Journal articles: 'Urban sustainability transition experiments'

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Newton, Caroline. "The Role of Government Initiated Urban Planning Experiments in Transition Processes and Their Contribution to Change at the Regime Level." Sustainability 13, no. 5 (February 24, 2021): 2419. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052419.

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Sustainable urban (planning) experiments play a crucial role in transitions and are tangible ways to contribute to innovation and change in the long run. This paper discusses how urban experiments contribute to sustainability transitions by explicitly looking at an urban experiment’s capability to influence the regime level. The consequences of spatial inertia and political actors’ involvement are two understudied aspects concerning urban experiments. The paper aims to introduce these two understudied aspects and suggests further research on both in current urban experimentation practices. First, the paper suggests spatial embeddedness as a relevant explanatory factor. Experiments that alter spatial structures or realize physical interventions on a neighborhood scale can anchor innovations in space. In doing so, they increase their sustainability in the long run. Secondly, the article contributes to the literature on institutions and politics in urban experiments. The article uses a literature study and a case to illustrate both points.

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Roebke, Lukas, Markus Grillitsch, and Lars Coenen. "Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 45 (December 2022): 214–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.10.007.

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Dijk, Marc, Joop de Kraker, and Anique Hommels. "Anticipating Constraints on Upscaling from Urban Innovation Experiments." Sustainability 10, no. 8 (August 7, 2018): 2796. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10082796.

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The upscaling of innovations from urban experiments is often assumed to be relatively easy, as if they can simply be ‘rolled out’. In practice, however, upscaling is usually constrained by a range of factors in the wider context of the innovation, typically a context of interconnected and ‘obdurate’ urban socio-technical networks and institutions. Innovation studies have used the notion of upscaling from experiments most explicitly in studies of transitions, especially of strategic niche management (SNM) and transition management (TM). However, these studies have focused more on niche internal dynamics and future visions, respectively, and much less on constraints in the present socio-institutional context. This paper offers a conceptual contribution on ‘constraints on upscaling’, elaborating on how upscaling can be more effective when constraints on upscaling are first identified in retrospective systems analysis, and then anticipated in the design of urban experiments. Our focus is on innovation in urban mobility systems. After a conceptualization of ‘constraints on upscaling’, based on a review of the literature of transition, social innovation, geography and science & technology studies, we present a retrospective analysis of urban mobility in Maastricht (NL) in which these interrelated constraints can be recognized. Further, we analyze a pilot on electric bus mobility which was relatively successful in anticipating future constraints. Based on this, we offer some guidelines on how to anticipate upscaling in the design of urban experiments with socio-technical innovations.

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Carvalho Machado, Rafael, and Sieglinde Kindl Da Cunha. "From urban waste to urban farmers: Can we close the agriculture loop within the city bounds?" Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy 40, no. 3 (December 30, 2021): 306–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734242x211068248.

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As urbanisation intensifies in Brazilian cities, life quality in urban centres becomes a challenge for policymakers, and transitioning urban systems to sustainability is required. Circular economy concepts may contribute to face them, especially those owing to municipal solid waste (MSW) management. Curitiba, a Brazilian municipality known for its innovative initiatives towards sustainability. Despite a long tradition in recycling inert waste, MSW system struggles to promote composting even considering a decade in force national law. Decentralised composting through the Urban Agriculture Program (UAP) is the city’s strategy to tackle this struggle. This strategy faces difficulties as, even if urban agriculture facilities seem to be a promising context, closing the agricultural loop within the city bounds was not possible in the 24 urban farmers communities trained in composting techniques. The literature has shown difficulties in government experiments to promote practices in the long run and several experiences in Brazil are already described. This study reveals cultural barriers that influence adoption of domestic composting, by following a secondary data review on past experiences with interviewing and observing participatively urban farms communities. From the fieldwork, cultural perspectives from four different relevant actor roles in the UAP were elaborated and conflicts between them revealed cultural barriers hindering composting practices adoption. Recommendations based on these barriers argue for bottom-up approaches for transition experiments and recognising the sense material and technical support makes to practitioners.

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Beukers, Els, and Luca Bertolini. "Learning for transitions: An experiential learning strategy for urban experiments." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 40 (September 2021): 395–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.09.004.

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Neumann, Veronica Alejandra, and Jochen Hack. "A Methodology of Policy Assessment at the Municipal Level: Costa Rica´s Readiness for the Implementation of Nature-Based-Solutions for Urban Stormwater Management." Sustainability 12, no. 1 (December 26, 2019): 230. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12010230.

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Nature-based-solutions (NBS) pursue a combination of economic, social, and environmental benefits that can meet municipal goals on stormwater and rapid urbanization problems. However, NBS have fallen behind in reaching to the political and legal framework, and with this, to a policy mix for urban stormwater sustainability. When looking closer at NBS, it becomes evident that they are loaded with many barriers, including institutional and political ones, as well as those that exist in the urban area social context. These barriers are also deepened by the lack of policy guidelines and few demonstration projects. In this respect, this paper combines the concepts of urban experiments and the policy feedback cycle (PFC) into a singular assessment tool. It´s goal is to assess Costa Rica’s municipal readiness in the implementation of NBS within the context of policy design and implementation. Therefore, this paper focusses on the first two stages of the PFC of an existing urban experiment to extract its policy insights for the successful replication of NBS projects. This novel method aims to contribute to the ongoing debate with respect to the ability of experimentation to prompt scalability and transferability of results. Hence, the New York City Green Infrastructure plan is considered as an urban experiment that promotes sustainable policy initiatives; while the PFC can identify and (re)formulate these policies initiatives and barriers into an adaptable policy guideline. Results indicate that sustainability policies at the municipal level should incorporate incentive mechanisms policies on (i) community involvement and communication; and (ii) transdisciplinary knowledge transfer between specialists and stakeholders. Finally, this paper suggests the inter-municipal cross-institutional collaboration and the recognition of external trigger events to incentivize a sustainable urban transition.

