Table Of ContentFuture City 11
Niki Frantzeskaki
Katharina Hölscher
Matthew Bach
Flor Avelino Editors
Co-creating
Sustainable
Urban Futures
A Primer on Applying Transition
Management in Cities
Future City
Volume 11
AdvisoryBoards
Jack Ahern, University of Massachusetts, Department of Landscape Architecture
andRegionalPlanning,Amherst,MA,USA
John Bolte, Oregon State University, Biological & Ecological Engineering
Department,Corvallis,OR,USA
Richard J. Dawson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Civil
Engineering&:Geosciences,NewcastleuponTyne,UK
Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Manchester, School of Environment and
Development,ManchesterSchoolofArchitecture,Manchester,UK
Almo Farina, University of Urbino, Institute of Biomathematics, Faculty of
EnvironmentalSciences,Urbino,Italy
RaymondJamesGreen,UniversityofMelbourne,FacultyofArchitecture,Building
&Planning,Parkville,VIC,Australia
Glenn R. Guntenspergen, National Resources Research Institute, US Geological
Survey,Duluth,MN,USA
Dagmar Haase, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ,
DepartmentofComputationalLandscapeEcology,Leipzig,Germany
Mike Jenks, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Institute of Sustainable
Development,DepartmentofArchitecture,Oxford,UK
Cecil Konijnendijk van den Konijnendijk, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management,
Alnarp,Sweden
Joan Nassauer, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and
Environment, Landscape Ecology, Perception and Design Lab, Ann Arbor,
MI,USA
Stephan Pauleit, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Chair for Strategic
LandscapePlanningandManagement,Freising,Germany
StewardPickett,CaryInstituteofEcosystemStudies,Millbrook,NY,USA
RobertVale,VictoriaUniversityofWellington,SchoolofArchitectureandDesign,
Wellington,NewZealand
KenYeang,LlewelynDaviesYeang,London,UnitedKingdom
Makoto Yokohari,UniversityofTokyo, Graduate School ofSciences,Instituteof
Environmental Studies, Department of Natural Environment, Kashiwa, Chiba,
Japan
FutureCityDescription
Asof2008,forthefirsttimeinhumanhistory,halfoftheworld’spopulationnow
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and environmental health receiving increasing political attention, interest in the
sustainabledevelopmentofourfuturecitieshasgrowndramatically.
Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture, evidence-based design
and sustainable planning, only a fraction of the current literature successfully
integrates the necessary theory and practice from across the full range of relevant
disciplines.
Springer’s Future City series combines expertise from designers, and from
natural and social scientists, to discuss the wide range of issues facing the
architects, planners, developers and inhabitants of the world’s future cities. Its
aim is to encourage the integration of ecological theory into the aesthetic, social
andpracticalrealitiesofcontemporaryurbandevelopment.
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Niki Frantzeskaki (cid:129) Katharina Holscher
Matthew Bach (cid:129) Flor Avelino
Editors
Co-creating Sustainable
Urban Futures
A Primer on Applying Transition
Management in Cities
Editors
NikiFrantzeskaki KatharinaH€olscher
DRIFTFacultyofSocialSciences DRIFTFacultyofSocialSciences
ErasmusUniversity ErasmusUniversity
Rotterdam,TheNetherlands Rotterdam,TheNetherlands
MatthewBach FlorAvelino
DRIFTFacultyofSocialSciences DRIFTFacultyofSocialSciences
ErasmusUniversity ErasmusUniversity
Rotterdam,TheNetherlands Rotterdam,TheNetherlands
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My Experience with Transition Management
Myfirstobservationbeingpartofatransitionmanagementprocesswithinthecity
of Rotterdam was the fact that it provided a ‘good excuse’ to create the much-
neededspacewithinacityorganisationforcreativityandinnovation.Wehaveseen
the transition management process functioning as a strong shield towards risk-
averseforces.Exactlywhatwasneeded!
Especiallywhenthecrisishithard,thestandardreactionofcitieswasnottostart
anythingnewandperformingthecitytaskswiththeminimumpossibleeffort.But
what cities desperately needed to tackle wicked urban problems was the exact
opposite: new ways of working and new ways of tackling the problems. The
previous ways of working certainly proofed that just doing ‘business as usual’
willnotmakeadifferenceforourcitizens.Wefeelitisourobligationtofindways
ofworkingthatcanmakearealdifference.
We have seen transition management gently forcing cities out of their comfort
zonebyinvolvinginitspolicyprocessestheoutsideworld,especiallythosewitha
realdriveandtrackrecordforchange.Thiscanfeel‘risky’forurbanpolicyofficers
andwillmakethemtrytofindawayoutofthis‘newthing’.Luckily,wehavealso
seenthattransitionmanagementcanofferthemuch-neededfirmhandholdtocling
ontoandprovidesassurance:‘thiscanreallywork’.
On the one hand, reassurances come from the fact that transition management
activities are being part of a scientifically well-elaborated method. On the other
hand,theDRIFTactionresearcherscanprovidefirst-handexamplesfromcitiesthat
appliedthemethod,leadingtorealactionand,moreimportantly,realchangeinthe
urbanenvironment.Thisisconvincingevidenceforothercities.
Wefirst-handexperiencedthatbeinginthemiddleofthefirststepsofframing
and envisioning the process can be overwhelming. Dealing with the overload of
informationandtakingonboardtheopinionsoffrontrunnersandunusualsuspects
arechallenging.Justlikenotknowingwhatthefutureofthisprocesswillbring.The
braveryofthecitiesinvolvedintheprojectIhaveinmymind–MUSICproject–
wasimpressive.Thecitycasestudiesenrichedtheunderstandingandfine-tuningof
v
vi MyExperiencewithTransitionManagement
thetransitionmanagement methodforcities.Thesebravecitiesfollowedallsteps
of the transition management process from setting the scene towards real action
plans, producing actions that changed their cities, to more sustainable and
innovativeones.
