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Citation: Urban Transformations 2022 4:10
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A bibliometric analysis of urban food security
The study of urban food security has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. This evolution has been punctuated, and catalyzed, by insights into the dynamic transformation of food systems in cities. Th...
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Anticipating experimentation as the ‘the new normal’ through urban living labs 2.0: lessons learnt by JPI Urban Europe
Urban living labs (ULLs) can be an important way to approach multi-stakeholder co-creation with regard to urban transitions and transformations. They have become a common type of co-creative experimentation, o...
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Enhancing the contribution of urban living labs to sustainability transformations: towards a meta-lab approach
The contribution of the first generation of urban living labs (ULLs) to system-wide sustainability transformations is thus far less than expected. A possible explanation for this can be found in the focus of m...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2022 4:7 -
Deliberating the knowledge politics of smart urbanism
Citation: Urban Transformations 2022 4:6 -
Feminist urban living labs and social sustainability: lessons from Sweden
A debate about emerging models of urban living labs (ULLs) 2.0 is taking place in the literature, highlighting the importance of social aspects. The aim of this paper is to examine feminist ULLs as a potential...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2022 4:5 -
Beyond the smart city: a typology of platform urbanism
Platform urbanism has emerged in recent years as an area of research into the ways in which digital platforms are increasingly central to the governance, economy, experience, and understanding of the city. In ...
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Platform placemaking and the digital urban culture of Airbnbification
This paper develops the notion of “platform placemaking”, describing how platforms mobilize user data to remake urban spatial imaginaries in their interests. Using Airbnb as a case, the paper studies the digit...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2022 4:3 -
Enabling citizens’ Right to the Smart City through the co-creation of digital platforms
In response to increasingly deterministic and all-encompassing implementation of smart city technologies, scholars and activists plea for policies and initiatives to support citizens’ democratic ‘Right to the ...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2022 4:2 -
Thwarted visions of change: power and demographics in repair cafes and urban sustainability transitions
Sustainability initiatives, such as Repair Cafes, are sites of niche innovations with the potential to contribute to an urban sustainability transition. Using the multi-level perspective as a framework, we exp...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2022 4:1 -
Platform economy: (dis-) embeddedness processes in urban spaces
Digital platforms, understood as multi-sided matchmakers, have amassed huge power, reimagining the role of consumers, producers, and even ownership. They increasingly dictate the way the economy and urban life...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:12 -
Urban Living Labs: how to enable inclusive transdisciplinary research?
The Urban Living Lab (ULL) approach has the potential to create enabling environments for social learning and to be a successful arena for innovative local collaboration in knowledge co-creation and experimen...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:11 -
Centering social-technical relations in studying platform urbanism: intersectionality for just futures in European cities
Platform-based services are rapidly transforming urban work, lives and spaces around the world. The rise of platforms dependent on largely expendable labour relations, with significant migrant involvement, mus...
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The ‘New Urban Science’: towards the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary pursuit of sustainable transformations
Digitalisation is an increasingly important driver of urban development. The ‘New Urban Science’ is one particular approach to urban digitalisation that promises new ways of knowing and managing cities more ef...
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Experimentation or projectification of urban change? A critical appraisal and three steps forward
Urban experimentation has proliferated in recent years as a response to sustainability challenges and renewed pressures on urban governance. In many European cities, diverse and rapidly changing experimental f...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:8 -
An assessment framework for safeguarding public values on mobility platforms
Urbanites increasingly turn to digital mobility platforms to make use of means of transportation and to plan and book journeys. While these platforms can contribute to making urban travel more sustainable and ...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:7 -
Tilted platforms: rental housing technology and the rise of urban big data oligopolies
This article interprets emerging scholarship on rental housing platforms—particularly the most well-known and used short- and long-term rental housing platforms—and considers how the technological processes co...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:6 -
Urban safety, community healing & gun violence reduction: the advance peace model
Cities around the world continue to grapple with safety, security and the role for law enforcement in reducing gun crime. Recent calls for alternatives to militarized policing in cities and addressing racism i...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:5 -
Circulating value: convergences of datafication, financialization, and urbanization
Much scholarship has revealed the interrelationships of urbanization and financialization of cities in the past half century. However, these twin processes are modulating with the advent and application of dig...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:4 -
The legal street: a scarcity approach to urban open space in mobility transitions
An urban mobility transition requires a transition in space allocation, since most mobility modes are dependent on urban open space for circulation and the storage of vehicles. Despite increasing attention to ...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:3 -
Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities
The narrative of ‘urban transformations’ epitomises the hope that cities provide rich opportunities for contributing to local and global sustainability and resilience. Urban transformation research is developi...
