eprintid: 3376
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2020-09-30 12:38:11
lastmod: 2020-09-30 12:38:11
status_changed: 2020-09-30 12:38:11
type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Sommer, Luca Vincent
creators_id: S4121120
creators_email: lucavincentsommer@gmail.com
title: Co-production in Housing - Unravelling the Challenges surrounding Self-building in Hamburg
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: In response to amalgamated sustainability challenges, local governments increasingly engage in new forms of state-society co-production to enhance and govern transformative change. In Europe’s crisis-afflicted housing sectors, this trend is reflected in growing numbers of public support programmes for co-housing, which contemporary sustainability discourses frame as a promising model for sustainable urban development and a potential catalyst for transformative change. But notwithstanding the optimism surrounding co-production in housing, the lived realities and perceived challenges of the actors involved still remain largely unknown. To address this knowledge gap, this study employed a single case study to unravel the perceived co-production challenges surrounding self-building in Hamburg. Hamburg has been a frontrunner in co-production in housing as it launched one of Europe’s most ambitious support programmes for self-build co-housing in 2003. The findings show that the main challenges concern (1) internal group formation & organisation, (2) transparency, (4) empowerment and (4) financing. Based on this notion, the study proposes recommended actions to facilitate the group formation process, enhance transparency, and decentralise decision-making processes. These lessons are expected to improve the conditions for self-building in Hamburg and serve as a source of guidance for support policies for self-building in similar contexts.
date: 2020
pages: 186
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: SP
tutors_name: Puerari, E.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Planologie
tutors_email: E.Puerari@rug.nl
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keywords_local: sustainability transition
keywords_local: social innovation
keywords_local: self-build co-housing
keywords_local: co-production
keywords_local: co-production challenges
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-09-30
citation:   Sommer, Luca Vincent  (2020) Co-production in Housing - Unravelling the Challenges surrounding Self-building in Hamburg.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3376/1/MastersThesis_Luca_S4121120_.pdf