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Feng, Yuan, Ying Li, Changfei Nie, and Zhi Chen. "Can an Energy Transition Strategy Induce Urban Green Innovation? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China." Sustainability 16, no. 8 (April 13, 2024): 3263. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16083263.

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Green innovation is a new driving force to promote green and low-carbon development. Whether an energy transition strategy can induce green innovation is an important question that has not been clearly answered. With the help of panel data from 281 cities in China during 2007–2021, this study considers China’s new energy exemplary city policy as a quasi-natural experiment and conducts a difference-in-differences model to explore the effects and mechanisms of energy transition strategy on urban green innovation. The results show that a new energy exemplary city effectively induces urban green innovation, with mediating mechanisms of increasing government financial support, promoting human capital agglomeration, and improving energy efficiency. The moderating mechanisms test reveals that environmental regulation and intellectual property protection play a positive moderating role in the promotion of green innovation through the new energy exemplary city policy. Heterogeneity analysis suggests that the new energy exemplary city policy has a stronger effect on promoting green innovation in eastern regions and non-resource-based cities. Our findings not only enrich our understanding of the relationship between energy transition strategy and green innovation but also provide a reference for policymakers to promote energy transition and green innovation.

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Rotondi, Carmen, Camilla Gironi, Diana Ciufo, Maria Diana, and Sabrina Lucibello. "Bioreceptive Ceramic Surfaces: Material Experimentations for Responsible Research and Design Innovation in Circular Economy Transition and “Ecological Augmentation”." Sustainability 16, no. 8 (April 11, 2024): 3208. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16083208.

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The world demands suitable design solutions to transition toward a sustainable production system. The concept of sustainability evolves with technology’s ability to understand and replicate nature’s logic. There is a growing need to move beyond punctual solutions towards more intricate and multi-stakeholder considerations, including preemptive assessments of impacts. This article discusses the outcomes of cross-disciplinary material experimentation at Saperi&Co Center, Sapienza University of Rome. This research focuses on enhancing ceramic surfaces through circular economy practices, making them receptive to microorganism colonization—known as bioreceptivity. Through an iterative and repetitive approach, inspired by Research Through Design and material experimentation, several experiments were carried out to study how the innovative use of organic waste in clay-based mixtures can promote bioreceptivity and the design of green surfaces for urban regeneration. The results advance our knowledge on the multiple parameters the designer must consider to transform inert surfaces such as ceramics into “ecological augmentation” devices. The article also aims to raise awareness of bioreceptivity as a practice to educate communities about a symbiotic relationship with nature, promote local economic development and circular production, and prompt reflection on cultural aspects arising from contemporary scientific and technological advancements in line with Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles.

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Namgung, Hyejin, Gawoo Kim, and Jin-Tae Hwang. "Putting new wine in old bottles:Merging the logic of the urban commons with Seoul's energy transition experiment." Journal of Cleaner Production 336 (February 2022): 130411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.130411.

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Casiano Flores, Cesar, Joep Crompvoets, Maria Eugenia Ibarraran Viniegra, and Megan Farrelly. "Governance Assessment of the Flood’s Infrastructure Policy in San Pedro Cholula, Mexico: Potential for a Leapfrog to Water Sensitive." Sustainability 11, no. 24 (December 13, 2019): 7144. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11247144.

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Climate change together with population growth and land-use change have increased the risk of urban floods. Urban floods cause severe damages to cities and their inhabitants, and they are expected to increase over time. Consequently, urban adaptation is required to shift from traditional infrastructure (grey) to multifunctional infrastructure (blue-green) for improved flood management. Until recently, studies on the role and adoption of blue-green infrastructure have centered around large cities in developed countries, including Melbourne and Rotterdam, among others. Meanwhile, middle-sized cities in developing countries have received less attention. According to the Urban Water Management Transition Framework (UWMTF), cities in developing countries can learn from the experiences of developed cities and leapfrog to more ‘water sensitive’ practices. Although leapfrogging is context-dependent, our understanding of factors that support leapfrogging remains embryonic. This paper contributes to the scholarly understanding of the governance factors that support and limit leapfrogging. By applying the Governance Assessment Tool through semi-structured interviews and reviewing secondary data, this research assessed the implementation of flood protection infrastructure in San Pedro Cholula, a middle size city of Mexico. This work found the most supportive quality for delivering multifunctional infrastructure, was the extent of the governance system. The governance support extent was rated as moderate-low considering the platform for change is limited to government actors, which has further reinforced traditional approaches to infrastructure. In addition, the necessary governance features of coherence, flexibility and intensity were assessed as constraining change, with flexibility being the least supportive governance factor and ultimately hindering social actors’ participation and innovation. While the contemporary governance arrangements of San Pedro Cholula are not yet conducive to promoting a leapfrog in the delivery of urban flood infrastructure, the analysis has pointed to three catalytic factors to underpin a leapfrogging situation: trans-disciplinary science; cross-sector partnerships; and, innovation experiments.

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Kološ, Ivan, Vladimíra Michalcová, and Lenka Lausová. "Numerical Analysis of Flow Around a Cylinder in Critical and Subcritical Regime." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 14, 2021): 2048. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042048.

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Modeling the wind flow around cylindrical buildings is one of the problems within urban physics. Despite the simple geometry of the cylinder, it is an interesting physical phenomenon. Partial knowledge of flow field properties can be found in the literature, but in terms of their use for practical tasks, the data are still incomplete. The authors performed a numerical analysis of the flow around the smooth cylinder in the subcritical and critical regime for Reynolds numbers in the range of Re = 2.3 × 103 to 4 × 105. Turbulent flow was solved using LES model and the numerical solution was compared with available data from experiments or standard. Analysis of the mean stream velocity showed the elongation of the core of the wake with decreasing Re. The pressure coefficient evaluation showed a big difference between its distribution in the subcritical and critical regime. In the subcritical regime, a significant increase in the minimum value and a shift of the extreme close to the axis of the cylinder is proven. The results of the drag coefficient confirm a significant decrease in the transition from subcritical to critical regime, which is indicated in the cited experiments.

