Urban co-production and spatial governance systems in Europe

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Francesca Bragaglia , Erblin Berisha, Giancarlo Cotella, Umberto Janin Rivolin
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2023/106
Language Italian Pages 9 P. 83-91 File size 367 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2023-106011
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Urban co-production, through which citizens contribute to the planning and governance of cities with public institutions, is a widespread practice throughout Europe. The most recurrent model concerns the so-called ‘co-city’, while only a few countries have adopted national policies aimed at urban co-production. On a closer inspection, the comparison of spatial governance and planning systems in Europe reveals at least three possible levels of correlation. Apart from spontaneous cases of ‘co-city’, national urban co-production policies seem to be present only if the systems are capable of better capacity of public control. Moreover, only those systems that allocate land use rights on a case-by-case basis allow co-production activities to take place within the systems themselves.

Keywords: co-production; co-city; spatial governance and planning systems

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Francesca Bragaglia , Erblin Berisha, Giancarlo Cotella, Umberto Janin Rivolin, Co-produzione urbana e sistemi di governo del territorio in Europa in "TERRITORIO" 106/2023, pp 83-91, DOI: 10.3280/TR2023-106011