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Kes McCormick

Senior lecturer

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Urban Living Labs: Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions

Author

  • Harriet Bulkeley
  • Lars Coenen
  • Niki Frantzeskaki
  • Christian Hartmann
  • Annica Kronsell
  • Lindsay Mai
  • Simon Marvin
  • Kes McCormick
  • Frank van Steenbergen
  • Yuliya Voytenko Palgan

Summary, in English

Urban Living Labs (ULL) are advanced as an explicit form of intervention delivering sustainability goals for cities. Established at the boundaries between research, innovation and policy, ULL are intended to design, demonstrate and learn about the effects of urban interventions in real time. While rapidly growing as an empirical phenomenon, our understanding of the nature and purpose of ULL is still evolving. While much of the existing literature draws attention to the aims and workings of ULL, there have to date been fewer critical accounts that seek to understand their purpose and implications. In this paper, we suggest that transition studies and the literature on urban governance offer important insights that can enable us to address this gap.

Department/s

  • CIRCLE
  • Department of Political Science
  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2017

Language

English

Pages

13-17

Publication/Series

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Volume

22

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Other Environmental Engineering
  • Human Geography

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1877-3435