Urban living laboratories: Conducting the experimental city?. (October 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Urban living laboratories: Conducting the experimental city?. (October 2019)
- Main Title:
- Urban living laboratories: Conducting the experimental city?
- Authors:
- Bulkeley, Harriet
Marvin, Simon
Palgan, Yuliya Voytenko
McCormick, Kes
Breitfuss-Loidl, Marija
Mai, Lindsay
von Wirth, Timo
Frantzeskaki, Niki - Abstract:
- 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 experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demonstration projects, transition management processes to grassroots innovations – but also an increasing sensibility amongst the research community that urban interventions can be considered in experimental terms. Yet as research has progressed, it has become clear that experimentation is not a singular phenomenon that can be readily understood using any one conceptual entry point. In this paper, we focus on one particular mode of experimentation – the urban living laboratory (ULL) – and develop a typology through which to undertake a comparative analysis of 40 European ULLs, to understand how and why such forms of experimentation are being designed and implemented, and to identify the particular forms of experimentation they entail. We argue that there are distinct types of ULL taking shape, delimited by the ways in which they are designed and deployed through, on the one hand, specific kinds of configuration and practice and, on the other hand, by the ways in which they take laboratory form: the different dispositions towards the laboratory they entail. We propose three 'ideal' ULL types – strategic, civic and organic – and argue that these can be placed along the spectrum of four dispositions: trial, enclave, demonstration andThe 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 experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demonstration projects, transition management processes to grassroots innovations – but also an increasing sensibility amongst the research community that urban interventions can be considered in experimental terms. Yet as research has progressed, it has become clear that experimentation is not a singular phenomenon that can be readily understood using any one conceptual entry point. In this paper, we focus on one particular mode of experimentation – the urban living laboratory (ULL) – and develop a typology through which to undertake a comparative analysis of 40 European ULLs, to understand how and why such forms of experimentation are being designed and implemented, and to identify the particular forms of experimentation they entail. We argue that there are distinct types of ULL taking shape, delimited by the ways in which they are designed and deployed through, on the one hand, specific kinds of configuration and practice and, on the other hand, by the ways in which they take laboratory form: the different dispositions towards the laboratory they entail. We propose three 'ideal' ULL types – strategic, civic and organic – and argue that these can be placed along the spectrum of four dispositions: trial, enclave, demonstration and platform. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- European urban and regional studies. Volume 26:Number 4(2019:Oct.)
- Journal:
- European urban and regional studies
- Issue:
- Volume 26:Number 4(2019:Oct.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 26, Issue 4 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0026-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 317
- Page End:
- 335
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10
- Subjects:
- Disposition -- experimentation -- governance -- sustainability -- urban living laboratory
Regional planning -- Europe -- Periodicals
Regional economics -- Periodicals
Cities and towns -- Europe -- Periodicals
307.76094 - Journal URLs:
- http://eur.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0969776418787222 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0969-7764
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