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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 ...

Authors: Jordi Peris and Marga Bosch

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:7

Content type: Research Published on: 8 July 2020
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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...

Authors: Henrietta Palmer, Merritt Polk, David Simon and Stina Hansson

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:6

Content type: Frontiers paper Published on: 18 June 2020
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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...

Authors: Isabel Fróes and Malene Køster Lasthein

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:5

Content type: Research Published on: 3 June 2020
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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...

Authors: Madeleine Galvin and Anne Maassen

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:4

Content type: Focus point Published on: 15 May 2020
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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...

Authors: David P. M. Lam, Berta Martín-López, Arnim Wiek, Elena M. Bennett, Niki Frantzeskaki, Andra I. Horcea-Milcu and Daniel J. Lang

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:3

Content type: Review Published on: 14 May 2020
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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...

Authors: Philipp Späth and Jörg Knieling

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:2

Content type: Research Published on: 31 January 2020
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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 ...

Authors: América Bendito

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:1

Content type: Perspective Published on: 10 January 2020
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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...

Authors: Karlijn Schipper, Giorgia Silvestri, Julia M. Wittmayer, Jenifer B. Isoke and Robinah Kulabako

Citation: Urban Transformations 2019 1:4

Content type: Perspective Published on: 18 November 2019
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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...

Authors: Paul Szabo-Müller

Citation: Urban Transformations 2019 1:3

Content type: Research Published on: 18 November 2019
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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...

Authors: Nadja Kabisch

Citation: Urban Transformations 2019 1:2

Content type: Perspective Published on: 18 November 2019
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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...

Authors: Sigourney Irvine and Xuemei Bai

Citation: Urban Transformations 2019 1:1

Content type: Research Published on: 18 November 2019
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Articles

The paradox of planning for transformation: the case of the integrated sustainable urban development strategy in València (Spain)

Evaluative and enabling infrastructures: supporting the ability of urban co-production processes to contribute to societal change

Co-creating sustainable urban metabolism towards healthier cities

Connecting formal and informal spaces: a long-term and multi-level view of Medellín’s Metrocable

Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes

How EU-funded Smart City experiments influence modes of planning for mobility: observations from Hamburg

Grounding urban resilience through transdisciplinary risk mapping

Handle with care: navigating the pluriformity of power to enable actionable knowledge for transitions in informal settlements in the global south

Exploring the potential for “urban air quality transition management” in the EU – lessons from the City of Aachen (Germany)

Transformation of urban brownfields through co-creation: the multi-functional Lene-Voigt Park in Leipzig as a case in point

Positive inertia and proactive influencing towards sustainability: systems analysis of a frontrunner city

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