Cities and urban areas are increasingly recognized as strategic arenas for climate change action. Processes of urban governance addressing climate change reconfigure the politics …
A fixation on 'scaling up'has captured current innovation discourses and, with it, political and economic life at large. Perhaps most visible in the rise of platform technologies, big data and …
This chapter explores the notion of experimentation in the context of urban sustainability transitions. It focuses on the sustainability transitions field apart from the wider literature on …
G Trencher - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019 - Elsevier
While scholars critique the first-generation of the corporate smart city for failing to tackle people-oriented agendas and authentically respond to the needs of residents, many point to …
Highlights•ULL are sites to design, test and learn from innovation in real time.•ULL are proliferating rapidly while our understanding of their nature and purpose is still evolving.•We …
F Cugurullo - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, the world has seen the emergence of a number of urban projects which, under the banner of experimentation, have promoted alternative models of city-making …
Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to …
Test beds and living labs have emerged as a prominent approach to foster innovation across geographical regions and technical domains. They feed on the popular “grand …
This paper explores a global trend where universities are collaborating with government, industry and civil society to advance the sustainable transformation of a specific …