Planning roles in infrastructure system transitions: A review of research bridging socio-technical transitions and planning

Carroli, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2018.06.001

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“…This can include assumptions of traditional urban planning as being path-dependent and plagued by organizational inertia-and consequently in need of renewal (cf. Carroli, 2018). This can also be related to an overall discourse on "wicked problems" i.e., the widespread notion that today's societal problems are so difficult that they require new forms of governance to be solved (cf.…”

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Conceptualizing Testbed Planning: Urban Planning in the Intersection between Experimental and Public Sector Logics

Berglund-Snodgrass

Mukhtar-Landgren

2020

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Urban planning is, in many countries, increasingly becoming intertwined with local climate ambitions, investments in urban attractiveness and “smart city” innovation measures. In the intersection between these trends, urban experimentation has developed as a process where actors are granted action space to test innovations in a collaborative setting. One arena for urban experimentation is urban testbeds. Testbeds are sites of urban development, in which experimentation constitutes an integral part of planning and developing the area. This article introduces the notion of testbed planning as a way to conceptualize planning processes in delimited sites where planning is combined with processes of urban experimentation. We define testbed planning as a multi-actor, collaborative planning process in a delimited area, with the ambition to generate and disseminate learning while simultaneously developing the site. The aim of this article is to explore processes of testbed planning with regard to the role of urban planners. Using an institutional logics perspective we conceptualize planners as navigating between a public sector—and an experimental logic. The public sector logic constitutes the formal structure of “traditional” urban planning, and the experimental logic a collaborative and testing governance structure. Using examples from three Nordic municipalities, this article explores planning roles in experiments with autonomous buses in testbeds. The analysis shows that planners negotiate these logics in three different ways, combining and merging them, separating and moving between them or acting within a conflictual process where the public sector logic dominates.

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Section: The Experimental Logicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing Testbed Planning: Urban Planning in the Intersection between Experimental and Public Sector Logics

Berglund-Snodgrass

Mukhtar-Landgren

2020

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“…Faced with the unprecedented challenges in this new urban age of planetary urbanization, planning theorists, such as Gleeson (2012), propose that planning has been successful at finding 'new aspirations and rationales'. Similarly, Carroli (2018) has suggested a variety of ways by which urban planning interacts with transitions as spatial processes unfolding over time while Raynor, Doyon, and Beer (2018) note how planning processes are required to be more responsive, adaptable and participatory despite substantially different methodologies, theoretical groundings, priorities, goals and attitudes towards consensus and experimentation. Others, adopting a more fast-lived perspective where cities have become liquid and mutable spaces where planning has become increasingly privatized (McCann, 2001), observe how design logics and approaches have become increasingly manifest as a formal place-making activity by consultants, planners and architects.…”

Section: Ull As Embedded Nuclei For Urban Transition Governance?mentioning

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Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation

Wirth

Fuenfschilling

Frantzeskaki

et al. 2018

European Planning Studies

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Urban Living Labs (ULL) are considered spaces to facilitate experimentation about sustainability solutions. ULL represent sites that allow different urban actors to design, test and learn from socio-technical innovations. However, despite their recent proliferation in the European policy sphere, the underlying processes through which ULL might be able to generate and diffuse new socio-technical configurations beyond their immediate boundaries have been largely disregarded and it remains to be examined how they contribute to urban sustainability transitions. With this study, we contribute to a better understanding of the diffusion mechanisms and strategies through which ULL (seek to) create a wider impact using the conceptual lens of transition studies. The mechanisms of diffusion are investigated in four distinct ULL in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Malmö, Sweden. The empirical results indicate six specific strategies that aim to support the diffusion of innovations and know-how developed within ULL to a broader context: transformative place-making, activating network partners, replication of lab structure, education and training, stimulating entrepreneurial growth and narratives of impact.

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“…Johnson et al [15] stated that drivers of change on the meso level can arise from different levels in the system, both being social and ecological, and combinations of that Juri [16] added the technical element, defining the meso level as a socio-technical-ecological system (STES). Decisions for changing the system are made in a multi-level governance system, which entails actors, often change agents on different levels, finding each other and proposing solutions that work throughout the different levels [10,15,[17][18][19][20][21][22]. Gorrissen et al [23] (p. 172) called this: "new practices, technologies that seek to profoundly change established unsustainable routines and perceptions towards more sustainable ones."…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Conditions For Green Urban Transforma...mentioning

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“…), combined with pressure the micro level (people in the neighbourhoods demanding green spaces, experimenting with green streets [24]), as well as the incremental development on the meso level (politicians wanting to change [22,25] and seeing increasing problems in separate subsystems in a city (see Section 3 for more explanation)). Secondly, solutions for problems in separate subsystems on the meso level must coincide [22,26,27]; problems with climate issues, housing, liveability, green urban infrastructure, transport, etc., must be addressed by integrated solutions. In addition, policy, funding, planning, awareness, and communication should be aligned, in order to create a window of opportunity (see also [22]).…”

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Transformation towards Green Cities: Key Conditions to Accelerate Change

2022

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Planning roles in infrastructure system transitions: A review of research bridging socio-technical transitions and planning

Cited by 38 publications

References 71 publications

Conceptualizing Testbed Planning: Urban Planning in the Intersection between Experimental and Public Sector Logics

Conceptualizing Testbed Planning: Urban Planning in the Intersection between Experimental and Public Sector Logics

Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation

Transformation towards Green Cities: Key Conditions to Accelerate Change

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