Enabling urban systems transformations: co-developing national and local strategiesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 Số 1
Robert J. Webb, Tayanah O’Donnell, Kate Auty, Xuemei Bai, Guy Barnett, Robert Costanza, Jago Dodson, Peter Newman, Peter W. Newton, Eleanor Robson, Chris Ryan, Mark S. Smith
AbstractTransformative urban development is urgent to achieve future sustainable development and wellbeing. Transformation can benefit from shared and cumulative learning on strategies to guide urban development across local to national scales, while also reflecting the complex emergent nature of urban systems, and the need for context-specific and place-based solu...... hiện toàn bộ
The ‘New Urban Science’: towards the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary pursuit of sustainable transformationsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 1-13 - 2021
Andrew Karvonen, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Pawel Herman, Karl Johansson, Hedvig Kjellström, Marco Molinari, Mikael Skoglund
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 effectively. Proponents of the New Urban Science emphasise urban data analytics and modelling as a means to develop novel insights on how cities function. However, there are multiple opportunit...... hiện toàn bộ
Positive inertia and proactive influencing towards sustainability: systems analysis of a frontrunner citySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 1 - Trang 1-27 - 2019
Sigourney Irvine, Xuemei Bai
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 lead the way towards sustainability transition, and often become the beacon for others to follow. However, the nature and the internal dynamics that make a city a frontrunner, or the role of...... hiện toàn bộ
A bibliometric analysis of urban food securitySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 1-22 - 2022
Bruce Frayne, Truzaar Dordi, Cameron McCordic, Naomi Sunu, Clare Williamson
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. The evolution of this field, as revealed by its scholarly writings, provides an important vantage point for understanding both the dynamic transformation of the urban food system as well as the...... hiện toàn bộ
Platform economy: (dis-) embeddedness processes in urban spacesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 1-13 - 2021
Sina Hardaker
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 is organized. Yet, despite their influential and far-reaching role in shaping our economic as well as sociocultural world, our understanding of their embeddedness, namely how their activitie...... hiện toàn bộ
Food systems and rural-urban linkages in African secondary citiesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 1-23 - 2022
Andrew Zimmer, Zack Guido, Julia Davies, Nupur Joshi, Allan Chilenga, Tom Evans
Urban populations globally are expected to increase by approximately 2.5 billion by 2050. Much of this growth is taking place in African cities, where about 40% of Africans live in urban areas with populations of less than 250,000. In many of these cities, rapid urban growth has outpaced economic and social development, resulting in high levels of urban poverty and widespread food insecurity. As o...... hiện toàn bộ
Understanding how city networks are leveraging climate action: experimentation through C40Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 1-23 - 2020
Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen, Kathryn Davidson, Lars Coenen
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 climate governance that encourage the implementation of experiments such as testing new solutions regarding sustainable transport. While city networks are gaining momentum and influence as effectiv...... hiện toàn bộ
City residents, scientists and policy-makers: power in co-producing knowledgeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 1-22 - 2021
Kareem Buyana, Jacqueline Walubwa, Paul Mukwaya, Shuaib Lwasa, Samuel Owuor
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 approaches by holding potential for solution-oriented research through sustained relationships with actors across disciplines and sectors. Although there is growing recognition that power shapes int...... hiện toàn bộ
Experimentation or projectification of urban change? A critical appraisal and three steps forwardSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 1-17 - 2021
Jonas Torrens, Timo von Wirth
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 forms (e.g. urban living laboratories, pilots, trials, experimental districts) are becoming commonplace, addressing ambitious goals for smartness, circularity, and liveability. Academically, t...... hiện toàn bộ