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According to the European Commission's working definition of Nature Based Solutions (NBS), these are diverse solutions inspired and supported by nature, delivering co-benefits in the triple bottom line. Properly implemented, NBS work as modular vehicles for ecosystem services (ES). To test the effectiveness of NBS in urban climate resilience strategies and to mainstream them towards a 2050 scenario, the H2020 UNaLab project provides cities across the world with know-how, tools, technical assistance and network support.To address the challenge's complexity, UNaLab calls for the participation of diverse stakeholders in prospective planning exercises following the Roadmapping Methodology (RM). Previously, researchers and practitioners have affirmed the capacity of the RM to increase participation, develop ownership, and make more just decision-making processes. These features are relevant when stakeholders aim to give place to commonly shared ES in their city – i.e. urban commons. The present research studies the potential of the RM to enable stakeholder cooperation beyond the planning stage and, thus, providing an alternative approach to taking ownership of and managing the urban commons.A literature review framed the conceptualization of urban ES as urban commons, and allowed a clear understanding of the RM principles and modes of implementation. Then, surveys and interviews with UNaLab RM practitioners allowed to assess the actual implementation of the RM and its potential for cooperative engagement and democratic community development. Results show that good practices, such as the importance of soft-skills for facilitation to enable stakeholder participation and visual media to support sense-making, and areas of opportunity such as a methodic approach to address biases in stakeholder selection and allowing participants to influence the RM activities to locally-attune them, are relevant to enable the potential of the RM to deploy collective action for managing urban commons created by NBS.