Low-carbon cities (LCCs) have attracted considerable attention from researchers over the
past 15 years as an important initiative for mitigating global warming. The increased pilot …

Cities and urban areas are increasingly recognized as strategic arenas for climate change
action. Processes of urban governance addressing climate change reconfigure the politics …

A fixation on 'scaling up'has captured current innovation discourses and, with it, political and
economic life at large. Perhaps most visible in the rise of platform technologies, big data and …

While scholars critique the first-generation of the corporate smart city for failing to tackle
people-oriented agendas and authentically respond to the needs of residents, many point to …

This chapter explores the notion of experimentation in the context of urban sustainability
transitions. It focuses on the sustainability transitions field apart from the wider literature on …

Highlights•ULL are sites to design, test and learn from innovation in real time.•ULL are
proliferating rapidly while our understanding of their nature and purpose is still evolving.•We …

Urban living labs (ULLs) are emerging as a form of collective urban governance and
experimentation to address sustainability challenges and opportunities created by …

In recent years, the world has seen the emergence of a number of urban projects which,
under the banner of experimentation, have promoted alternative models of city-making …

Test beds and living labs have emerged as a prominent approach to foster innovation
across geographical regions and technical domains. They feed on the popular “grand …

Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected
challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to …