Municipal Enquiry
Predatory versus progressive community development
The 7+ year Everyone Everyday initiative has concluded and its parent organisation - Participatory City Foundation - is being wound up. ...
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Municipal Enquiry
Jun 2012 min read
'Vulture Capitalism' versus 'Communitisation'
Guest post by Selwyn Williams, Volunteer and Chair of the Board of Directors of Cwmni Bro Ffestiniog The term vulture capitalism is taken...
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Municipal Enquiry
Mar 169 min read
Occupy community development
Why community development projects led and owned by communities offer the alternative that Britain now so urgently needs Our last post...
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Municipal Enquiry
Nov 21, 202317 min read
A Tale of Two (Participatory) Cities
PART 1 In the first part of this two-part report, Nick Mahony and Matt Thompson set out why Barking and Dagenham needs more than a...
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Municipal Enquiry
Jul 26, 202314 min read
This Participatory City ain’t pretty
Reflecting on what’s at stake in the struggle over the future of the Everyone Everyday warehouse and its equipment, Nick Mahony and...
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Municipal Enquiry
Jun 24, 20239 min read
Barking up the wrong tree
As citizens in Barking join street demonstrations against the imminent closure of a vital community space, Nick Mahony, Frances Northrop...
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Municipal Enquiry
Feb 22, 202221 min read
Community organising: a crucible for local, national and global action
In the Spring of 2020 Sasha Josette, then an organiser with the UK Labour Party’s Community Organising Unit, talked to Nick Mahony of...
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Municipal Enquiry
Jan 12, 20221 min read
📣 Municipal Enquiry’s 2022 report: ‘Pathways to the New Municipalism’
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Municipal Enquiry
Jan 12, 202130 min read
What's the political, societal and community role of the Co-op Movement in England today?
Co-op activist and anarchist Cath Muller, talks to Nick Mahony of Municipal Enquiry, about the contemporary landscape of cooperativism in...
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Municipal Enquiry
Dec 15, 20204 min read
What acts of municipalism in England are most needed now?
The Covid-19 pandemic is fuelling debates about inequity. And in the context of the ‘new municipal’ landscape in England, this means...
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Municipal Enquiry
Nov 26, 202010 min read
Community Organising as a council employee in Nottingham
Stephen Smith has been a Community Organiser since the very first Community Organisers programme launched in 2011. Stephen now works as a...
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Municipal Enquiry
Sep 23, 202016 min read
From Invisibility to Self-Determination
Disability rights activist and equality trainer Barbara Lisicki talks to Fanny Malinen for Municipal Enquiry about disabled people's...
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Municipal Enquiry
Aug 19, 202015 min read
Compliance, defiance or popular planning?
Will McMahon – Chair of Community Plan for Holloway – talks to Nick Mahony of Municipal Enquiry about collaboratively generating a...
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Municipal Enquiry
Aug 14, 20209 min read
Cinema Paradiso
Frances Northrop of Municipal Enquiry talks to Elizabeth Costello about how Leigh Film Society is embedded in its community
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Municipal Enquiry
Jun 18, 202010 min read
Unexpected solidarities under forced devolution
"..now is the time to stand together in solidarity with the aim of collectively creating alternatives.."
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Municipal Enquiry
May 21, 20204 min read
Democratising the crisis
What does the current crisis, sparked by the Covid-19 outbreak, mean for how we go about this enquiry? Currently there are different...
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