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Author:   James Evans (University of Manchester, UK) ,  Andrew Karvonen ,  Rob Raven
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781138856202

ISBN 10:   1138856207
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   16 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. The experimental city: new modes and prospects of urban transformation PART I: LOGICS OF EXPERIMENTATION 2. Experiments in the city: unpacking notions of experimentation for sustainability 3. Cities, experiments, and the logics of the knowledge economy 4. The urban laboratory and emerging sites of urban experimentation 5. Virtual city experimentation: a critical role for design visioning 6. The boundaries of experimentation in sustainable urbanism 7. Cabin ecologies: the technoscience of integrated urban infrastructure PART II: EXPERIMENTING IN CITIES 8. Green enclaves, neoliberalism and the constitution of the experimental city in Santiago de Chile 9. Urban mobility experiments in India and Thailand 10. Urban science networks and local economy: the case of Newcastle upon Tyne 11. Grassroots experimentation: alternative learning and innovation in the Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin 12. Living labs: users, citizens and sustainable urban transitions PART III: EXPERIMENTAL CITIES 13. Turning over a new leaf: sustainability and urban experimentation in Seoul 14. Frankenstein cities: (de)composed urbanism and experimental eco-cities 15. Experimental afterlives: making and unmaking developmental laboratories in Ghana 16. The glorious failure of the experimental city: cautionary tales from Arcosanti and Masdar 17. Post carbon cities: distributed and decentralized and demodernized?

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If the much talked about politics of green transformations during the post-2009 era is to be more than another fad, it will have to find traction in the world's cities where the majority of the population now lives. This book convincingly argues that this is starting to happen as 'urban experiments' mushroom across the global regions of the world. This first provocative review of the evolutionary potential of these actually existing processes of change starts off in Chapter 2 with a remarkably useful definition of 'urban experimentation' that is then explored by people from many different disciplines and perspectives. The analyses emerging from this book raise the possibility that 'urban experimentation' may well be the emergent mode of governance that replaces both bureaucratic managerialism and the business-led public-private partnerships that underpinned neo-liberal corporatism and splintered urbanism. Entrepreneurs, innovators and knowledge networks become the new players in a world where cities become laboratories for the future. Professor Mark Swelling, Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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James Evans is a Professor of Geography at the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK. Andrew Karvonen is Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Manchester, UK and co-director of the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy. Rob Raven is Professor of Institutions and Transitions at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

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