Table 2 Enabling Urban Systems Transformation (EUST) framework, and underpinning capacities
From: Enabling urban systems transformations: co-developing national and local strategies
Four enablers (x) and underpinning capacities (x.x) (note [Cx] indicates closest capacity match in Wolfram (2016) framework) | |||
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1. Co-evolutionary design and navigation – ‘The voice of intent’ | 2. Engagement between decision-makers, stakeholders and communities – ‘The voice of experience, behaviours and values’ | 3. Aligned institutions and governance – ‘The voice of decision-making’ | 4. Knowledge co-production, usage and learning – ‘The voice of expertise’ |
1.1. Co-evolutionary intent, design and navigation 1.2. Shared visioning, scenarios, goal-setting, pathways, planning and performance [C5 Sustainability foresight] 1.3. Experimentation, innovation, and cessation, recognising the evolutionary phases of introducing the new and ceasing the outdated [C6 Experiments, plus innovation and exnovation] | 2.1. Engagement between decision-makers and diverse stakeholders and communities, for mutual understanding, appreciation, negotiation and collaboration [C9 Agency levels, C10 Scale levels] 2.2. Engagement approaches to be tailored to the context 2.3. Use of boundary spanning intermediaries (e.g. specific issue-based, researchers, consultants) | 3.1. Aligned institutions and coherent policies, plans, resource allocations, finance and decisions across scales, sectors and systems [C10 Scale levels] 3.2. Inclusive, transparent and community-centred formal and informal urban institutions and governance [C1 Inclusive and multiform urban governance, C9 Agency levels] 3.3. Critical urban planning capabilities 3.4. Empowered cities, settlements, communities of practice, community groups and individuals [C3 Empowered communities of practice] 3.5. Institutionally supported innovation and technology facilitation, learning embedding and acceleration [C7 Innovation embedding] 3.6. Transformative formal and informal leadership [C2 Transformative leadership] | 4.1. Co-produced, shared and used knowledge 4.2. Diverse knowledge sources and disciplines 4.3. Urban systems awareness, knowledge and cumulative understanding (see KUST framework) [C4 System(s) awareness] 4.4. Policy-practice-research capabilities and collaborations 4.5. Reflexivity and learning [C8 Reflexivity and learning] |