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An assessment framework for safeguarding public values on mobility platforms

Urbanites increasingly turn to digital mobility platforms to make use of means of transportation and to plan and book journeys. While these platforms can contribute to making urban travel more sustainable and ...

Authors: Rianne Riemens, Carolin Nast, Peter Pelzer and Martijn van den Hurk

Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:7

Content type: Research Published on: 7 September 2021
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Tilted platforms: rental housing technology and the rise of urban big data oligopolies

This article interprets emerging scholarship on rental housing platforms—particularly the most well-known and used short- and long-term rental housing platforms—and considers how the technological processes co...

Authors: Geoff Boeing, Max Besbris, David Wachsmuth and Jake Wegmann

Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:6

Content type: Perspective Published on: 18 August 2021
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Urban safety, community healing & gun violence reduction: the advance peace model

Cities around the world continue to grapple with safety, security and the role for law enforcement in reducing gun crime. Recent calls for alternatives to militarized policing in cities and addressing racism i...

Authors: Jason Corburn, Devone Boggan and Khaalid Muttaqi

Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:5

Content type: Focus point Published on: 5 July 2021
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Circulating value: convergences of datafication, financialization, and urbanization

Much scholarship has revealed the interrelationships of urbanization and financialization of cities in the past half century. However, these twin processes are modulating with the advent and application of dig...

Authors: Julia R. Wagner

Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:4

Content type: Review Published on: 29 June 2021
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The legal street: a scarcity approach to urban open space in mobility transitions

An urban mobility transition requires a transition in space allocation, since most mobility modes are dependent on urban open space for circulation and the storage of vehicles. Despite increasing attention to ...

Authors: Brett J. M. Petzer, Anna J. Wieczorek and Geert P. J. Verbong

Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:3

Content type: Research Published on: 17 February 2021
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Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities

The narrative of ‘urban transformations’ epitomises the hope that cities provide rich opportunities for contributing to local and global sustainability and resilience. Urban transformation research is developi...

Authors: Katharina Hölscher and Niki Frantzeskaki

Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:2

Content type: Perspective Published on: 12 February 2021
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City residents, scientists and policy-makers: power in co-producing knowledge

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 approac...

Authors: Kareem Buyana, Jacqueline Walubwa, Paul Mukwaya, Shuaib Lwasa and Samuel Owuor

Citation: Urban Transformations 2021 3:1

Content type: Research Published on: 30 January 2021
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Planning for change: Transformation labs for an alternative food system in Cape Town, South Africa

There has been a call for more participatory processes to feed into urban planning for more resilient food systems. This paper describes a process of knowledge co-production for transforming towards an alterna...

Authors: Laura Pereira, Scott Drimie, Olive Zgambo and Reinette Biggs

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:13

Content type: Research Published on: 17 November 2020
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Understanding how city networks are leveraging climate action: experimentation through C40

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 climat...

Authors: Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen, Kathryn Davidson and Lars Coenen

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:12

Content type: Research Published on: 14 October 2020
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Spatiotemporal perspectives on urban energy transitions: a comparative study of three cities in China

This paper develops an integrated framework to study the socio-spatial and temporal dimensions of urban energy transitions to investigate the development and spread of solar energy technologies in urban China....

Authors: Vanesa Castán Broto, Daphne Mah, Fangzhu Zhang, Ping Huang, Kevin Lo and Linda Westman

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:11

Content type: Research Published on: 11 September 2020
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Joint programming for urban transformations: the making of the JPI Urban Europe Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

The Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe, a transnational initiative by European countries in partnership with the European Union (EU) to tackle the challenge of sustainable urbanisation by programm...

Authors: Jonas Bylund

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:10

Content type: Focus point Published on: 4 September 2020
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Shifting landscapes of coastal flood risk: environmental (in)justice of urban change, sea level rise, and differential vulnerability in New York City

Climate-driven changes in coastal flood risk have enormous consequences for coastal cities. These risks intersect with unequal patterns of environmental hazards exacerbating differential vulnerability of clima...

Authors: Pablo Herreros-Cantis, Veronica Olivotto, Zbigniew J. Grabowski and Timon McPhearson

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:9

Content type: Research Published on: 29 July 2020
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Considering the role of urban types in coproduced policy guidance for sustainability transitions

The imperative to massively and quickly scale sustainability transitions in urban areas globally stands in tension with the sustained commitments required of grounded coproduction efforts that seek to deliver ...

Authors: Samuel Tabory and Anu Ramaswami

Citation: Urban Transformations 2020 2:8

Content type: Frontiers paper Published on: 23 July 2020
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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

An assessment framework for safeguarding public values on mobility platforms

Tilted platforms: rental housing technology and the rise of urban big data oligopolies

Urban safety, community healing & gun violence reduction: the advance peace model

Circulating value: convergences of datafication, financialization, and urbanization

The legal street: a scarcity approach to urban open space in mobility transitions

Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities

City residents, scientists and policy-makers: power in co-producing knowledge

Planning for change: Transformation labs for an alternative food system in Cape Town, South Africa

Understanding how city networks are leveraging climate action: experimentation through C40

Spatiotemporal perspectives on urban energy transitions: a comparative study of three cities in China

Joint programming for urban transformations: the making of the JPI Urban Europe Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

Shifting landscapes of coastal flood risk: environmental (in)justice of urban change, sea level rise, and differential vulnerability in New York City

Considering the role of urban types in coproduced policy guidance for sustainability transitions

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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