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City residents, scientists and policy-makers: power in co-producing knowledge
The need to merge scientific with societal knowledge in addressing global sustainability challenges has deepened research on a methodology known as co-producing knowledge. It differs from participatory approac...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:1 -
Planning for change: Transformation labs for an alternative food system in Cape Town, South Africa
There has been a call for more participatory processes to feed into urban planning for more resilient food systems. This paper describes a process of knowledge co-production for transforming towards an alterna...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:13 -
Understanding how city networks are leveraging climate action: experimentation through C40
Climate change is one of the most challenging environmental and social problems for contemporary urban planning. In response to this phenomenon, city networks have emerged as new configurations of urban climat...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:12 -
Spatiotemporal perspectives on urban energy transitions: a comparative study of three cities in China
This paper develops an integrated framework to study the socio-spatial and temporal dimensions of urban energy transitions to investigate the development and spread of solar energy technologies in urban China....
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:11 -
Joint programming for urban transformations: the making of the JPI Urban Europe Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
The Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe, a transnational initiative by European countries in partnership with the European Union (EU) to tackle the challenge of sustainable urbanisation by programm...
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Shifting landscapes of coastal flood risk: environmental (in)justice of urban change, sea level rise, and differential vulnerability in New York City
Climate-driven changes in coastal flood risk have enormous consequences for coastal cities. These risks intersect with unequal patterns of environmental hazards exacerbating differential vulnerability of clima...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:9 -
Considering the role of urban types in coproduced policy guidance for sustainability transitions
The imperative to massively and quickly scale sustainability transitions in urban areas globally stands in tension with the sustained commitments required of grounded coproduction efforts that seek to deliver ...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:8 -
The paradox of planning for transformation: the case of the integrated sustainable urban development strategy in València (Spain)
Urban transformation towards sustainability requires deep systemic change in economic, social, environmental, cultural, organisational, governmental, and physical terms. Considering this challenge, this paper ...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:7 -
Evaluative and enabling infrastructures: supporting the ability of urban co-production processes to contribute to societal change
As widely attested in the literature, the evaluation of co-production is complex and unsuited to the use of conventional quality, monitoring and evaluation indicators. This reflects the uncertainties, co-contr...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:6 -
Co-creating sustainable urban metabolism towards healthier cities
In this article, we initially present and discuss the existing concepts covering sustainable and healthy cities, and urban metabolism infrastructure. The urban metabolism infrastructure distributes a wide rang...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:5 -
Connecting formal and informal spaces: a long-term and multi-level view of Medellín’s Metrocable
The inauguration of Medellín, Colombia’s aerial cable car in 2004, is widely seen as a key turning point in reversing the city’s historical reputation for drug and gang-related crimes towards greater inclusive...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:4 -
Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes
Amplifying the impact of sustainability initiatives to foster transformations in urban and rural contexts, has received increasing attention in resilience, social innovation, and sustainability transitions res...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:3 -
How EU-funded Smart City experiments influence modes of planning for mobility: observations from Hamburg
Hamburg participates in the EU-funded research and development project mySMARTlife (mSL) with experiments involving smart city technologies, among others in the field of transportation infrastructure. These ex...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:2 -
Grounding urban resilience through transdisciplinary risk mapping
During 2015, three key global agreements were established which converged on enhancing resilience as an overall strategy towards sustainable development. This paper builds an argument and a structured process ...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:1 -
Handle with care: navigating the pluriformity of power to enable actionable knowledge for transitions in informal settlements in the global south
This Perspective positions urban challenges in informal settlements in the Global South as a question of how to coproduce actionable knowledge for sustainability transitions, and how this relates to power issu...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2019 1:4 -
Exploring the potential for “urban air quality transition management” in the EU – lessons from the City of Aachen (Germany)
Air pollution is one of the most important global sustainability and health challenges. In response to this, the European Union (EU) initiated with its Directive 2008/50/EC a new era of (urban) air quality man...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2019 1:3 -
Transformation of urban brownfields through co-creation: the multi-functional Lene-Voigt Park in Leipzig as a case in point
With pressure from urbanisation and climate change, urban planning is challenged by pursuing the vision of a sustainable, resilient and healthy city while maintaining existing and developing new urban green sp...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2019 1:2 -
Positive inertia and proactive influencing towards sustainability: systems analysis of a frontrunner city
With an increasingly urban population, cities have an important role to play in global environmental sustainability. Cities engaged in pioneering and ongoing sustainability experimentation—the frontrunners—can...
Citation: Urban Transformations 2019 1:1
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