The Experimental City

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-29967-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 433 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism

This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions.

With contributions from leading scholars, and case studies from the Global North and South, from small- to large-scale cities, this book suggests that urban experiments offer novel modes of engagement, governance, and politics that both challenge and complement conventional strategies. The book is organized around three cross-cutting themes. Part I explores the logics of urban experimentation, different approaches, and how and why they are deployed. Part II considers how experiments are being staged within cities, by whom, and with what effects. Part III examines how entire cities or groups of cities are constructed as experiments.

This book develops a deeper and more socially and politically nuanced understanding of how urban experiments shape cities and drive wider changes in society, providing a framework to examine the phenomenon of urban experimentation in conceptual and empirical detail.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, James

Karvonen, Andrew

Raven, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?

Über Autor(innen)

James Evans is a Professor of Geography at the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK.

Andrew Karvonen is Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Studies at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Rob Raven is Professor of Institutions and Transitions at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.