The Experimental City

James Evans (University of Manchester, UK), Andrew Karvonen, Rob Raven

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English

Routledge
16 May 2016

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism

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.

Edited by: James Evans (University of Manchester UK), Andrew Karvonen, Rob Raven
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781138856202
ISBN 10: 1138856207
Series: Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 16 May 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Evans is a Professor of Geography at the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK. Andrew Karvonen is Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Manchester, UK and co-director of the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy. Rob Raven is Professor of Institutions and Transitions at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Reviews for The Experimental City

If the much talked about politics of green transformations during the post-2009 era is to be more than another fad, it will have to find traction in the world's cities where the majority of the population now lives. This book convincingly argues that this is starting to happen as 'urban experiments' mushroom across the global regions of the world. This first provocative review of the evolutionary potential of these actually existing processes of change starts off in Chapter 2 with a remarkably useful definition of 'urban experimentation' that is then explored by people from many different disciplines and perspectives. The analyses emerging from this book raise the possibility that 'urban experimentation' may well be the emergent mode of governance that replaces both bureaucratic managerialism and the business-led public-private partnerships that underpinned neo-liberal corporatism and splintered urbanism. Entrepreneurs, innovators and knowledge networks become the new players in a world where cities become laboratories for the future. Professor Mark Swelling, Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.