EURA 2025 – Best Paper Award

EURA 2025 Best Paper Award

Paper Title:

Analysing and evaluating co-productive planning practice in Germany

Abstract
Co-production, which refers to multi-stakeholder collaboration and partnership with citizens, is an increasingly popular concept in planning literature. There are several dimensions of co-production and attempts have been made to gain a comprehensive understanding of the concept in planning including the development of Co-7D-framework which includes 1) actor; 2) reason; 3) input; 4) output; 5) phase; 6) means; and 7)context (Lee et al. 2024). The concept is also more and more found in planning practice in Germany where co-production is seen as a key principle for good urban development policy. It is, however, open to question to what extent co-production is achieved. Thus, the aim of the research is to analyse and evaluate co-productive planning practice in Germany. Co-7D-framework is applied along with document analysis and expert interviews to analyse a number of case studies. The research gives an insight into how urban spaces are co-produced. Furthermore, it provides a spectrum of co-productive planning practice. Based on the research findings, policy implications are provided as to how to achieve a higher level of co-production in planning.