1st Edition
Urban Living Labs Experimenting with City Futures
Edited By Simon Marvin, Harriet Bulkeley, Lindsay Mai, Kes McCormick, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan
Copyright 2018
278 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
278 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
278 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. The aim of this volume is to examine, inform and advance the governance... Read more
- Introduction
- Urban Living Labs: Catalysing Low Carbon and Sustainable Cities in Europe? Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Kes McCormick and James Evans
- Putting urban experiments into context: Integrating Urban Living Labs and city-regional priorities. Mike Hodson, James Evans and Gabriele Schliwa
- Urban living labs for the smart grid: Experimentation, governmentality, and urban energy transitions Anthony M. Levenda
- Smart City Construction: towards an analytical framework for urban living labs
- Intermediation and learning in Stellenbosch’s Urban Living Lab Megan Davies and Mark Swilling
- Bringing Urban Living Labs to Communities: Enabling processes of transformation Janice Astbury and Harriet Bulkeley
- HomeLabs: Domestic living laboratories under conditions of austerity Anna Davies
- Urban living labs, ’smart’ innovation and the realities of every day access to energy Vanesa Castán Broto
- 15-years and still living: The Basel Pilot Region laboratory and Switzerland’s pursuit of a 2000-Watt Society Gregory Trencher, Achim Geissler, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
- Agency, space, and partnerships: Exploring key dimensions of Urban Living Labs in Vancouver, Canada Sarah Burch, Alex Graham and Carrie Mitchell
- Placing sustainability in communities: emerging urban living labs in China Qianqing Mai
- The importance of place for urban transition experiments: Understanding the embeddedness of urban living labs Frank van Steenbergen and Niki Frantzeskaki
- Conclusion
Design of ULL
Practices of ULL
Processes of ULL
Index
Biography
Simon Marvin is Director of the Urban Institute and Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK
Harriet Bulkeley is Professor of Geography at Durham University, UK.
Lindsay Mai is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.
Kes McCormick is an Associate Professor and Assistant Head at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden.
Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is an Assistant Professor at Lund University, Sweden.
