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Co-design of Public Spaces with Local Communities

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This chapter explores the possibilities for co-designing public space with local communities, starting from the experience that the POLIS Research Centre has built up over 20 years working in various neighbourhoods in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. POLIS has developed its interdisciplinary public participation activity in the fields of urban design and public art within the framework of Urban Regeneration processes. It explores the implementation of creative strategies for citizen participation, that can be encompassed under the concept of urban governance, which we take to refer to the quality of participation necessary ‘to ensure that political, social and economic priorities are based on a broad consensus in society and that the voices of the excluded, poorest and most vulnerable are heard in decision-making’ (UNDP in Governance for Sustainable Development: Integrating Governance in the Post-2015 Development Framework, United Nations Development Programme, New York, 2014, 4).

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Acknowledgements

Work developed within the framework of the projects AGAUR 2017 SGR 1125 (CRIT), HAR2017-88672-R (Public space, creative participation, civic memory) and agreement Neighbourhood-District of Sant Andreu-University. With thanks to the students of the Masters in Urban Design, Universitat de Barcelona, for their involvement in the project Urban Cohesion in Baró de Viver and Bon Pastor.

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Remesar, A. (2021). Co-design of Public Spaces with Local Communities. In: Loeffler, E., Bovaird, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53705-0_17

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