Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development

Abstract

Introduction Part 1: Social Innovations for Sustainability 1. HES-based Transdisciplinary Case Studies: The Example of Sustainable Transformation of Leisure Traffic in the City of Basel 2. Smart Growth - Sustainability Innovations 3. Participatory Budgeting and Urban Sustainability: Reviewing Lessons from Latin America 4. Urban Governance and Climate Change Experiments 5. Rubanisation 6. Resource-Oriented Monitoring of Sustainable Urban Development Part 2: Urban Transformations 7. The Social Dimensions of Urban Transformation: Contemporary Diversity in Global North Cities and the Challenges for Urban Cohesion 8. Privatization, Urban Fragmentation, and Sustainable Development 9. New Urban Players in Africa and Asia: The Role of Grassroots Organizations 10. Does Size Matter? A Critical Assessment of the Mega-city Discourse 11. Urban Development, Climate Change and Associated Risks in Ho Chi Minh City: Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Challenges for a Rapidly Growing Megacity 12. Mumbai, the Megacity and the Global City: A View of the Spatial Dimension of Urban Resilience Part 3: Urban Transition Management - from an Institutionalized Perspective 13. Managing Metropolises by Negotiating Urban Growth 14. Cross-national Urban Sustainability Learning: A Case Study on Continuous Interaction in Green Infrastructure Policies 15. Difu: Case Study: The Idea of Sustainable City Budgets in Germany 16. Syntegrating City Management 17. Sustainability is Self-evident in High Quality Planning: The Role of the International Urban Planner 18. The City as a Customer: Siemens and Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Part 4: The (New) Role of Science 19. Transdisciplinarity 20. Towards a Socio-metabolic History of Cities 21. Urban Transdisciplinarity in a National Program for Applied Megacity Research 22. The Institutionalization of Interfaces as a Prerequisite in Transformations towards Sustainability 23. The Changing Role of the Science and Technology Policy Advisor in a New Global Context 24. The Role of Universities in Fostering Urban and Regional Sustainability