1st Edition
Urban Sustainability Transitions
1. Urban Sustainability Transitions: The Dynamics and Opportunities of Sustainability Transitions in Cities
Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castàn Broto, Lars Coenen and Derk Loorbach
2. Anchoring Global Networks in Urban Niches: How On-site Water Recycling Emerged in Three Chinese Cities
Christian Binz and Bernhard Truffer
3. Understanding the Policy Realities of Urban Transitions
Yvette Bettini, Tracey Arklay and Brian W. Head
4. The Governance of Transformative Change: Tracing the Pathway of the Sustainability Transition in Vancouver, Canada
Sarah Burch
5. Transitioning Complex Urban Systems: The Importance of Urban Ecology for Sustainability in New York City
Timon McPhearson and Katinka Wijsman
6. The Role of Place-specific Dynamics in the Destabilization of the Danish Water Regime: An Actor–Network View on Urban Sustainability Transitions
C. F. Fratini and J. S. Jensen
7. Village Communities and Social Innovation Policies in Seoul: Exploring the Urban Dimension of Grassroots Niches
Marc Wolfram
8 Spatialising Urban Sustainability Transitions: Eco-cities, Multilevel Perspectives and the Political Ecology of Scale in the Bohai Rim, China
Federico Caprotti and Nichola Harmer
9. Urban Sustainability Transitions: Opportunities and Challenges for Institutional ChangeLea Fuenfschilling
10. The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Waste-to-Energy Technologies in Berlin’s Infrastructure History
Timothy Moss
11. The Spatial Complexity of Sustainability Transitions in the ‘Cities of the East’
Anne Maassen
12. From Building Small Urban Spaces for a Car-free Life to Challenging the Global Regime of Automobility: Cases from Vienna and Freiburg
Philipp Spath and Michael Ornetzeder
13. Multiple Transitions: Energy Precariousness and ‘Transient’ Urban Tenants
Saska Petrova
14. Worth the Trouble?! An Evaluative Scheme for Urban Sustainability Transition Labs (USTLs) and an Application to the USTL in Phoenix, Arizona
Arnim Wiek, Braden Kay and Nigel Forrest
15. Change and Persistency: Understanding Social-ecological Transition in a Post-socialist City – the Example of Leipzig, Germany
Dagmar Haase, Annegret Haase and Dieter Rink
16. A Multi-Actor Perspective on Urban Sustainability Transitions
Flor Avelino and Julia Wittmayer
17. Cities as Arenas of Low-carbon Transitions: Friction Zones in the Negotiation of Low-carbon Futures
Harald Rohracher and Philipp Spath
18. Mediators Acting in Urban Transition Processes: Carlsberg City District and Cycle Superhighways
Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda, Anne Katrine Braagaard Harders and Morten Elle
19. Flows, Infrastructures and the African Urban Transition
Mark Swilling, Josephine Musango, Blake Robinson and Camaren Peter
20. Focusing on Ecosystem Services in the Multiple Social-ecological Transitions of Lodz
Jakub Kronenberg, Kinga Krauze and Iwona Wagner
21. The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions
Thaddeus R. Miller and Anthony M. Levenda
22. Sustainability Transitions and the City: Linking to Transition Studies and Looking Forward
John Grin, Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Casàn Broto and Lars Coenen
Biography
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.
