Abstract
Cities are open to trialing new approaches for advancing their planning and urban governance practice. Evidence from urban research and practice shows that transition management has been widely and diversely applied for strategic planning for climate mitigation and adaptation, regeneration, as well as sectoral (energy, water, waste) and social cohesion agendas. Despite the amounting evidence of the applications of transition management, the research has not identified what it is required in terms of skills to apply such a governance framework for participatory governance in cities. In this paper, we respond to this gap by providing evidence from 11 cities across Europe that applied transition management as an approach to participatory urban governance for unpacking what transformative actions are required to strengthen urban resilience in deprived neighborhoods. Our multi-case study research and analysis reveals that a multitude of vocational and academic skills are required for the application of transition management approach including systems thinking, creativity, theory-to-practice application skills, diplomatic skills for forging partnerships and learning alliances and openness to learning-by-doing during experimentation. Transition management application in cities in the Resilient Europe project brought about positive outcomes in terms of developing new skills, embedding new knowledge about urban resilience and transition management in planning.
Highlights
Cities are at the forefront of driving transitions to sustainability, livability, and climate resilience [1,2,3]
We present the skills required per phase of transition management cycle with the emphasis of the results
We contend that the list of skills we present is neither exhaustive nor finite and that in other applications of transition management additional or even less skills may be required depending on the design of the process as well as the scope of the transition management process itself
Summary
Cities are at the forefront of driving transitions to sustainability, livability, and climate resilience [1,2,3]. European cities are diverse in size and urban form; in their majority are compact cities with densifying strategies in place, making urban regeneration projects challenging due to the competing interests for the use and function of public urban places and their symbolic meanings Another characteristic is that many European cities, especially medium-sized cities, have put in place daring climate change adaptation agendas as well as urban infrastructure renewal projects as combined responses to deal with underlying issues (such as social cohesion, urban inequalities, and migration). To understand the heart of the problem requires multiple perspectives to come together and in a facilitated mode to co-create knowledge on new views of the problem and on possible sustainable solutions In this context, cities need to update their governance practice and open up to new methods and approaches
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