Abstract
Experimentation has become one of the prevailing modes of governing the transition toward sustainable practices in urban environments. The spatial variation of urban sustainability transition has been attributed to a variety of conditions erected at different spatial scales. What remains less well-understood is how spatial situatedness shapes agency in urban experiments and the shapes agency can take is a field that requires further research and frameworks. The paper addresses this gap by introducing a framework from the literature on regional development, identifying three distinct types of agency that shape regional development processes. Combining this framework with a process perspective on urban experiments, we develop an analytical framework, which allows for a more granular understanding of agency in urban sustainability transitions. The analytical framework is then brought to use in a case study of an urban experiment aiming to electrify public transport in Gothenburg, Sweden.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 214-227 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions |
| Volume | 45 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 Dec |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The funding of ElectriCity can also be connected to place-based leadership. The project was mainly funded by VG, CoG, Chalmers University and Volvo ( N.A., 2016 ). For this purpose, Volvo was granted financial support from the Swedish Energy Agency ( Energimyndigheten, 2014 ). However, this funding benefited other participating parties as well such as the consultants who were initially co-funded by Volvo and CoG and later by Volvo alone (I5).
Publisher Copyright:
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Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Human Geography
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Free keywords
- Climate action
- Human agency
- Institutional change
- Public transport
- Urban experimentation
- Urban governance
