Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions

Jens Stissing Jensen is Assistant Professor, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark.Matthew Cashmore is Professor in Environmental Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway.Philipp Späth is Senior Scientist / Research Group Coordinator at the Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany.

• 1. Introduction : the knowledge politics of urban sustainability transitions Matthew Cashmore, Jens Stissing Jensen and Philipp Späth 2. Governing radical societal change: politics, power and knowledge Matthew Cashmore 3. Smart urbanism in Barcelona: a knowledge-politics perspective Evelien de Hoop, Adrian Smith, Wouter Boon, Rachel Macrorie, Simon Marvin and Rob Raven 4. The professional knowledge politics of urban transport transitions in the greater Copenhagen region Jens Stissing Jensen and Ulrik Jørgensen 5. The power-knowledge of best practice: governing climate change in German municipalities Nanja Christina Nagorny-Koring 6. Competing knowledge assemblages in Danish heat governance Jens Stissing Jensen and Peter Karnøe 7. Urban metabolism as governmentality: governing the city of flows Vanesa Castan Broto and Louise Guibrunet 8. Exploring the epistemic politics of urban niche wxperiments Matthew Cook, Ralph Horne, Stephen Potter and Alan-Miguel Valdez 9. It’s the complexity stupid! How transition management politicises and reimagines Rotterdam’s mobility system Shivant Jhagroe and Derk Loorbach 10. Conclusions and perspectives Jens Stissing Jensen, Philipp Späth and Matthew Cashmore

"Getting to the heart of the key dynamics of knowledge and power configuring the possibilities for urban sustainability transitions, this fantastic edited collection brings new insights into how the ways in which we come to know the city shape its futures." — Harriet Bulkeley, Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK"Cities are at the forefront of the effort to transition to a more sustainable society. Without knowledge, no direction, but without debate, no legitimacy. This volume is full of insights in the intricacies of how knowledge features in real world urban politics. It contains many fresh ideas and is of interest to academics, policy makers and other urban agents of change." — Maarten Hajer, Professor of Urban Futures, Utrecht University, The Netherlands