Despite their growing application and worldwide diffusion, the transformative potential of
experiments aimed at achieving “streets for people” rather than “streets for traffic” remains …

Highlights•ULL are sites to design, test and learn from innovation in real time.•ULL are
proliferating rapidly while our understanding of their nature and purpose is still evolving.•We …

In the 30 years since the journal Environmental Politics was founded, we have witnessed a
profound shift in how we understand climate from its initial framing as global problem, to one …

In recent years, the world has seen the emergence of a number of urban projects which,
under the banner of experimentation, have promoted alternative models of city-making …

The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which
urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of …

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines
how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without …

Innovations in urban governance such as Urban Living Labs (ULL) are expected to
accelerate the transition towards more sustainable and climate-resilient cities. This article …

Cities, and the networked infrastructures that sustain urban life, are seen as crucial sites for
creating more sustainable futures. Yet, although there are many plans, the realisation of …

We analyse an urban platform (Alibaba's City Brain) to show how smart city development is
evolving in urban China. In order to do so, we base our analysis on two strands of literature …

Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental value through the
seamless connection of urban services and infrastructure by digital technologies (Hollands …