhood. Have representatives meet to discuss common causes. See if there are not opportunities for collaboration, coordination, and perhaps cooperation. Those three community activities could lead seamlessly to a capability to negotiate together with municipal government, business, and foundations.
Olaf/2020/11/02 13:52 # Question: is there any governance foreseen? The neighborhood mapping initiative was non-dominant, bottom-up, no one participant having a boss. But the infrastructure needs something co-ordinated by a group of people, in some form or the other, would you agree? Then there is a governance structure and process in place (either explicit or implicit). Who takes care of that? Who owns? Even a co-op is a (private) owner. ======= # On governance structures in neighborhoods: Yes every viable system will require a management metasystem (Sys 2-5) and in response your question--a System 3 and 5. In the case of neighborhoods. They already exist. They are already viable. The issues are that the environment is changing and also there are negative outcomes from old "decisions" that are now appearing. The point I want to make is that they already have some "structure". I do not imagine "reengineering" neighborhoods. I imagine neighborhoods changing their rate of adaptation and their direction of adaptation, when together they see more clearly their own parts, relationships, consequences, possibilities, capabilities, and limits.
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