Table of Contents

Contents:

1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Sustainable
Cities and Communities 1
Kes McCormick, James Evans, Yuliya Voytenko
Palgan and Niki Frantzeskaki

PART I TAKING STOCK
2 Assessing the research on sustainable cities and
communities: how to meet the ambitions of the
Sustainable Development Goals? 17
James Evans and Katie Elder
3 Sustainable urbanism is a failed project and what
we can do about it 31
Robert Krueger
4 Researching the urban sustainability agenda in
India: where to start? 45
Tathagata Chatterji

PART II NAVIGATING DYNAMICS
5 Energy communities as accelerators of energy
transition in cities 67
Jenny Palm
6 Share and repair in cities: agenda for research
and practice on circular urban resilience 79
Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Oksana Mont
7 The need for a systemic approach to informal
settlements upgrading 101
Ignacio Loor

PART III SHAPING GOVERNANCE
8 Grassroots strategies for environmental
governance and circular transitions in cities:
lessons from Lagos and Melbourne 113
Olamide Shittu
9 Blessed mess: new modes of thinking, acting, and
learning for sustainable urban transformations 129
Andrew Karvonen and Jonas Bylund
10 Climate city contracts? Governing towards climate
neutral cities 139
Katherine Shabb, Kes McCormick, Selma Mujkic
and Stefan Anderberg

PART IV EMBRACING JUSTICE
11 Urban transitions and green space provision: just
and green, or just green? 153
Farahnaz Sharifi and Christian (Andi) Nygaard
12 Representing cultural diversity in urban spaces
and planning regulations for sustainable cities 169
Fatemeh Shahani
13 Sustainability and the governance of urban green space 181
Md. Badrul Hyder, Angelika Papadopoulos and Wendy Steele

PART V REFRAMING PERSPECTIVES
14 The hidden perversity of demand response: one
of the building blocks of smart cities 201
Stephanie Pincetl
15 Nature-based urbanism: designing for and with
nature for sustainable cities and communities 209
Melissa Pineda-Pinto and Niki Frantzeskaki
16 Regenerative cultures for sustainable cities and
communities 229
Katherine Foo

Index

About the Author

Edited by Kes McCormick, Professor, Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE),Lund University, Sweden, James Evans, Professor, Manchester Urban Institute and Department of Geography, The University of Manchester, UK, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Associate Professor, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE),Lund University, Sweden and Niki Frantzeskaki, Professor, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands