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A new role for citizens’ initiatives: the difficulties in co-creating institutional change in urban planning

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  • Saskia Bisschops
  • Raoul Beunen

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In this paper, we analyze the institutional work that underlies the attempt to institutionalize a more active role of citizens in urban planning. We draw on a case in which a group of citizens aims to redevelop a brownfield site into a vital urban area. This citizens’ initiative is co-creating a new form of urban planning with the municipality, private organizations and individual citizens. The study shows how citizens’ initiatives can be a driver for institutional change, but that uncertainties about new institutions tend to reinforce the maintenance of existing ones. This paradox explains why even if the ambition for a new form of planning is widely shared, actually realizing institutional change can still be difficult and time-consuming.

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  • Saskia Bisschops & Raoul Beunen, 2019. "A new role for citizens’ initiatives: the difficulties in co-creating institutional change in urban planning," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(1), pages 72-87, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:62:y:2019:i:1:p:72-87
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1436532
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    1. Miguel Lopes & Fernando Alves, 2021. "Digital Tools to Foster Inclusiveness: Porto’s System of Accessible Itineraries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-16, May.
    2. Christian Scholl & Joop de Kraker, 2021. "The Practice of Urban Experimentation in Dutch City Labs," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(1), pages 161-170.
    3. Lummina G. Horlings & Christian Lamker & Emma Puerari & Ward Rauws & Gwenda van der Vaart, 2021. "Citizen Engagement in Spatial Planning, Shaping Places Together," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-15, October.
    4. Bisschops, Saskia & Beunen, Raoul & Hollemans, Daniël, 2023. "Institutionalizing ideas about citizens’ initiatives in planning: Emerging discrepancies between rhetoric and assurance," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    5. Candel, Melissa & Paulsson, Jenny, 2023. "Enhancing public value with co-creation in public land development: The role of municipalities," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).

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