City Mine(d): make urban development everybody's business

Article about social change in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: "Collective Action is not an option", in: Ciudades Cohesionadas: Co-crear agendas urbanas incluyentes. México, 2022

Approach

Though the work of City Mine(d) seems to have changed a lot over the past decade, there is an undercurrent that remains the same. There is a purpose –both in the sense of what we want to achieve and our ‘reason of being’–, there are some people who seem to keep sticking around, and there are principles.

"Tactics for Tough Issues", article in Multitudes 77, 2019

City Mine(d): bonding, bridging, linking

City Mine(d) wants to make urban development everybody's business. In doing so, it resolutely claims a place in the debate on participation and inclusion. The most sustainable way to involve citizens in the development of the city and its neighbourhood is to give them access to different networks. Due to the super-diversity of big cities like Brussels and London, traditional networks no longer have the emancipatory potential to involve citizens in local developments. There is a need for new networks, and new methods of network development, and this is what City Mine(d) has been doing for the last decade.