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Emerging Urban SpacesThe Urban as a Concrete Utopia? Co-production and Local Governance in Distinct Urban Geographies: Transnational Learning from Chile and Germany

Emerging Urban Spaces: The Urban as a Concrete Utopia? Co-production and Local Governance in... [Reflecting on empirical material from Chile and Germany, this chapter combines practical insights for an analysis of co-productive urban projects with the aim to generate insights for the ‘right to the city’, a concept that has travelled from EuropeEurope to North and later Latin AmericaLatin America. We argue not only for different avenues to understand the right to the city, but also emphasise that there is a need to reflect on how the concept has been reformulated by different local interactions. Emphasis is placed on how civil society actors are locally connected to their cities—in our case mainly BerlinGermanyBerlin and SantiagoChileSantiago, while at the same time engaged in networksNetworks of collaboration and knowledge exchange via ‘encounters’. In this chapter, reflections on encounters allow shedding light on emerging struggles but also negotiation practices between different actors in the co-productionCo-production processes. Co-productive practices might certainly entail a risk of underestimating broader structural changes in urban developmentDevelopment—which, at times, resonate with neoliberal individualism. Yet, our findings also reveal that such practices bring to light important elements of the right to the city, especially claims for being within the urban core and democratic engagement in city-building. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’sLefebvre terminology we, hence, argue that these practices reflect the right to centralityRight to the citycentralityand the Right to the cityright to participationright to participation; they represent encounters that emerge in constant struggle, contestation and negotiation processes. Understood like this, the urban becomes a concrete utopia—a possibility, a promise to be constantly produced and reproduced.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Emerging Urban SpacesThe Urban as a Concrete Utopia? Co-production and Local Governance in Distinct Urban Geographies: Transnational Learning from Chile and Germany

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Horn, Philipp; Alfaro d'Alencon, Paola; Duarte Cardoso, Ana Claudia
Alfaro d’Alençon, Paola; López Morales, Ernesto
Emerging Urban Spaces — Feb 28, 2018
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
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978-3-319-57815-6
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65 –85
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10.1007/978-3-319-57816-3_4
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Abstract

[Reflecting on empirical material from Chile and Germany, this chapter combines practical insights for an analysis of co-productive urban projects with the aim to generate insights for the ‘right to the city’, a concept that has travelled from EuropeEurope to North and later Latin AmericaLatin America. We argue not only for different avenues to understand the right to the city, but also emphasise that there is a need to reflect on how the concept has been reformulated by different local interactions. Emphasis is placed on how civil society actors are locally connected to their cities—in our case mainly BerlinGermanyBerlin and SantiagoChileSantiago, while at the same time engaged in networksNetworks of collaboration and knowledge exchange via ‘encounters’. In this chapter, reflections on encounters allow shedding light on emerging struggles but also negotiation practices between different actors in the co-productionCo-production processes. Co-productive practices might certainly entail a risk of underestimating broader structural changes in urban developmentDevelopment—which, at times, resonate with neoliberal individualism. Yet, our findings also reveal that such practices bring to light important elements of the right to the city, especially claims for being within the urban core and democratic engagement in city-building. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’sLefebvre terminology we, hence, argue that these practices reflect the right to centralityRight to the citycentralityand the Right to the cityright to participationright to participation; they represent encounters that emerge in constant struggle, contestation and negotiation processes. Understood like this, the urban becomes a concrete utopia—a possibility, a promise to be constantly produced and reproduced.]

Published: Feb 28, 2018

Keywords: Chile; Germany; Co-production; Right to the city

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