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Wimbadi, Ramanditya Wimbardana, Riyanti Djalante, and Akihisa Mori. "Urban experiments with public transport for low carbon mobility transitions in cities: A systematic literature review (1990–2020)." Sustainable Cities and Society 72 (September 2021): 103023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103023.

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Vandevyvere, Han, Dirk Ahlers, and Annemie Wyckmans. "The Sense and Non-Sense of PEDs—Feeding Back Practical Experiences of Positive Energy District Demonstrators into the European PED Framework Definition Development Process." Energies 15, no. 12 (June 20, 2022): 4491. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15124491.

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This article discusses early developments of the Positive Energy District (PED) concept, both in terms of its definition and of its implementation in real world demonstrators. Based on the specific challenges for creating an operational definition for the European +CityxChange project, the feasibility of creating a PED was practically explored by identifying 4 possible subtypes that respond to varying constraints regarding the energy balance of the PED. This article provides the context and describes these 4 ambitions levels: PEDautonomous, PEDdynamic, PEDvirtual, and PrePED; and the 3 boundary modes: geographical, functional, and virtual. The work thus expands on the first general PED definitions as they were put forward in the SET-plan and by the European Commission, while allowing a better response to the specific boundary conditions of PEDs’ physical context. As such, it provides an operational, city-focused, bottom-up PED definition. The present study analyses how these efforts connect to current work being performed on the development of a European PED Framework Definition. In the latter, new elements such as context factors are introduced in order to account for the varying boundary conditions that PEDs must address, and in particular the difficulties of realising PEDs in existing and densely built-up urban areas. Hereby it can be argued that the approach with 4 subtypes is a bottom-up method of addressing the same challenges as a context factor based approach operating in a top-down manner, this time starting from the regional or national renewable energy potentials. Both approaches indeed strive towards an optimum setup of PEDs both within their geographical boundaries and in their interactions with the surrounding energy infrastructures and cities. These efforts are instrumental in helping to prevent that a PED is being regarded as a goal in se, functionally disconnected from its surroundings. There are strong arguments in favour of handling PEDs as building blocks for the broader realisation of carbon neutral cities and regions, thus contributing to the systemic change that is needed to futureproof the built environment as a whole. Without applying this integrating perspective, PEDs risk creating a sub-optimal lock-in within their sites and thus remain one-off experiments, lacking connection to the wider urban sustainability strategies that are needed to properly address today’s energy and climate emergencies. This holds even more when considering the quality-related requirements that come with sustainable urban design and governance. Therefore, this study further explores how PEDs can fully support such a deep urban sustainability transition, and what could consequently be the next steps towards successful and upscaled PED deployment.

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D'Amanzo, Micaela, María Victoria Mercado, and Carolina Ganem-Karlen. "10 preguntas de los edificios energía cero: revisión del estado del arte." Revista Hábitat Sustentable 10, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 24–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.22320/07190700.2020.10.02.02.

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Zero Energy Buildings (ZEB) promote a comprehensive view of sustainable architecture and a profound change in the way to build. Research and development in energy transition must necessarily face technological and socio-economic issues. In that line, the goal here is to offer a response to minimize the building sector’s energy and environmental impact. To this end, a review of the state of the art of the subject was carried out, where 97 scientific articles from a period comprising 2006 to 2020, considered the most pertinent, were selected. The methodology consisted of analyzing these texts based on ten questions formulated to address the subject: their origins, current status and future projections regarding energy efficiency and sustainability. The questions refer to definitions (Q1), sustainability (Q2), technologies involved (Q3), emissions (Q5), energy (Q4) (Q6) (Q7), regulations (Q8), climate change (Q9), and future projections (Q10). The work allows concluding that ZEB are integrated in a holistic way in the transformation towards a renewable and sustainable future in terms of energy solutions and, in turn, they have the potential to be implemented in different geographical and climatic positions.

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Muñoz-Sanguinetti, Claudia. "Editorial: Avanzar hacia una transición socio-ecológica justa." Revista Hábitat Sustentable 12, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 06–07. http://dx.doi.org/10.22320/07190700.2022.12.01.00.

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At a time when the planet is showing clear signs of the overload of our ecological footprint, when the demand and services of nature far exceeds its biocapacity, it is urgent to generate a turning point, as there is sufficient scientific evidence to affirm that we are approaching the dangerous limit of the point of no return.

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ROMANELLI, Mauro. "Cities and urban consumption in transition towards sustainability." Smart Cities and Regional Development (SCRD) Journal 9, no. 1 (January 18, 2025): 29–34. https://doi.org/10.25019/xnjd0409.

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Sustainable urban development is advancing through cities that aim at encouraging sustainable consumption behaviours. Cities are in transition to achieving urban sustainability, meeting the needs of communities without compromising the wealth of future generations. Cities are playing a leading role in advancing towards sustainable urban consumption, and enabling citizens as responsible consumers and agents of social change. Driving responsible urban consumption provides benefits to urban communities by ensuring a better quality of life of people within urban spaces and natural environments. The future of urban development relies on promoting styles and behaviours of responsible consumption and making healthy and environment-friendly urban spaces.

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Williams, Stephen, and John Robinson. "Measuring sustainability: An evaluation framework for sustainability transition experiments." Environmental Science & Policy 103 (January 2020): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.10.012.

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Li, Nan, Deland Chan, Quan Mao, Kevin Hsu, and Zhiyong Fu. "Urban sustainability education: Challenges and pedagogical experiments." Habitat International 71 (January 2018): 70–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2017.11.012.

