Urban sustainability transitions / edited by Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castan Broto, Lars Coenen and Derk Loorbach.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Urban sustainability transitions : the dynamics and opportunities of sustainability transitions in cities / Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castan Broto, Lars Coenen and Derk Loorbach -- Anchoring global networks in urban niches : how on-site water recycling emerged in three Chinese cities / Christian Binz and Bernhard Truffer -- Understanding the policy realities of urban transitions / Yvette Bettini, Tracey Arklay, and Brian W. Head -- The governance of transformative change : tracing the pathway of the sustainability transition in Vancouver, Canada / Sarah Burch -- Transitioning complex urban systems : the importance of urban ecology for sustainability in New York City / Timon McPhearson and Katinka Wijsman -- The role of place-specific dynamics in the destabilization of the Danish water regime : an actor-network view on urban sustainability transitions / C.F. Fratini and J.S. Jensen -- Village communities and social innovation policies in Seoul : exploring the urban dimension of grassroots niches / Marc Wolfram -- Spatialising urban sustainability transitions : eco-cities, multilevel perspectives and the political ecology of scale in the Bohai Rim, China / Federico Caprotti and Nichola Harmer -- Urban sustainability transitions : opportunities and challenges for institutional change / Lea Fuenfschilling -- The rise, fall and resurrection of waste-to-energy technologies in Berlin's infrastructure history / Timothy Moss -- The spatial complexity of sustainability transitions in the cities of the East / Anne Maassen -- From building small urban spaces for a car-free life to challenging the global regime of automobility : cases from Vienna and Freiburg / Philipp Späth and Michael Ornetzeder -- Multiple transitions : energy precariousness and "transient" urban tenants / Saska Petrova -- Worth the trouble?! : an evaluative scheme for urban sustainability transition labs (USTL) and an application to the ustl in Phoenix, Arizona / Arnim Wiek, Braden Kay and Nigel Forrest -- Change and persistency : understanding social-ecological transition in a post-socialist city : the example of Leipzig, Germany / Dagmar Haase, Annegret Haase and Dieter Rink -- A multi-actor perspective on urban sustainability transitions / Flor Avelino and Julia Wittmayer -- Cities as arenas of low-carbon transitions : friction zones in the negotiation of low-carbon futures / Harald Rohracher and Philipp Späth -- Mediators acting in urban transition processes : Carlsberg City district and super cycle highways / Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda, Anne Katrine Braagaard Harders and Morten Elle -- Flows, infrastructures and the African urban transition / Mark Swilling, Josephine Musango, Blake Robinson and Camaren Peter -- Focusing on ecosystem services in the multiple social-ecological transitions of Lodz / Jakub Kronenberg, Kinga Krauze and Iwona Wagner -- The politics of urban sustainability transitions / Thaddeus R. Miller and Anthony M. Levenda -- Sustainability transitions and the city : linking to transition studies and looking forward / John Grin, Niki Frantzeskaki, Vanesa Castán Broto and Lars Coenen.