Fig. 1

Approach for Juxtaposing Urban Air Quality Management with Urban Transition Management. Figure 1 outlines the approach for juxtaposing Urban Air Quality Management (UQAM) with Urban Transition Management (UTM). It highlights that UAQM and UTAM are both process frameworks of urban planning and presents criteria and features that are used for their juxtaposition. This mainly takes place in the case study of UAQM in the EU and the City of Aachen. Therefore, the juxtaposition departs from the context specificities in Aachen. Next, an analysis of UAQM in Aachen is done that is embedded in the EU context and structured along the criteria (governance, instruments, and techniques) and using the related features. Then, a description of discourses and outcomes of UAQM in Aachen is used in order to further investigate whether and how a transformative process has taken place so far. Finally, the discussion juxtaposes UAQM and UTM by a reflection of the case studies’ findings on UAQM in relation to UTM. Source: Author, based on Wolfram 2018