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Kang, Hanna. "The Practice of Urban Transition Labs for Sustainability." Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21 12, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 1973–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.22143/hss21.12.1.139.

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Bai, Xuemei, Brian Roberts, and Jing Chen. "Urban sustainability experiments in Asia: patterns and pathways." Environmental Science & Policy 13, no. 4 (June 2010): 312–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2010.03.011.

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Peng, Yuan, Yujian Wei, and Xuemei Bai. "Scaling urban sustainability experiments: Contextualization as an innovation." Journal of Cleaner Production 227 (August 2019): 302–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.061.

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Dal-Poz, Maria Ester, Erika Cristina Francisco, Adina Paytan Paytan, Timo von Wirth, Susanne Charlesworth, and Jana Fried. "Urban living laboratories: Opportunities for modelling sustainability transitions." Open Access Government 39, no. 1 (July 10, 2023): 504–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.56367/oag-039-10465.

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Urban living laboratories: Opportunities for modelling sustainability transitions Here, a group of academics present Urban Living Laboratories to study sustainable food production systems, using systems dynamic modelling to analyse policy alternatives. Urban Living Laboratories (ULLs) have shown first promising signs of being valuable platforms for understanding transition phenomena. To address our time’s diverse grand societal challenges (like climate change and biodiversity loss), we must transition to truly sustainable systems, possibly the most significant shift facing modern civilisations. Such transitions involve coupled technological, social, economic and environmental shifts and demand transformative approaches with new forms of organisation and management.

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Rharbi, Noussaiba, and Mehmet İNCEOĞLU. "Moroccan New Green Cities, Towards a Green Urban Transition." Journal of Islamic Architecture 7, no. 2 (December 22, 2022): 296–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/jia.v7i2.17222.

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Morocco is living in a sustainable transition that touches all the fields. The urban transition seems to take a quick turn, especially after 2014, with the establishment of various eco-cities research projects, eco-neighborhoods, and the construction of green cities such as Benguerir, Bouskoura, and Ze-nata. This paper describes some research into sustainability, the parameters behind green urbanism, and the transition effects. It also explains the Moroc-can urbanism transition witnessed after colonization and the sustainability introduction to the country. This research compares two green cities, Benguerir in the south and Zenata on the Atlantic coast. Both cities are constructed by publicly owned and funded companies, providing a common ground for comparison. This paper analyses sustainability parameters target-ed by the study cases.

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Plavina, A., T. Kleiven, and I. Nilstad Pettersen. "Architectural Practice Supporting Sustainability Transitions in the Built Environment." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1122, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 012065. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1122/1/012065.

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Abstract Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the environmental and societal challenges on a global scale. This article applies concepts used in sustainability transition studies – niches and transition experiments – to architectural practice. A tentative evaluative scheme developed by Luederitz et al [1] is used in this article to analyse how transition experiments in architectural practice can be designed and performed to support sustainability transitions in the built environment. Three practice-led transition experiments addressing resource efficiency and frugality, reuse of materials, user involvement in design, self-building, etc. are analysed. The article concludes by discussing implications of using a transition experiment approach in architectural practice.

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Marshall BEng, S. "Editorial: Sustainability in transition." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning 163, no. 3 (September 2010): 93–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/udap.2010.163.3.93.

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Frandsen, Peter Christian, and Friederike Landau-Donelly. "On Top of Sustainability." Journal of Public Space 8, no. 2 (December 31, 2023): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v8i2.1658.

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This article examines the role of cultural events in Rotterdam’s urban sustainability transition by looking at the festival Rotterdamse Dakendagen [Rotterdam’s Rooftop Days]. During this week-long festival, rooftops are used by citizens and cultural groups to activate urban spaces as places of learning, exchange, and DIY urbanism, thus broadening the scope of rooftops as places for cultural sustainability. Drawing on empirical material collected via qualitative interviews, policy document analysis, and five months of participant observation, we identify three aspects that inform urban sustainability transitions via culture: (1) the (re)activation of rooftops via cultural programming, (2) institution-building that is mindful of festivals’ continuously temporary nature, and (3) the limited material, yet wide-ranging immaterial effects of urban cultural festivals that have accelerated the Rotterdam’s urban (cultural) politics of sustainability. In sum, the article argues that culture plays an important role in any investigation of urban sustainability transitions and should be considered with more conceptual nuance in the future.

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Enoguanbhor, E. C. "Assessing urban spatial patterns within the implemented urban planned areas using GIS and remote sensing data." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives 04, no. 01 (May 15, 2023): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.18801/ijmp.040123.14.

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In the developing world, including Sub-Saharan Africa, reports have indicated that urban planning as a strategic instrument has not been able to guide urban spatial patterns and this poses challenges to improving urban environmental sustainability. The current study combined a city land use plan, Geographical Information Systems, and remotely sensed data to evaluate urban spatial patterns within areas where the city plan is reported to have been implemented to support strategic actions for urban environmental sustainability. Focusing on Abuja city, Nigeria, the study deployed a supervised classification on Landsat 8 remotely sensed data to analyze spatial patterns of urban land cover types, computed transition change detections and compared the urban impervious surface to the area of land designated for urban development by the city plan. Key findings indicated that the land areas designated for urban development have not been fully developed and the transition from urban green space is the highest transition from other land cover types to urban impervious surface. The baseline information provided in this study is crucial to inform decision-makers on improving and maintaining the implementation of strategic actions for urban environmental sustainability in Sub-Saharan African cities and other parts of the developing world.

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Dore, Giovanna, and Tanvi Nagpal. "Urban Transition in Mongolia: Pursuing Sustainability in a Unique Environment." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 48, no. 6 (July 2006): 10–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/envt.48.6.10-24.