UrbanPlanningDepartment,Strategy CleoPouw
andInvestment
MunicipalityofRotterdam,Rotterdam,
TheNetherlands
Contents
TransitionManagementinandforCities:Introducing
aNewGovernanceApproachtoAddressUrbanChallenges. . . . . . . . . 1
NikiFrantzeskaki,KatharinaH€olscher,JuliaM.Wittmayer,FlorAvelino,
andMatthewBach
PartI IntroductionofTransitionsThinkinginUrban
ContextandTheoreticalGroundsofTransition
ManagementinandforCities
UnderstandingtheUrbanContextandItsChallenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
NikiFrantzeskaki,MatthewBach,andPatienceMguni
IntroducingSustainabilityTransitions’Thinking
inUrbanContexts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
NikiFrantzeskaki,MatthewBach,KatharinaH€olscher,andFlorAvelino
TransitionManagement:GuidingPrinciplesandApplications. . . . . . . 81
JuliaM.Wittmayer,FrankvanSteenbergen,NikiFrantzeskaki,
andMatthewBach
UrbanPlanningandTransitionManagement:Rationalities,
InstrumentsandDialectics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
MarcWolfram
PartII ApplicationsofTransitionManagementinCities
EmpoweringActorsinTransitionManagementin
andforCities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
KatharinaH€olscher,FlorAvelino,andJuliaM.Wittmayer
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viii Contents
StartingUpTransitionManagement:ACloserViewon
theSystemsAnalysisandHowItInitiatedTransformative
ThinkinginGhentandAberdeenCities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
SuzanneMaas,KarenFortuin,NikiFrantzeskaki,andChrisRoorda
TransitionManagementinUrbanNeighbourhoods:
TheCaseofCarnisse,Rotterdam,theNetherlands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
JuliaM.Wittmayer,FrankvanSteenbergen,andMatthewBach
AGermanExperience:TheChallengesofMediating
‘Ideal-Type’TransitionManagementinLudwigsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
KatharinaH€olscherandJuliaM.Wittmayer
TransitionManagementforLocalSustainability:
ACaseStudyfromLaBotijaProtectedArea,
SanMarcosdeColo´n,Honduras. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
GiorgiaSilvestriandNikiFrantzeskaki
PartIII WhatTransitionManagementCouldOffer
inDifferentContexts
TranslatingTransitionsThinkingandTransition
ManagementintotheCityPlanningWorld. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
PeterWalsh
TransitionManagementinUrbanChina:Co-creation
ofNewHomesoraMonopolyGame?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
QianqingLindsayMai
ATransitionManagementApproachforShrinking
CitiesintheUnitedStates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
TerrySchwarz
Context-DrivenTransitionManagementasaNecessary
VehicleforSustainableUrbanFuturesinSuriname. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Danie¨lA.Lachman,MartinusR.J.Panday,andDeryckJ.H.Ferrier
UrbanTransitionManagementasaDemocraticPractice?
TheCaseofRotterdam’sWaterfrontRegeneration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
ShivantJhagroe
PartIV ReflectingontheImpactsofTransition
ManagementinCities
SoWhat?TransitionManagementasaTransformative
ApproachtoSupportGovernanceCapacitiesinCities. . . .. . . . . . . . .. 375
KatharinaH€olscher
Appendix:ExercisesandExamQuestionsforLecturers
UsingThisBook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Transition Management in and for Cities:
Introducing a New Governance Approach
to Address Urban Challenges
NikiFrantzeskaki,KatharinaH€olscher,JuliaM.Wittmayer,FlorAvelino,
andMatthewBach
Abstract For introducing our book, this chapter provides the arguments on why
transition management as a governance approach is suitable for cities, as a new
strategicplanningapproach.Italsoincludesathoroughliteraturereviewoftransi-
tion management applications from 2001 to 2017 that shows its spread as a
heuristic, operational and theoretical model for transition governance in multiple
sectorsandacrosslocal,regionalandnationallevels.Fromtheliteraturereviewand
thebookcontributionswederivetendirectionsforfutureresearchanddevelopment
oftransitionmanagementthatcanbenefitnotonlyitsoperationalapplicationsasa
process methodology but also its theoretical and heuristic strengths, pointing at
theoretical and conceptual deepening and broadening of its tenets and principles.
Next,thechapterprovidesanoverviewofthebook,itsfourpartsandsummariesof
allchaptercontributions.Last,weprovidea‘guide’onhowtoreadthisbook,and
howtobestusetheknowledgeandexperiencesharedinreaders’researchandurban
practice.
Introduction
Cities always face challenges and have the role to be fast paced problem solvers.
Solutions are tested and trialed in cities. With more combined challenges at hand
ranging from climate change, to urban poverty, cities search for new ways to
address them, also questing approaches that help them understand how problems
arecreatedaswellasforsearchingsolutions.Localgovernmentsbecomemoreand
moreequippedtonotonlyemploynewapproachesinsearchofsystemicsolutions
but also to recognize needs for innovative ways in engaging with urban change
agentsandtobroadentheirrolefrom‘planners’and‘regulators’tofacilitatorsand
N.Frantzeskaki(*)(cid:1)K.H€olscher(cid:1)J.M.Wittmayer(cid:1)F.Avelino(cid:1)M.Bach
DutchResearchInstituteForTransitions(DRIFT),FacultyofSocialSciences,Erasmus
UniversityRotterdam,Rotterdam,TheNetherlands
e-mail:[email protected];[email protected];[email protected];
[email protected];[email protected]
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