%0 Journal Article
%T Making spaces for co
%A Wayne Shand
%J Environment and Urbanization
%@ 1746-0301
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0956247818783962
%X To make co-production work as a strategy for urban development, and to establish a basis for collaborative action, states and organized communities must find a way to manage their unequal power relationship. Effective partnerships, constructed through projects of co-production, require participants to move beyond institutionally defined roles of service provider and service consumer to forge new terms for collaboration and spaces for joint decision-making. The processes of making space for co-production can be centrally important to establishing the legitimacy of development activity that includes the urban poor as stakeholders. Drawing from research undertaken in Harare, Zimbabwe, this paper examines how a memorandum of understanding was used to frame dialogue between community and state actors and facilitate co-production of housing and infrastructure in a low-income settlement
%K co-production
%K Harare
%K informal settlements
%K memorandum of understanding
%K shelter upgrading
%K state¨Csocial relations
%K urban development
%K Zimbabwe
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956247818783962