Urban Sustainability Transitions

by Niki Frantzeskaki (Editor), Vanesa Castán Broto (Editor), Lars Coenen (Editor), Derk Loorbach (Editor)

Overview

This book provides new insights into how sustainability transitions unfold in different types of cities across the world and explores possible strategies for governing urban transitions, emphasizing the co-evolution of material and institutional transformations in socio-technical and socio-ecological systems. With case studies of mega-cities suc

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415784184
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Series:	Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Niki Frantzeskaki is Associate Professor of Sustainability Transitions Governance at the Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Vanesa Castán Broto is Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK.

Lars Coenen is City of Melbourne Chair in Resilient Cities at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Derk Loorbach is Professor of Socio-economic Transitions and Director of the Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

1. Urban Sustainability Transitions: The Dynamics and Opportunities of Sustainability Transitions in Cities 2. Anchoring Global Networks in Urban Niches: How On-site Water Recycling Emerged in Three Chinese Cities 3. Understanding the Policy Realities of Urban Transitions 4. The Governance of Transformative Change: Tracing the Pathway of the Sustainability Transition in Vancouver, Canada 5. Transitioning Complex Urban Systems: The Importance of Urban Ecology for Sustainability in New York City 6. The Role of Place-specific Dynamics in the Destabilization of the Danish Water Regime: An Actor–Network View on Urban Sustainability Transitions 7. Village Communities and Social Innovation Policies in Seoul: Exploring the Urban Dimension of Grassroots Niches 8. Spatialising Urban Sustainability Transitions: Eco-cities, Multilevel Perspectives and the Political Ecology of Scale in the Bohai Rim, China 9. Urban Sustainability Transitions: Opportunities and Challenges for Institutional Change 10. The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Waste-to-Energy Technologies in Berlin’s Infrastructure History 11. The Spatial Complexity of Sustainability Transitions in the ‘Cities of the East’ 12. From Building Small Urban Spaces for a Car-free Life to Challenging the Global Regime of Automobility: Cases from Vienna and Freiburg 13. Multiple Transitions: Energy Precariousness and ‘Transient’ Urban Tenants 14. Worth the Trouble?! An Evaluative Scheme for Urban Sustainability Transition Labs (USTLs) and an Application to the USTL in Phoenix, Arizona 15. Change and Persistency: Understanding Social-ecological Transition in a Post-socialist City – the Example of Leipzig, Germany 16. A Multi-Actor Perspective on Urban Sustainability Transitions 17. Cities as Arenas of Low-carbon Transitions: Friction Zones in the Negotiation of Low-carbon Futures 18. Mediators Acting in Urban Transition Processes: Carlsberg City District and Cycle Superhighways 19. Flows, Infrastructures and the African Urban Transition 20. Focusing on Ecosystem Services in the Multiple Social-ecological Transitions of Lodz 21. The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions 22. Sustainability Transitions and the City: Linking to Transition Studies and Looking Forward