Co-­creating Sustainable Urban Futures

It is the first book that comprehensively yet concisely introduces the transition management approach in the urban context with a specific focus on enabling readers to understand and co-create urban sustainability transitions

A variety of case studies across the world offer rich examples for designing transition management interventions in different contexts

The book provides critical reflections on the implications, opportunities and challenges for designing and applying transition management in and for cities

Contenu
Forward - My experience with Transition Management.- Transition management in and for cities: introducing a new governance approach to address urban challenges.- Understanding the urban context and its challenges.- Introducing sustainability transitions' thinking in urban contexts.- Transition Management: Guiding Principles and Applications. Urban Planning and Transition Management: Rationalities, instruments and dialectics.- Empowering actors in transition management in and for cities.- "Starting up Transition Management: A closer view on the systems analysis and how it initiated transformative thinking in Ghent and Aberdeen cities".- Transition Management in urban neighbourhoods: The case of Carnisse, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.- 9. A German experience: the challenges of mediating 'ideal-type' Transition Management in Ludwigsburg.- 10. Transition Management for local sustainability - A case study from La Botija protected area, San Marcos de Colón, Honduras.- 11. Translating transitions thinking and transition management into the city planning world.- Transition Management in Urban China: Co-creation of New Homes or a Monopoly Game?- 13. A Transition Management Approach for Shrinking Cities in the United States.- Context-driven Transition Management as a necessary vehicle for sustainable urban futures in Suriname.- Urban Transition Management as a democratic practice? The case of Rotterdam's waterfront regeneration.So what? Transition management as a transformative approach to support governance capacities of cities.- Appendix - Exercises and Exam Questions for Lecturers using this book. <p