Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Introduction -- Contributions of the Book -- Contributing to Sustainability Transition Studies -- Explaining the Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Book Architecture and Chapter Contributions -- Part I - Characteristics and Distinctiveness of Urban Transitions -- Part II - Experimentation and Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Part III - Politics of Urban Space and of Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Cities As Transitionscapes: The New Pathway for Sustainability Transitions Studies -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I: Characteristics and Distinctiveness of Urban Transitions -- Chapter 2: Anchoring Global Networks in Urban Niches -- Introduction -- Urban Actors as Intermediaries between Local Niches and Global Networks -- Insights from Economic Geography: Endogenous and Exogenous Transition Dynamics -- Analytical Framework: the Anchoring of Global Innovation System Resources -- On-site Water Recycling As an Empirical Case and Methodological Approach -- Methods -- The Emergence of On-site Water Recycling in Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai -- OST in Beijing -- 1990-2000: Ost is Established in an Internationalized Hotel Niche -- 2000-2007: Localized System-Building in a Residential Building Niche -- 2007-Today: Beijing's Ost Niche Begins Scaling-up -- OST in Shanghai -- OST in Xi'an -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Understanding the Policy Realities of Urban Transitions -- Introduction -- The Policy Process and Transitions -- Analytical Frame -- Context and Methods -- Results -- Strategic Lens -- Tactical Lens -- Operational Lens -- Reflexive Lens -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 4: The Governance of Transformative Change -- Introduction -- Sustainability Governance: Engagement, Fluidity, and the Potential for Accelerated Transitions -- Vancouver: Leadership, Evolution, and Potential for Development Path Transformation -- Methods -- Policies and Politics: Sustainability Innovations in the City of Vancouver -- Actors and Spheres of Influence -- Potential for Transformative Sustainability Governance -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Transitioning Complex Urban Systems -- Introduction -- Sustainability Transitions, Resilience, and the Nature of Cities: An Urban Ecology Approach -- The Ecology of New York City: The Case of Vacant Lots -- Sustainable Urban Sets: Transitioning Cities through Urban ecology -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The Role of Place-specific Dynamics in the Destabilization of the Danish Water Regime -- Introduction -- An ANT View on Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Research Design -- The Case: The Urban Transition of the Danish Water Regime -- The Context: A Destabilized Water Regime in Between Innovation of Functions and Innovation of Place -- The Emergence of the 'Place-Making Water' Framing -- The Emergence of the 'Sectorial Water' Framing -- Contested Boundaries at Fundamental Urban Junctions -- The Copenhagen Harbor Junction: The Emergence of the Urban Livability Assemblage -- The Climate-neighborhood Junction: Aligning Climate Adaptation and Livability Assemblages -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Village Communities and Social Innovation Policies in Seoul -- Introduction -- Grassroots Niches in the Urban Context -- Grassroots Innovations and Grassroots Niches -- Social Innovation and Empowerment in Cities -- Enabling Conditions for Urban Grassroots Niches.

