Urban sustainability transitions / edited by Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castán Broto, Lars Coenen, and Derk Loorbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frantzeskaki, Niki, editor, contributor.

Broto, Vanesa Castán, editor, contributor.

Coenen, Lars, editor, contributor.

Loorbach, Derk, 1975- editor, contributor.

Series:

Routledge studies in sustainability transitions

Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable urban development.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Cities and towns--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

xxii, 380 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Urban sustainability transitions : the dynamics and opportunities of sustainability transitions in cities / Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castan Broto, Lars Coenen and Derk Loorbach

Anchoring global networks in urban niches : how on-site water recycling emerged in three Chinese cities / Christian Binz and Bernhard Truffer

Understanding the policy realities of urban transitions / Yvette Bettini, Tracey Arklay, and Brian W. Head

The governance of transformative change : tracing the pathway of the sustainability transition in Vancouver, Canada / Sarah Burch

Transitioning complex urban systems : the importance of urban ecology for sustainability in New York City / Timon McPhearson and Katinka Wijsman

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

Village communities and social innovation policies in Seoul : exploring the urban dimension of grassroots niches / Marc Wolfram

Spatialising urban sustainability transitions : eco-cities, multilevel perspectives and the political ecology of scale in the Bohai Rim, China / Federico Caprotti and Nichola Harmer

Urban sustainability transitions : opportunities and challenges for institutional change / Lea Fuenfschilling

The rise, fall and resurrection of waste-to-energy technologies in Berlin's infrastructure history / Timothy Moss

The spatial complexity of sustainability transitions in the cities of the East / Anne Maassen

From building small urban spaces for a car-free life to challenging the global regime of automobility : cases from Vienna and Freiburg / Philipp Späth and Michael Ornetzeder

Multiple transitions : energy precariousness and "transient" urban tenants / Saska Petrova

Worth the trouble?! : an evaluative scheme for urban sustainability transition labs (USTL) and an application to the ustl in Phoenix, Arizona / Arnim Wiek, Braden Kay and Nigel Forrest

Change and persistency : understanding social-ecological transition in a post-socialist city : the example of Leipzig, Germany / Dagmar Haase, Annegret Haase and Dieter Rink

A multi-actor perspective on urban sustainability transitions / Flor Avelino and Julia Wittmayer

Cities as arenas of low-carbon transitions : friction zones in the negotiation of low-carbon futures / Harald Rohracher and Philipp Späth

Mediators acting in urban transition processes : Carlsberg City district and super cycle highways / Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda, Anne Katrine Braagaard Harders and Morten Elle

Flows, infrastructures and the African urban transition / Mark Swilling, Josephine Musango, Blake Robinson and Camaren Peter

Focusing on ecosystem services in the multiple social-ecological transitions of Lodz / Jakub Kronenberg, Kinga Krauze and Iwona Wagner

The politics of urban sustainability transitions / Thaddeus R. Miller and Anthony M. Levenda

Sustainability transitions and the city : linking to transition studies and looking forward / John Grin, Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castán Broto and Lars Coenen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415784184

0415784182

OCLC:

958097533