The experimental city
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The experimental city
（Routledge research in sustainable urbanism）
Routledge, 2016
- hbk
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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 seeks to contribute 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.
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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