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The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions - Knowledge, Power and Governance (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions - Knowledge, Power and Governance (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
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Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a
principal source of the environmental and social sustainability
challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for
addressing these challenges. Socio-technical systems are at the
heart of these challenges as they configure central aspects of
urban life: from mobility and energy infrastructures to leisure
activities and patterns of mobility. This observation has led to
substantial interest in how societies might initiate and actively
steer radical transitions in these systems in the pursuit of
sustainable urban futures. This book contributes to emerging
debates on the politics of urban transitions by examining the
intimate interlinkages between knowledge, power and governance.
Drawing upon real-world examples of urban governance, the authors
explore the strategies, struggles and controversies involved in
configuring knowledge and how knowledge constructions influence
governance by rendering some concerns and issues visible and
valuable, while obscuring others. The book draws attention to how
novel ways of conceptualising, knowing and observing
socio-technical systems may be harnessed productively in redefining
the power relationships underpinning unsustainable practices.
Understanding these dynamics can ultimately inform and enable new
approaches to support much-needed urban transitions. This book
provides a compelling examination of urban knowledge politics for
the twenty-first century that will be of great value to academics,
policy-makers and practitioners working in the social sciences,
urban studies, geography, urban governance or sustainability
transitions.
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