Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning

Shahani, Fatemeh; Pineda-Pinto, Melissa; Frantzeskaki, Niki

doi:10.1007/s13280-021-01653-4

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“…The comparison included the three sources on transformation enablers drawn on in the Webb et al ( 2018 ) urban transformation framing article (i.e. Grimm et al 2000 ; Beddoe et al 2009 ; Gorddard et al 2016 ), and also Wolfram ( 2016 ), Waddell ( 2016 ), Abson et al ( 2017 ), Scoones et al ( 2019 ), Wolfram et al ( 2019 ), Moser et al ( 2019 ), Kangas et al 2019 , Iwaniec et al ( 2019 ), Hölscher et al ( 2019 ), Shahani et al ( 2021 ) and Grainger-Brown et al ( 2022 ).…”

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“…2 , Table 2 ) has been developed from the FEA process outcomes, and also built in a deliberately cumulative way on other related frameworks, and most explicitly that of Wolfram ( 2016 ). The latter has itself been used in case studies and capacity assessments across the global South and North (Wolfram et al 2019 ; Castan Broto et al 2019 ) and across very different socio-political systems (Meyer et al 2021 ; Shahani et al 2021 ). Most of these studies have focused on city-region to local scale initiatives, though some draw attention to the need for studies across geographic scales (Castan Broto et al 2019 ; Borgstrom 2019 ), and refer to the influence of national policies (Wolfram 2019 ).…”

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Enabling urban systems transformations: co-developing national and local strategies

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Transformative urban development is urgent to achieve future sustainable development and wellbeing. Transformation can benefit from shared and cumulative learning on strategies to guide urban development across local to national scales, while also reflecting the complex emergent nature of urban systems, and the need for context-specific and place-based solutions. The article addresses this challenge, drawing on extensive transdisciplinary engagement and National Strategy co-development processes for Australia. This includes generation of two frameworks as boundary objects to assist such transdisciplinary strategy development. An ‘enabling urban systems transformation’ framework comprises four generic overarching transformation enablers and a set of necessary underpinning urban capacities. This also built cumulatively on other sustainability and urban transformation studies. A complementary ‘knowledge for urban systems transformation’ framework comprises key knowledge themes that can support an integrated systems approach to mission-focused urban transformations, such as decarbonising cities. The article provides insights on the transdisciplinary processes, urban systems frameworks, and scoping of key strategies that may help those developing transformation strategies from local to national scales.Science highlights• Transdisciplinary national urban strategy development is used to distil generic frameworks and strategy scopes with potential international application.• The frameworks also build on other published framings to support convergent, cumulative and transdisciplinary urban science.• The ‘enabling transformations’ and ‘urban knowledge’ frameworks include the perspective of those developing sustainable urban systems strategies.• The enabling framework also informs ‘National Urban Policy’ and ‘Knowledge and Innovation Hub’ strategies, and prevailing power imbalances.• The knowledge framework can help frame urban challenges, missions and knowledge programs.Policy and practice recommendations• An urban ‘transformation imperative’ and ‘strategic response’ can be co-developed from local to national scales.• Local initiative is crucial to drive urban strategies, but sustained national leadership with coherent policy across sectors and scales is also key.• Diversity in engagement participation and processes generates whole-of-urban-systems and local-to-national perspectives.• Urban solutions are context-specific but generic frameworks can help collaborative issue framing and responses.• Collaborative issue framing informed by generic frameworks can bring broader perspectives to context-specific and contested policy and practice issues.

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Section: Results: Responding To Urban Transformation Imperativesmentioning

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“…Formal and informal institutions and networks play a role in the governance of urban sustainability transformations. Informal institutions and networks can lead in the experimentation and knowledge integration (Herrfahrdt-Pähle et al, 2020;Shahani et al, 2021). Intermediaries or bridging organizations often have a role in bringing diverse stakeholders together from formal and informal settings in transformative governance to solve problems and steer transformations, working across scales and human agency levels (Burch et al, 2016;Wolfram, 2016).…”

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“…First-tier governance for urban sustainability transformations requires transformative leadership and coordination across different political levels and sectors (Schurig and Turan, 2022). Transformative leadership can shape cities by inspiring communities to build collaborations across scales and actions and connect shared values and visions (Wolfram, 2016;Herrfahrdt-Pähle et al, 2020;Shahani et al, 2021).…”

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“…Secondly, policymakers and planners are increasingly focused on how cities can switch to a sustainable transformational model of urban growth in Southeast Asia, especially in emerging second-tier cities (OECD, 2016). There are increasing arguments that urban sustainability policies and plans need to be supported by transformative urban governance to enable their implementation (Webb et al, 2017;Hölscher et al, 2019a;Shahani et al, 2021).…”

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How do governance visions, institutions and practices enable urban sustainability transformations? A study of Battambang and Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Lord,

Prior

2024

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Whilst research has highlighted the challenges of rapid urbanization in Cambodia, few studies have focused on increased interest within Cambodia on how reforming urban governance can support urban sustainability transformations. Addressing this research gap, this study explores how urban governance might enable sustainability transformations in two second-tier cities—Battambang and Sihanoukville—in Cambodia, based on the analysis of open-ended interviews with fifty-five representatives involved in the development and implementation of urban sustainability plans and policies for these cities. The findings identify how urban governance visions, institutions and practices can be strengthened to enable sustainability transformations within these cities. The study highlights that alignment between the three tiers of governance—meta-governance (visions and worldviews), second-tier (structural and institutional) and third-tier (day-to-day interactions) is needed for urban sustainability transformations.

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The Role of Strategic Environmental Assessment for Sustainability in Urban Systems Transformation

Polido

2023

Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance

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Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning

Cited by 20 publications

References 102 publications

Enabling urban systems transformations: co-developing national and local strategies

Enabling urban systems transformations: co-developing national and local strategies

How do governance visions, institutions and practices enable urban sustainability transformations? A study of Battambang and Sihanoukville, Cambodia

The Role of Strategic Environmental Assessment for Sustainability in Urban Systems Transformation

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