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Coproducing Urban Governance
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Abstract There are many critiques of existing forms of urban governance as not fit for purpose. However, what alternatives might look like is equally contested. Coproduction is proposed as a response to address complex wicked issues. Achieving coproduction is a highly complex and daunting task. Bottom up app... view more
There are many critiques of existing forms of urban governance as not fit for purpose. However, what alternatives might look like is equally contested. Coproduction is proposed as a response to address complex wicked issues. Achieving coproduction is a highly complex and daunting task. Bottom up approaches to the initiation of coproduced governance are seen as fruitful, including exemplification of utopian alternatives though local practices. New ways of seeing the role of conflict in participation are needed, including ways to institutionalise agonistic participatory practices. Coproduction in governance drives demands for forms of knowledge production that are themselves coproductive. New urban governing spaces need to be coproduced through participative transformation requiring experimentation and innovation in re-designing urban knowledge architectures. Future research in this field is proposed which is nuanced, grounded in explicit weightings of different democratic values, and which mediates between recognition of contingency and the ability to undertake comparative analysis.... view less
Keywords
governance; urban planning; urban development; participation
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
coproduction; knowledge production; participation; urban governance
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 145-149
Journal
Politics and Governance, 6 (2018) 1
Issue topic
Co-Producing Urban Governance for Social Innovation
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; reviewed