Co-producing the democratic city: The registers of support for urban mobilizations in working-class neighborhoods

This paper investigates the conditions for urban co-production in residents’ contests of top-down urban projects. It thus brings to light the positioning of a civil society organization created in the 2010s in France. Calling for a re-examination of the technical, political, and epistemic challenges of co-production among professionals, “people affected,” and academics, it questions these conflicts oriented around urban and democratic injustices. In this paper, we pay attention to bonds and intermediation alliances enabling co-production between neighborhoods groups, facilitators, academic actors, and broader networks, while also highlighting methods for more democratic knowledge-sharing.