COMMON_ACCESS Publications
Discover the latest research and publications from COMMON_ACCESS to gain fresh insights as the project unfolds.
For a deeper dive into the contextual research that shaped the project, the scientific reading list can be found below.
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Flowers of Proximity Co-creation Workshops
Commoning Accessibility (CA) reimagines equitable access to urban services in the context of the 15-minute city. Moving beyond proximity and individual mobility, CA highlights the collective, community-led practices and infrastructures that shape accessibility. This framework explores shared mobility, care services, and local initiatives, proposing a research agenda focused on enabling, understanding, experimenting with, assessing, and supporting policy for CA. It calls for a shift from top-down planning to approaches rooted in collective agency and everyday interdependencies.
Publications and Deliverables
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Preprint
Commoning Accessibility: a Research Agenda
Commoning Accessibility offers a new lens on equitable access in the 15-minute city, focusing on community-led practices, shared infrastructures, and collective care. This preprint sets out a research agenda to guide future studies and policy, aiming to shift accessibility planning toward everyday collaboration and local innovation.
Friday, 2 May 2025
Deliverable 1.1
Flowers of Proximity Co-creation Workshops
Led by TUM, D1.1 explores suburban communities’ local accessibility needs through co-creation workshops across five European testbeds. A pilot in Munich refines the “Flowers of Proximity” format, later applied in Amsterdam, Bergamo, Ghent, and Oxfordshire. Workshops identify service preferences across neighbourhood typologies, with TUM leading protocol development and implementation support.
Friday, 14 March 2025
Deliverable 3.1
A Review of Tools for Commoning Accessibility
Led by LSE, DHC Ltd and the University of Westminster, D3.1 analyses 27 case studies to categorise and present the tools in place that support commoning accessibility practices across parts of Europe. The publication supports COMMON_ACCESS' growing body of research on the organisation of existing commoning accessibility practices within urban peripheries.
Friday, 29 November 2024
Deliverable 5.1
Commoning Accessibility and
policy conditions: An analytical framework
Led by the University of Amsterdam, D5.1 provides an overview of the diverse practices occurring across peri-urban, suburban, and rural areas, while also mapping the policy frameworks and agendas that influence and shape these activities.
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Deliverable 2.1
CA Conceptual framework
Deliverable 2.1, 'CA Conceptual framework' report, is now live. Lead by Politecnico di Milano, the report reviews the literature and data needed to develop the working definitions and expected context surrounding Commoning Accessibility.
Scientific references
- Adey, P., Cresswell, T., Lee J., Novoa, A., Nikolaeva, A., & C. Temenos. (2021). Moving Towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low-Carbon Future. London: Bloomsbury (Imprint Zed Books).
- Büttner, B., Seisenberger, S., Baquero, M., Rivas, A. Haxhija, S., Ramirez, A., & McCormick, B. (2022): ±15-Minute City: Human-Centred Planning in Action. In: Urban Mobility Next 9. EIT Urban Mobility - open access
- Levine, J., Grengs, J., & Merlin, L. A. (2019). From mobility to accessibility: Transforming urban transportation and land-use planning. Cornell University Press.
- Manzini, E. (2022). Livable Proximity: Ideas for the City that Cares. EGEA spa.
- Moreno, C., Allam, Z., Chabaud, D., Gall, C., & Pratlong, F. (2021). Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, resilience and place identity in future post-pandemic cities. Smart Cities, 4(1), 93-111.
- Nevens, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Gorissen, L., & Loorbach, D. (2013). Urban Transition Labs: co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities. Journal of Cleaner Production, 50, 111-122.
- Nikolaeva A. & & Duffhues, J. (2022). Commoning mobility in the age of COVID-19: A dialogue between Anna Nikolaeva and Jan Duffhues. Applied Mobilities, 0(0), 1–8.
- Roorda, C., Frantzeskaki, N., Loorbach, D., Van Steenbergen, F., & Wittmayer, J. (2012). Transition Management in Urban Context. Guidance Manual-Collaborative Evaluation Version - open access