Democratizing cities

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Argues cities become democratic by changing flows of value and building collective intelligence, not by voting alone. Describes WikiHouse (32 chapters) as an open‑source housing system cut from plywood and iterated globally, an open furniture project with 8,000 downloads and a Bristol factory training locals, and a Civic Foundry building whose business model recirculates funding to charities. Cites a Todmorden garden project over seven years that lowers crime and unemployment, a Bristol urban beach drawing 85,000 visitors, and social impact bonds and causal‑loop mapping as tools used.

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1. 0:00Beyond the vote
2. 2:20Democratizing creation
3. 3:24Open making
4. 7:05Open furniture
5. 10:03Civic architecture
6. 12:30Flows of value
7. 15:39Civic making
8. 17:37Systemic change
9. 21:42Causal mapping
10. 25:44New models for cities
11. 28:55Financing movements
12. 31:36Moving from I to We
13. 35:17Building shared language
14. 38:22The architecture of dialogue
15. 41:20Q&A and discussion