A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities

Edited by Kes McCormick, Professor, Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE),Lund University, Sweden, James Evans, Professor, Manchester Urban Institute and Department of Geography, The University of Manchester, UK, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Associate Professor, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE),Lund University, Sweden and Niki Frantzeskaki, Professor, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Contents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities 1 Kes McCormick, James Evans, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Niki Frantzeskaki PART I TAKING STOCK 2 Assessing the research on sustainable cities and communities: how to meet the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals? 17 James Evans and Katie Elder 3 Sustainable urbanism is a failed project and what we can do about it 31 Robert Krueger 4 Researching the urban sustainability agenda in India: where to start? 45 Tathagata Chatterji PART II NAVIGATING DYNAMICS 5 Energy communities as accelerators of energy transition in cities 67 Jenny Palm 6 Share and repair in cities: agenda for research and practice on circular urban resilience 79 Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Oksana Mont 7 The need for a systemic approach to informal settlements upgrading 101 Ignacio Loor PART III SHAPING GOVERNANCE 8 Grassroots strategies for environmental governance and circular transitions in cities: lessons from Lagos and Melbourne 113 Olamide Shittu 9 Blessed mess: new modes of thinking, acting, and learning for sustainable urban transformations 129 Andrew Karvonen and Jonas Bylund 10 Climate city contracts? Governing towards climate neutral cities 139 Katherine Shabb, Kes McCormick, Selma Mujkic and Stefan Anderberg PART IV EMBRACING JUSTICE 11 Urban transitions and green space provision: just and green, or just green? 153 Farahnaz Sharifi and Christian (Andi) Nygaard 12 Representing cultural diversity in urban spaces and planning regulations for sustainable cities 169 Fatemeh Shahani 13 Sustainability and the governance of urban green space 181 Md. Badrul Hyder, Angelika Papadopoulos and Wendy Steele PART V REFRAMING PERSPECTIVES 14 The hidden perversity of demand response: one of the building blocks of smart cities 201 Stephanie Pincetl 15 Nature-based urbanism: designing for and with nature for sustainable cities and communities 209 Melissa Pineda-Pinto and Niki Frantzeskaki 16 Regenerative cultures for sustainable cities and communities 229 Katherine Foo Index