Village Communities and Social Innovation Policies in Seoul: Case Study Approach and Methods -- Background: Village Communities in Seoul -- Civil Society Empowerment -- Reconfigured Urban Governance -- Reconfigured Urban Place -- Multiple Pathways -- Shared Expectations -- Social Learning -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: Spatialising Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Introduction -- Eco-cities and Transition -- Spatialising the Multilevel Perspective on Socio-technical transitions -- Space and Socio-Technical Transitions: Tianjin Eco-city as an Urban Niche -- Tianjin Eco-city: The International Scale -- The Bohai Rim and the Regional Scale -- The City Scale: Tianjin Municipality -- Conclusion: Space, Scale and the Multilevel Perspective -- References -- Interlude -- Chapter 9: Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Introduction -- Characteristics of Urban Spaces and Implications for Institutional Change -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part II: Experimentation and Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Chapter 10: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Waste-to-energy Technologies in Berlin's Infrastructure History -- Introduction -- Conceptualising Time and Space in Socio-technical Research -- Time -- Space -- Waste-to-energy Technologies in Berlin -- Explaining the Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Waste-to-energy Technologies -- Reasons for Emergence -- Reasons for Disappearance -- Reasons for Re-emergence Today -- Reflections -- Understanding the Transitional -- Understanding the Urban -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: The Spatial Complexity of Sustainability Transitions in the 'cities of the East' -- Introduction -- Spatial Complexity and Transitions -- The Scalar Origins of Urban Unsustainability in the East -- A Networked Response through the Multilateral 'Climate Aid' Network -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Bibliography -- Chapter 12: From Building Small Urban Spaces for a Car-Free Life to Challenging the global Regime of Automobility -- Introduction -- Urban Niches for the Transition of the Mobility System -- The Car-Free Settlement in Vienna -- A Short History of the "Model Car-Free Housing Project" in Vienna -- Institutional Innovation in the Viennese Case -- Effects of the Viennese Car-Free Housing Project -- Car-Free Living in the "Model District Vauban" -- How the Vauban District Became a "Niche" for Car-Free Living -- Institutional Innovation in Vauban -- Effects of the Local Niche for Car-Free Living -- Case Comparison and Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13: Multiple Transitions -- Introduction -- Energy Use and Deprivation among Transient Urban Populations -- Researching Developed-World Energy Poverty in the Context of Sustainability Transitions -- Challenging the Canon: Energy Poverty among Young Urban Adults -- Concluding Thoughts -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Chapter 14: Worth the Trouble?! -- Introduction -- Evaluative Scheme and Design Guidelines for Urban Sustainability Transition Labs -- The Urban Sustainability Transition Lab in Phoenix -- Overview -- Revitalizing Public Spaces for the Public Good in Phoenix -- Discussion - Worth the Trouble? -- Recommendations -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15: Change and Persistency -- Introduction -- Approach and Research Objectives -- Research Design - A Mix of Methods to Empirically and Conceptually Capture Emerging Patterns of Urban Transitions -- How Did the Socio-Ecological System of the City and Its Environment Change since 1990? -- Which Predominant Qualities of Change and Persistency Do We Find over this Period of 25 Years? -- How Can We Detect Changes and Persistencies in Space? What are Meaningful Indicators? -- Demographic Change.

Socio-Spatial Differentiation -- Housing Market -- Economy and Labour Market -- Land Use -- Environmental Pollution -- Conclusions: To What Extent Can We Speak of a Leipzig Case of Transition, and What Are Its Sustainability Transition Potentials? -- Note -- References -- Interlude -- Chapter 16: A Multi-Actor Perspective on Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Introduction -- Introducing the Multi-Actor Perspective -- The Case-Studies from a Multi-Actor Perspective -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part III: Politics of Urban Space and of Urban Sustainability Transitions -- Chapter 17: Cities As Arenas of Low-Carbon Transitions -- Introduction -- Urban Transitions in the Making -- The Sustainability of Urban Hydropower in Graz -- Heating Futures for an Energy-Efficient Housing Stock in Freiburg -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 18: Mediators Acting in Urban Transition Processes -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework: Mediators and Navigational processes -- Carlsberg City District -- Cycle Superhighways -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 19: Flows, Infrastructures and the African Urban Transition -- Introduction -- African Urban Realities -- Overcoming the Resource Curse: The Need for Structural Transformation -- On the 'Where' of African Structural Transformation -- Frameworks for Understanding Urban Transitions -- The Sociotechnical Approach and Material Flows -- Cities as Spaces for Socio-Technical Transitions -- Multisegmented and Dysfunctional Regimes -- A Framework for Structural Transformation -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 20: Focusing on Ecosystem Services in the Multiple Social-Ecological Transitions of Lodz -- Introduction -- Lodz in Transition -- Challenges of the 21st-Century Sustainability Transition -- Balancing Greater and Inner City Development.

Balanced Perspectives on Different Urban Ecosystems.

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.

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