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Pereira, Carlos Henrique T., and Minelle E. Silva. "Fostering a transition to inclusive sustainability through shared urban mobility." Research in Transportation Business & Management 51 (December 2023): 101045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2023.101045.

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Lv, Tao, Yan Wang, Xu Deng, Hui Zhan, and Martina Siskova. "Sustainability transition evaluation of urban transportation using fuzzy logic method-the case of Jiangsu Province." Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 39, no. 3 (October 7, 2020): 3883–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jifs-200011.

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City sprawl and rapid increase of petroleum-fueled passenger vehicles has attracted a lot of attention due to concerns of resource energy scarcity and associated environmental damage. This paper uses the transition theory of socio-technical system from the multi-level perspective to analyze the internal mechanism of urban transportation’s transition process and find the most sustainable measures to promote transition. A set of evaluation indicators are constructed for the urban transportation sustainability transition from macro landscape, meso regime and micro niche. Then these indicators are applied to 13 cities in Jiangsu Province and calculate scores of each using triangular fuzzy logic method. The results show that: most cities are in the ‘medium’ stage of transportation transition, while only 4 cities in the ‘relatively poor’ stage. Development of micro niche plays vital role in promoting the transition of urban transportation towards sustainability. Adequate infrastructure support and detailed implementation policies should be developed to protect the steady growth of innovation niches.

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Liu, Hailiang, Weixuan Chen, Siqi Sun, Jiapei Yu, Yanhao Zhang, and Changdong Ye. "Revisiting China’s Urban Transition from the Perspective of Urbanisation: A Critical Review and Analysis." Sustainability 16, no. 10 (May 14, 2024): 4122. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16104122.

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Amidst global sustainability challenges across domains such as energy, water, and transportation, China’s urbanisation process presents unique socio-economic dynamics, particularly following the Reform and Opening Up policy. The existing literature has not fully captured the complex interplay between urban growth and sustainability challenges in China, nor has it adequately explored the phased nature of urbanisation informed by evolving policies. This paper provides a comprehensive review of China’s urban transition, emphasising its evolution since the Reform and Opening Up policy. Through systematic analysis, it delineates the multifaceted nature of urbanisation, reflecting on policy impacts and socio-economic shifts. Findings indicate transformative urban growth characterised by new challenges in environmental sustainability, social equity, and urban–rural integration. The research unveils the transition to a human-centric urban development model, highlighting policy shifts towards sustainable practices. The results suggest a nuanced urban–rural convergence, advocating for participatory governance and balanced growth. The unique contribution of this study lies in its empirical and theoretical examination of China’s urbanisation within a global context, offering a critical perspective on policy formulation and sustainable urban development.

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Olsson, E. Gunilla Almered. "Urban food systems as vehicles for sustainability transitions." Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 40, no. 40 (June 1, 2018): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bog-2018-0019.

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AbstractStrategies and action plans for sustainable food provisioning and urban food security are in progress in many urban regions both in the global North and South. A number of urgent challenges need to be confronted such as increasing uncertainty and unpredictability related to stronger dependence on a global market for food import, ongoing political unrest and environmental conflicts, increasing resource scarcity and climate warming making food production hazardous. There is an increased vulnerability with respect to food security for human societies, both in developing and developed countries. The food security dimension of access to healthy food is related to equality and poverty and is relevant for cities in the North via the segregation challenges. The food system issue is well-suited for assessing sustainable development since food provisioning is both a multiscale and cross-sectorial issue and thus addresses more than the three dimensions of social, economic and environmental sustainability. How is the planning for sustainable food strategies in urban regions in Europe concordant with the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals and with the transition towards sustainable futures? This paper deliberates on using the food system issues for sustainability transition, drawing on the forthcoming 2018 IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) work on pathways for sustainable futures and a recent survey of existing urban food system strategies. Against this background, some reflections are given relevant for the ongoing work on a local urban food strategy for the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Martek, Igor, David J. Edwards, Stewart Seaton, and David Jones. "An appraisal of Australia's approach to promoting urban sustainability." Built Environment Project and Asset Management 12, no. 2 (November 12, 2021): 262–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bepam-07-2020-0130.

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PurposeMuch rhetoric exists on the urgency of transitioning from current practices to a more sustainable society. However, because this imperative is guided by strong ideological overtones, weaknesses and failures in the transition effort attract inadequate scrutiny. This paper reviews Australia's progress with sustainability in an urban domain and identifies key issues hindering the sustainability transition effort.Design/methodology/approachResearch on urban sustainability is ubiquitous but this weight of publications tends to emphasize technical, operational or prescriptive themes. This research uses an interpretivist philosophical lens and inductive reasoning to manually analyse pertinent literature sourced from the Scopus and Web of Science data-bases. Specifically, this study assembles outcome and evaluative assessments pertaining to Australia's urban sustainability efforts to identify both the progress achieved and residual structural impediments.FindingsEmergent findings illustrate that Australia's urban sustainability goals, as expressed by the Paris Accord, have not been met. Obstruction can be attributed to over-ambitious objectives combined with weak federal leadership, under-resourced local government, over-reliance on superficial rating systems and an ineffective regulatory regime. Elite “green branding” by image conscious corporations are insufficient to offset the general disinterest of the unincentivized majority of building owners and developers.Originality/valueThis paper cogently summarizes Australia's urban sustainability status, along with complexity of the challenges it faces to meet targets set.

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Galán-Cano, Lucía, Juan Cámara-Aceituno, Manuel Jesús Hermoso-Orzáez, Ángel Mena-Nieto, and Julio Terrados-Cepeda. "Urban metabolism, sustainability and energy transition in cities: A comprehensive review." Results in Engineering 25 (March 2025): 104278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.104278.

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Ramli, Hidayati, Zahirah Mokhtar Azizi, and Niraj Thurairajah. "Catalysing Urban Sustainability Transitions Through Household Smart Technology Engagement." Sustainability 17, no. 5 (February 26, 2025): 1999. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17051999.

