Abstract The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21)
highlighted the importance of cities to climate action, as well as the unjust burdens borne by …

Networked urban governance is emerging as a major feature of metropolitan strategy and
activity. The field of urban studies is yet to deeply engage in the debates on the new forms of …

In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

A growing number of cities are preparing for climate change impacts by develo**
adaptation plans. However, little is known about how these plans and their implementation …

In our 2005 paper, Rethinking Sustainable Cities, we made a case for the increasing
significance of climate change in the urban politics of sustainability. Taking a multilevel …

Many cities are pursuing the low-carbon practices to reduce CO 2 and other environmental
emissions. However, it is still unclear which aspects a low-carbon city (LCC) covers and how …

Urban infrastructure has become a major focus of recent debates on the rapid urbanisation
of our planet. Few attempts, however, have been made to examine the nature, politics and …

The technological vision of smart urbanism has been promoted as a silver bullet for urban
problems and a major market opportunity. The search is on for firms and governments to find …

Debates about climate justice have mainly occurred at the international scale, and have
focussed on the rights and responsibilities of nation-states to either be protected from the …

This paper asks two–relatively simple–questions: can cities shape socio-technical
transitions? And how would we know if they were? There are three key objectives. The first …