It’s less the destination and more the getting there: urban development, emergence and co-production in Galway, Ireland

Collins, Patrick, Rainey, Mark Justin, & Strohmayer, Ulf. (2024). It’s less the destination and more the getting there: urban development, emergence and co-production in Galway, Ireland. Town Planning Review, 95(1), 89-107. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2023.23

Abstract

This article presents the case for a reconceptualised form of engagement around development at a local scale within a medium-sized city. Deploying ideas gleaned from literature on emergence, the article explores how a non-teleological form of development might engage with stakeholders in an urban regeneration area. Focusing on three distinct social practices – co-production, activism and policy – the article sets out to unfold the example of Nuns’ Island in Galway, Ireland to chart a participatory form of development in the absence of previously defined goals. Honing in on ‘storytelling’ as a key cultural strategy in this process, the article concludes with a view from Europe’s West towards locally embedded urban development practices.

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

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Attribution 4.0 International

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