Knowledge for just urban sustainability

May, Tim; Perry, Beth

doi:10.1080/13549839.2016.1233527

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“…The claim is that co-production offers a way of undertaking research that engages in real time with different stakeholder groups. This moves beyond the idea that universities are only valuable to their immediate localities in terms of economic multiplier effects and instead focuses on the potential transformative potential of knowledge in urban sustainability transitions (May and Perry 2016). Our work suggests that co-production may be a potential pathway for moving from affirmative to transformative strategies for urban justice at the urban level, gaining traction within existing institutional settings, without ruling out more fundamental transformation.…”

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“…Secondly, whilst much academic framing of the theory and practice of urban justice is deeply critical of existing institutions, there is a gap in understanding the potential role of engaged research-practice relationships in catalysing urban transformations. Greater attention has been paid to universities as partners in strategic urban alliances through triple helix partnerships or innovation platforms than in their potential role in facilitating urban social and ecological justice (Durose and Richardson 2015, Polk 2015, May and Perry 2016.…”

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Beyond critique: the value of co-production in realising just cities?

Perry

Atherton²

2017

Local Environment

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This paper contributes to the burgeoning literature on the role of academic–practice relationships in contributing to sustainable urban development. We argue that co-production offers a potential pathway for academics to work with policy-makers in moving towards the realisation of more just cities. The paper starts from the position that there is an essential need for, but limit to, critique alone in contributing to the possibility of urban change. Moving towards a shared critique as a basis for future action is an important precondition for realising more just cities, adding weight to the voices arguing for alternative urban visions. These arguments are advanced through a study conducted by academic researchers and policy-makers in the Greater Manchester Low Carbon Hub. The paper outlines a process for working with existing urban institutions within institutional constraints to develop affirmative actions with the aim of longer term transformations. A key contribution is then the identification of eight markers for assessing progress towards the realisation of more just cities.\ud \u

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Beyond critique: the value of co-production in realising just cities?

Perry

Atherton²

2017

Local Environment

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“…LIPs are one response to these challenges, innovations in the social organisation of knowledge (May & Perry, 2016b). The experience of the LIPs suggests that platforms are ways of organising that allow for diversity and plurality in relationships, offer different kinds of spaces, defined variably as "safe", "unaligned", "neutral" or "deliberative".…”

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“…LIPs are context-sensitive and seek not only to produce excellent but also relevant knowledge (May & Perry, 2016b) through building legitimacy, salience and credibility locally and constructing networks of different actors to address sustainability challenges. "Sustainable urbanisation" provided a springboard for all partnerships and the primacy of impact and relevance from funded projects and programmes motivated all the LIPs.…”

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Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability

Perry

Patel

Bretzer

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Urban sustainability is a wicked issue unsuited to management through traditional decision-making structures. Co-productive arrangements, spaces and processes are inscribed in new organisational forms to bridge between diverse forms of knowledge and expertise. This article suggests that local interaction platforms (LIPs) are innovative responses to these challenges, developed in two African and two European cities between 2010 and 2014. Through elaborating the design and practice of the LIPs, the article concludes that the value of this approach lies in its context-sensitivity and iterative flexibility to articulate between internationally shared challenges and distinctive local practices. Six necessary conditions for the evolution of LIPs are presented: anchorage, co-constitution, context-sensitivity, alignment, connection and shared functions. In the context of increased uncertainty, complexity and the demand for transdisciplinary knowledge production, the platform concept has wider relevance in surfacing the challenges and possibilities for more adaptive urban governance.

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“…Such processes require a commitment to an equality of interaction between different stakeholders both inside and outside formal political power. This may offer cities benefits in terms of improving inclusion and the perceived and actual social justice of outcomes from action in cities (May and Perry, ; Perry & Atherton, ). The potential is to create a step change in the nature of participation, using spaces to foster co‐production interactions that are as diverse as possible, capturing the wide spectrum of views and life/community experiences that co‐exist.…”

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Recasting Urban Governance through Leeds City Lab: Developing Alternatives to Neoliberal Urban Austerity in Co‐production Laboratories

Chatterton

Owen

Cutter

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article reports on a research project, Leeds City Lab, that brought together partner organizations to explore the meanings and practices of co‐production in the context of urban change. Our intention is to offer a response to the crisis in urban governance by combining the growing academic and practitioner debates on co‐production and urban laboratories in order to explore radically different institutional personae that can respond to deficits in contemporary urban governance, especially relating to participation and disenfranchisement, and ultimately unlock improved ways of designing, managing and living in cities. Our analysis has identified four key ways in which co‐production labs can recast urban governance to more progressive ends: by moving beyond traditional organizational identities and working practices, embracing grey spaces of new civic interfaces, foregrounding emotions and power and committing to durable solutions. Ultimately, what we point towards is that urban governance can be more effectively enacted in co‐production labs that bring together universities and the public, private and civil society sectors on a basis of equality, trust and openness. These spaces have the potential to unlock a city's knowledge, resources and assets, to unpack complex challenges and to build capacity to deliver improved city‐wide solutions.

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Knowledge for just urban sustainability

Cited by 24 publications

References 52 publications

Beyond critique: the value of co-production in realising just cities?

Beyond critique: the value of co-production in realising just cities?

Organising for Co-Production: Local Interaction Platforms for Urban Sustainability

Recasting Urban Governance through Leeds City Lab: Developing Alternatives to Neoliberal Urban Austerity in Co‐production Laboratories

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