Conflicts in Urban Future-Making : Governance, Institutions, and Transformative Change.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grubbauer, Monika.

Contributor:

Manganelli, Alessandra.

Volont, Louis.

Arndt, Maria.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Grubbauer Monika : Monika Grubbauer, Prof. Dr., ist Professorin für Geschichte und Theorie der Stadt an der HafenCity Universität Hamburg.

Summary:

Under conditions of heightened uncertainty, cities face enormous challenges in responding to contemporary crises. The contributors to this volume explore the conflictual dynamics that arise when urban futures are imagined, negotiated, and materialized. Through the lens of urban future-making, they provide a timely analysis of the conflicts that shape planning projects, architectural interventions, and new experiments in the built environment. Their analyses show how urban future-making is conditioned by conflicting governance arrangements, actor constellations, and power dynamics – offering rich insight into the critical role of professionals as key agents of urban transformation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction to the volume

Urban Future-Making as a Lens

2. Understanding conflicts in urban future-making

3. Understanding professional agency in urban future-making

Contested Governance and Policy-Making

4. Mayors’ net-zero pledges at COP26

5. Mapping conflicts of prioritization

6. Inclusive urban energy futures?

7. Towards the machine-readable city?

Contrasting Cultures and Institutions

8. Mapping destabilization journeys in urban mobility systems

9. Contested mobilities and the role of conflict in making sustainable cities

10. Navigating conflictual cooperation

11. Uneven coastal geographies

Grounding Conflicts in Everyday Practices

12. Mobilizing the meaning of greening in a conflicted city

13. Driving change?

14. Spotting tensions in urban greening experiments

Appendix

List of contributors

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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ISBN:

9783839474679

3839474671

OCLC:

1482268715