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Households account for 20–40% of carbon emissions in urban areas, making them critical to achieving urban sustainability. Integrating smart technologies in households offers a promising pathway to enhance energy efficiency, mitigate climate change, and support the transition from Smart Cities to Sustainable Smart Cities (SSCs). However, achieving this transition requires not only technological adoption but also behavioural shifts that influence energy consumption—a gap in existing studies. This study examines how household engagement with smart technologies impacts behavioural change and systemic sustainability transitions. Using the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework enriched with System Thinking through Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs), qualitative data were collected via 11 household interviews exhibiting varying engagement levels. The findings revealed three household-regime dynamics: proactive households driving systemic change through innovation, moderately engaged households contributing to regime stability with financial incentives fostering gradual adoption, and resistant households reinforcing existing structures due to privacy concerns. By extending the MLP framework to incorporate behavioural and social dimensions, the study provided insights into how micro-level behaviours influence macro-level transitions, challenging techno-centric narratives. The findings underscore the need for policies that enhance awareness, address privacy concerns, and provide tailored incentives to catalyse smart technology adoption and energy efficiency, fostering a more inclusive and effective pathway toward sustainable urban futures.

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Gazzani, Flavio. "Transition to social-ecological sustainability using the environmental fiscal reform." International Journal of Social Economics 48, no. 5 (February 26, 2021): 675–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-09-2020-0656.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the introduction of three specific fiscal flexible mechanisms such as VAT surcharges/discounts, surcharges on import/manufacture of risk substances and maturity land tax to implement a new environmental fiscal reform that aims to reduce pollutions and emissions and avoid a regressive impact on low-income households using a feedback system.Design/methodology/approachThe idea behind this article is to explore alternative environmental taxation system that aims to foster the transition to social-ecological sustainability without affect negatively poor and low-income households. It looks at the potential of environmental fiscal reform in terms of environmental benefits and present in the first section, evidence of some economic regressive impact caused by environmental fiscal reform in European Union from previous empirical studies. The article then introduces of a feedback mechanism to create a repayment system, such as rebate or cash transfer to compensate the regressive effect of the levy being added to the consumer price affecting low-income households in a very short period and push consumers to buy alternative eco-friendly products and services and to stimulate the market to offer them.FindingsLowering VAT rate for green products and services has the potential to increase demand for sustainable products and services and stimulate green jobs. Surcharges on import and manufacture of risk substances play a significant role to discourage the import of hazardous and pollutant substances by putting price on them and push the industrial sector towards a medium and long-term transition. Lowering taxes rates for buildings in inner cities encourage improvements and renovations, while raising tax on peri-urban areas discourage land speculation in areas with higher grade of biodiversity. This fiscal mechanism indirectly will reduce private and public transport emissions caused by urban sprawling and travel costs, reduce public infrastructure costs for connecting suburban area to the inner city and reduce the loss of urban-edge farmland area that are vital for smart urban growth.Originality/valueThe previous studies on the economic impact of the on environmental fiscal reform analysis, have focused on environmental aspects, economic growth and employment, but little on the regressive impact in short and medium terms on least wealthy sections of society. The proposed feedback mechanism aims to reduce distortion and inequalities caused by surcharges on existing taxation to low-income using monetary repayment measures, especially for products and services with elastic demand and no substitutes.

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Rybski, Diego, Dominik E. Reusser, Anna-Lena Winz, Christina Fichtner, Till Sterzel, and Jürgen P. Kropp. "Cities as nuclei of sustainability?" Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 44, no. 3 (July 27, 2016): 425–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265813516638340.

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We have assembled CO2 emission figures from collections of urban GHG emission estimates published in peer-reviewed journals or reports from research institutes and non-governmental organizations. Analyzing the scaling with population size, we find that the exponent is development dependent with a transition from super- to sub-linear scaling. From the climate change mitigation point of view, the results suggest that urbanization is desirable in developed countries. Further, we compare this analysis with a second scaling relation, namely the fundamental allometry between city population and area, and propose that density might be a decisive quantity too. Last, we derive the theoretical country-wide urban emissions by integration and obtain a dependence on the size of the largest city.

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Bevilacqua, Carmelina, Pasquale Pizzimenti, and Yapeng Ou. "Cities in Transition and Urban Innovation Ecosystems: Place and Innovation Dynamics in the Case of Boston and Cambridge (USA)." Sustainability 15, no. 18 (September 6, 2023): 13346. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151813346.

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Urban transition is gaining relevance in the academic and policy debate for rethinking urban development strategies toward resilience and sustainability. The transformative power of innovation and knowledge is called upon to speed up the process. In this paper, we address the issue of urban transition by exploring how the urban innovation ecosystem is a crucial factor in operationalizing city transition strategies. For this scope, we propose a methodological approach to identify the city-level innovation ecosystem by connecting innovation dynamics with urban transformation. The objective is to highlight how transition dynamics are spurred by the urban innovation ecosystem in its maturity stage. Therefore, the paper proposes a case study of the Boston area (the cities of Boston and Cambridge, USA) where it is possible to detect a mature urban innovation ecosystem. The case analysis unveiled the urban characterizing factors of the innovation ecosystem. Here, the concentration of innovation activities stimulates the demand for urban transformations, which are managed through urban planning and zoning and specific supportive policy-planning initiatives.

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Canesi, Rubina, and Giuliano Marella. "Towards European Transitions: Indicators for the Development of Marginal Urban Regions." Land 12, no. 1 (December 22, 2022): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12010027.

