TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-producing urban knowledge
T2 - Experimenting with alternatives to 'best practice' for Cape Town, South Africa
AU - Patel, Zarina
AU - Greyling, Saskia
AU - Parnell, Susan
AU - Pirie, Gordon
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - As an alternative to 'best practice', a City-University partnership in Cape Town has been influencing the development trajectory of the city through the co-production of knowledge by practitioners and academics. The partnership allows for sharing and a deepening of substantive knowledge about Cape Town and also acquisition of tactical knowledge about the regulatory decision-making process in the city. The new networks of knowledge generation transcend institutional boundaries. The impacts of the programme are not confined to the outcomes generated; value also derives from the varied modes and processes of the co-production of useful knowledge about the city. Co-produced interventions in cities are an alternative inspiration to off-the-shelf or best practice 'solutions' that are uncritically replicated between cities.
AB - As an alternative to 'best practice', a City-University partnership in Cape Town has been influencing the development trajectory of the city through the co-production of knowledge by practitioners and academics. The partnership allows for sharing and a deepening of substantive knowledge about Cape Town and also acquisition of tactical knowledge about the regulatory decision-making process in the city. The new networks of knowledge generation transcend institutional boundaries. The impacts of the programme are not confined to the outcomes generated; value also derives from the varied modes and processes of the co-production of useful knowledge about the city. Co-produced interventions in cities are an alternative inspiration to off-the-shelf or best practice 'solutions' that are uncritically replicated between cities.
KW - African Centre for Cities
KW - City of Cape Town
KW - Knowledge co-production
KW - Knowledge networks
KW - Sustainable urban development
KW - Tactical knowledge
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84947235196&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3828/idpr.2015.15
DO - 10.3828/idpr.2015.15
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:84947235196
SN - 1474-6743
VL - 37
SP - 187
EP - 203
JO - International Development Planning Review
JF - International Development Planning Review
IS - 2
ER -