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‘Comparative Co-production’ was the theme of the 2018 Mistra Urban Futures conference in Cape Town earlier this month, which was attended by members of the Urban Institute’s Realising Just Cities team.

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The Realising Just Cities programme is supporting peer learning visits to Cape Town and Barcelona for public sector strategists and community practitioners from Greater Manchester, to expand their knowledge of co-productive practices and participatory democracy in other urban settings.

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“To assess whether research is relevant to society, ask the stakeholders” says Mistra Urban Futures’ Sheffield-Manchester Platform leader, Beth Perry with colleagues

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New project announced from British Academy Sustainable Development Programme.

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Snapshot from the digital map locating examples of social and solidarity-related economic activity in and around Greater Manchester.

The following feature article about the Jam and Justice Action Research Collective's work mapping the social solidarity economy in Greater Manchester was originally published in The Meteor (themeteor.org) on 25 August 2018:

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There are many critiques of existing forms of urban governance as not fit for purpose. However, there is just as much contestation over what alternatives might look like. Coproduction is proposed as a response to address complex wicked issues. Achieving coproduction is a highly complex and daunting task. Bottom up approaches to the initiation of coproduced governance are seen as fruitful, including exemplification of utopian alternatives though local practices.

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This workshop is jointly organised by the Sheffield Methods Institute and the Urban Institute

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This year’s DevRes conference took place over two days on 22 and 23 August 2018 in Gothenburg and was themed around ‘rethinking development’. Twenty years after the publication of a special issue devoted to this very question, similar concerns prevail: the prevalence of language, theory and methods rooted in Global North academic knowledge production, legacies of structural adjustment and failed projects, and aid flows that still represent global inequities of resource distribution.

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The Urban Institute are delighted to welcome three new members to the team. Charlie Spring and Kristina Diprose are both research associates working at the Sheffield-Manchester Local Interaction Platform funded by Mistra Urban Futures.

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Space in Common is a Jam and Justice project led and delivered in partnership between The Democratic Society and the Action Research Collective.

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