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Urban transitions and urban-scape have been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and will likely be affected by the current Ukrainian-Russian conflict. These two major events have affected European urban regions and especially marginal regions. Indeed, these regions are mostly struggling with inequality, lack of optionality, interoperability, and resilience due to their energy dependency and digital asymmetries. The continuous demand for a green and digital transition to strengthen social and economic resilience sought and targeted by the European Community has driven the policy of recent years to new European Guidelines. Nevertheless, the digital transition will require sustainability targets in the urban context, changing economic, social, and ecological relationships and balances. In this context, faced with these new transitions, marginal urban regions must plan, design, build, and manage future urban planning choices in a new digital-hybrid space. Therefore, it is crucial to support these transitions with a multi-dimensional sustainability concept through economic, environmental, social, and digital measurements. Urban sustainability indicators (USIs) play an essential role in supporting urban choices and planning. The current study analyzes recent literature and European standards to verify if and how they have changed in embracing the European Policy Pillar under a new and different sustainability profile, which needs to include digital sustainability. As a matter of fact, even if the concept of digitization has been recognized as a pillar of ongoing transitions, the literature and even European indicators struggle to recognize it as a tangible and measurable indicator of sustainability. Seeking to bridge the gap between European requirements and urban practice, the aim of this study is to identify and suggest new key indicators of digitalization to enable the digital sustainability of urban planning to be measured. These indicators can be used to implement a new valuation tool capable of supporting marginal regions by promoting sustainable urban investments in this new hybrid space.

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Håkansson, Irene. "Urban sustainability experiments in their socio-economic milieux: A quantitative approach." Journal of Cleaner Production 209 (February 2019): 515–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.095.

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Bompard, Ettore F., Stefania Conti, Marcelo J. Masera, and Gian Giuseppe Soma. "A New Electricity Infrastructure for Fostering Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Emerging Trends." Energies 17, no. 22 (November 7, 2024): 5573. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en17225573.

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The energy transition and sustainability are the critical challenges of our time, and cities are at the forefront of this transformation. As key players, these urban centers are pioneering innovative strategies to reduce carbon emissions, enhance energy efficiency, and promote renewable energy sources. Central to the transition is the role of electricity, which acts as a cornerstone in the “cocktail” of sustainable solutions. The development of an efficient and resilient “Electricity City Grid” is essential to support this shift. This article explores the target functions and challenges associated with designing and operating the Smart Electricity City Grid of the future. It delves into the infrastructural costs required for this transition and examines the economic and technical hurdles that must be overcome. Finally, the article looks ahead to the future of research in this field, highlighting the areas that will be crucial for the continued evolution and success of smart urban grids. Through this comprehensive analysis, we aim to suggest a roadmap for cities striving to achieve sustainability through advanced electrical infrastructure.

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Luederitz, Christopher, Niko Schäpke, Arnim Wiek, Daniel J. Lang, Matthias Bergmann, Joannette J. Bos, Sarah Burch, et al. "Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments." Journal of Cleaner Production 169 (December 2017): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.005.

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Fastenrath, Sebastian, and Boris Braun. "Lost in Transition? Directions for an Economic Geography of Urban Sustainability Transitions." Sustainability 10, no. 7 (July 12, 2018): 2434. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10072434.

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Socio-technical transitions towards more sustainable modes of production and consumption are receiving increasing attention in the academic world and also from political and economic decision-makers. There is increasing demand for resource-efficient technologies and institutional innovations, particularly at the city level. However, it is widely unclear how processes of change evolve and develop and how they are embedded in different socio-spatial contexts. While numerous scholars have contributed to the vibrant research field around sustainability transitions, the geographical expertise largely has been ignored. The lack of knowledge about the role of spatial contexts, learning processes, and the co-evolution of technological, economical, and socio-political processes has been prominently addressed. Bridging approaches from Transition Studies and perspectives of Economic Geography, the paper presents conceptual ideas for an evolutionary and relational understanding of urban sustainability transitions. The paper introduces new perspectives on sustainability transitions towards a better understanding of socio-spatial contexts.

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Mahmoud, Abdesselem. "Urban sustainability challenges : Democracy and spatial injustices in Tunisia." JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 7, no. 2 (April 20, 2015): 1281–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jssr.v7i2.3563.

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In this paper, the author addresses spatial injustices in Tunisia, and seeks to which extent social and territorial inequalities could hamper democracy. Many urban disparities and social anomies such as informal sector, terrorism, unemployment, and usustainable development process threaten the vulnerable democracy transition in Tunisia. The author described and analyzed urban planning process since independency to noawadays. He analyzed the successive economic development policy makings undertook by a mono-party Nation-State. The top down development policies implemented until nowadays entailed a big gap between coastal areas and inland. The former benefitted of its site across the sea shores and proximity to Tunis and former regime. Many factors fostered export industries and tourism activities. The latters were left behind due to their lack of resources and urban planning policy dominated by neo liberal capitalist development in favor of Tunis urban primacy and the littoral where concentrated most foreign and local investments. Urban disparities and inequalities in Tunisia join in a networked society where local and global actors play a key role in economic, social, and urban development process in Tunisia. Tunisian society is a subsystem within a global system (Wallerstein2012), and what is happening is not conjonctural, but it is due to global social movements (Sassen 2007 ; Castells 2012 ; Braudel, 1992 ; Amin, 2003). Terrorism, pollution, inequalities are not per se, but are the negative results of a a myriad of factors: economic, politics, cultural, emotional, aesthetics, social and urban morphologies. Many economic, social, and political actors intervened and interconnected in public and private arenas and triggered those anomies. Fair urban policies are expected to be achieved through a multilevel governance in order to implement the revolution objectives in Tunisia. Otherwise, a representative democracy only, won't fulfil the well-being expected by large Tunisian people. Sustainable urban governance requires a multi-scalar bottom-up and top-down policy-making. In Tunisia, after democratic transition success, the state should be revamped, and compensate its deficit. A sustainable urban planning implies a holistic policy framework involving private and public sectors, and civil society actors locally, regionally, and globally.

