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Urban futures: Systemic or system changing interventions? A literature review using Meadows' leverage points as analytical framework
- Source :
- Cities. 104:102808
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Urban-led change for sustainability is a key site of intervention in delivering the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals. Within this broad discourse, four umbrella concepts have emerged in recent decades: urban sustainability, urban transitions, urban transformation and urban resilience. This literature review aims to offer a qualitative assessment of the types of interventions currently being advocated for in academic-led literature. Firstly, the paper presents an overview of the concepts and summarises current gaps; secondly, it uses Donella Meadows' Leverage Points as analytical framework to categorise and discuss interventions supported in the literature. Our findings indicate that although the literature advocates for systemic change towards sustainability as an outcome of a large palette of urban interventions, less consideration is given to the means of achieving these. The findings highlight the need to focus on processes as much as on outcomes when advocating, devising or implementing interventions. This requires a process of understanding and negotiating trade-offs and the different worldviews and values that underpin them. Addressing this entails going beyond technocratic skills through cultivating reflexivity, effective communities of practice and new forms of organising for knowledge production, as well as interrogate our roles and agency as urban researchers.
- Subjects :
- 1604 Human Geography
Sociology and Political Science
CITIES
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SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
Urban studies
Psychological intervention
Social Sciences
02 engineering and technology
Development
Urban sustainability
Reflexivity
Sociology
POLITICS
AGENDA
Urban & Regional Planning
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Sustainable development
Urban transitions
Leverage points, urban interventions
business.industry
05 social sciences
021107 urban & regional planning
Technocracy
Public relations
POLICY
Urban transformation
THINKING
TRANSFORMATION
Urban Studies
RESILIENT CITY
Negotiation
1205 Urban and Regional Planning
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Urban resilience
Sustainability
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE
CHALLENGE
business
050703 geography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02642751
- Volume :
- 104
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5477c3208962bd416a25e4473a0ed297