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Hein, Carola, Sabine Luning, Han Meyer, Stephen J. Ramos, and Paul Van de Laar. "Shipping Canals in Transition." Urban Planning 8, no. 3 (September 26, 2023): 259–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v8i3.7619.

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<p>Shipping canals have supported maritime traffic and port development for many centuries. Radical transformations of these shipping landscapes through land reclamation, diking, and canalization were celebrated as Herculean works of progress and modernity. Today, shipping canals are the sites of increasing tension between economic growth and associated infrastructural interventions focused on the quality, sustainability, and resilience of natural systems and spatial settlement patterns. Shifting approaches to land/water relations must now be understood in longer political histories in which pre-existing alliances influence changes in infrastructure planning. On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the New Waterway (Nieuwe Waterweg), the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities PortCityFutures Center hosted an international symposium in October 2022 to explore the past, present, and future of this channel that links Rotterdam to the North Sea. Symposium participants addressed issues of shipping, dredging, and planning within in the Dutch delta, and linked them to contemporary debates on the environmental, spatial, and societal conditions of shipping canals internationally. The thematic issue builds on symposium conversations, and highlights the importance of spatial, economic, and political linkages in port and urban development. These spatial approaches contribute to more dynamic, responsive strategies for shipping canals through water management and planning.</p>

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Jung, Manuel, and Alexander Wentland. "Beyond scalable impacts: Roles of mobility experiments in local transition governance." GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 33, no. 1 (March 16, 2024): 80–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.s1.12.

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The impact of short-term, localized real-world experiments on sustainable change is debated. Our analysis of three mobility experiments shows that even in the absence of quantifiable results, these experiments are still perceived as successful. By highlighting the underlying collective discursive strategies, we emphasize the different roles of experimentation in local mobility transitions and the importance of social learning and collective understanding in urban experimentation.In this article, we explore the role of real-world experiments in local transition governance, focusing on the negotiation between measurable impacts and the evaluation of localized, tangible outcomes. In our qualitative comparative analysis, we examine three distinct mobility experiments aimed at advancing sustainable transformation in mobility and urban planning, namely the co-creative research project City2Share in Munich, the political program of the Superblocks in Barcelona, and the real-world test bed for automated shuttles Digibus Austria in Koppl near Salzburg. Despite the structural limitations of the temporal, spatial, and legal framework and the uncertainties in measuring the impact, all experiments were presented as successful. This success was negotiated and re-framed via five discursive strategies: mobilizing citizen engagement, highlighting small achievements, manifesting institutional embedding, generating political momentum, and delegating responsibility. As we argue, success and scaling are not just the result of scientific proof, but also a matter of negotiating the political issues raised by the experiment.

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Vargas-Hernández, José G., and Olga E. Domené-Painenao. "Contributions of Urban Agro Ecological Agriculture to Ecosystem Services." International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities 2, no. 1 (January 2021): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijupsc.2021010101.

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This paper has the aim to analyze the implications of the transition of ecosystem services based on urban agro ecology. It advances on the debate over the negative effects of the traditional and industrial oriented agricultural production on the ecosystem services, food systems, climate change, etc. and analyses the principles, methods, and some practices that support the transition to urban agro ecology. The method employed is the analytical of the theoretical and empirical literature review. It concludes that a transition from traditional and industrial-oriented agriculture towards more urban agro ecology is inevitable to improve the ecological and environmental services, the economic efficiency, the social equity and justice, and the environmental sustainability of cities.

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Benedek, József. "Kolozsvár történelmi belvárosának társadalmi fenntarthatósága." Erdélyi Társadalom 4, no. 2 (2006): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17177/77171.66.

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The author examines the social sustainability of Kolozsvár's historic city center, pointing out the historic, social, geographic, economic and politic features that shape the current characteristics and potentials of the city. He concludes that in Kolozsvár, just like in any other city of Romania, social sustainability constitutes a problematic issue for urban planning, urban policy, and the privatization of estates and services in the context of politic and economic transition

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Jayaweera, R., S. Nop, C. Karagianni, M. Waibel, and D. Schwede. "Sustainable building arenas: Constructing a governance framework for a sustainability transition in Cambodia’s urban built environment." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1078, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 012084. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1078/1/012084.

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Abstract Transition governance approaches for the building sector have been discussed for more than a decade. Very little work has however moved beyond the socio-political contexts of the Global North to scrutinize the spatial-institutional challenges of sustainability transitions in the Global South, or more illiberal contexts. Consequently, this paper introduces a transition governance framework, a Sustainable Building Arena (SBA), that addresses the contextual particularities of the urban building regime and its de/stabilizing factors in the case of Cambodia to inform transformational change. The design of the SBA draws on the literature on urban transition management, transition management in the Global South, as well as transdisciplinary transition management arenas, and extends these concepts to Cambodia’s urban built environment. It furthermore builds upon the results of an extensive analysis of the socio-technical system and an evaluation of residential buildings in Phnom Penh, including indoor environmental conditions. The SBA is conceptualized as an informal institution and as a protected and co-creative space at the science-policy-business-civil society interface. It allows sustainability-minded but often marginalized actors to co-produce and pluralize knowledge - including the co-development of problem framings, visions and transition strategies – and facilitates cooperation, as well as the creation of alternative discourse coalitions and networks of social capital. Overall, the paper argues that such scientifically grounded and participatory processes, that are attentive to and designed for the particular spatial-institutional context, can indeed support the development of actionable knowledge, the empowerment of marginalized actors and support collective action for transformative change in the built environment sectors in contexts outside the Western liberal norm of transition studies.

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Derkenbaeva, Erkinai, Solmaria Halleck Vega, Gert Jan Hofstede, and Eveline van Leeuwen. "Positive energy districts: Mainstreaming energy transition in urban areas." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 153 (January 2022): 111782. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111782.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Urban sustainability transition experiments'

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