Experimental Governance and Urban Planning Futures
Five Strategic Functions for Municipalities in Local Innovation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22017982 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erica Eneqvist (0000-0002-8985-8630, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden), Andy Karvonen (0000-0002-0688-9547, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 183-194 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v6i1.3396 |
| OpenAlex | W3146526547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 46 |
Experimental governance is increasingly being implemented in cities around the world through laboratories, testbeds, platforms, and innovation districts to address a wide range of complex sustainability challenges. Experiments often involve public-private partnerships and triple helix collaborations with the municipality as a key stakeholder. This stretches the responsibilities of local authorities beyond conventional practices of policymaking and regulation to engage in more applied, collaborative, and recursive forms of planning. In this article, we examine how local authorities are involved in experimental governance and how this is influencing their approach to urban development. We are specifically interested in the multiple strategic functions that municipalities play in experimental governance and the broader implications to existing urban planning practices and norms. We begin the article by developing an analytic framework of the most common strategic functions of municipalities in experimental governance and then apply this framework to Stockholm, a city that has embraced experimental governance as a means to realise its sustainability ambitions. Our findings reveal how the strategic functions of visioning, facilitating, supporting, amplifying, and guarding are producing new opportunities and challenges to urban planning practices in twenty-first century cities
Business · Collaborative governance · Corporate governance · Environmental planning · Futures contract · Geography · Political science · Public relations · Regional science · Sociology · Stakeholder · Strategic planning · Sustainability · Urban planning · Engineering · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Public Administration · Smart Cities and Technologies · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Finance · Marketing
A tale of many cities
The long road from urban experimentation to the transformation of urban planning practice
The role of urban planning in designing future cities
Moving beyond implementation gaps in climate policy
Towards Liveability in Historic Centres
Experimental Logics of Street Transformations
Urban Planning by Experiment
Copenhagen’s Struggle to Become the World’s First Carbon Neutral Capital
Putting Health at the Heart of Local Planning Through an Integrated Municipal Health Strategy
Public values in the socio-technical construction of autonomous vehicle futures
A Catalyst for Innovation? A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Potential of Urban Experiments to Transform Urban Planning Practices
Realizing the Transformative Potential of Experimentation in Planning
What do we talk about when we talk about citizens? Public actors and researchers navigating citizen roles at the border of a semi-urban living lab
Legitimacy in municipal experimental governance
A tale of urban experimentation in three Swedish municipalities
Building institutional capacity through experimentation in sustainable urban development projects in Sweden
Situated dynamics of environmental governance in Swedish smart energy experimentation
Sustainable energy experiments and demonstrations
Accelerating transitions? Planning for decarbonisation in local and regional energy systems
Taking Time, Shaping Time
Navigating context in experiments
Is Managing Local Government Through an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem a New Approach
Finding solutions to problems that never existed
Municipally owned companies and sustainability transitions
Enhancing public value with co-creation in public land development
Governance for urban sustainability through real-world experimentation – Introducing an evaluation framework for transformative research involving public actors
The role of municipalities and their impact on the transitional capacity of city street experiments
Holding hands on the platform
Ecological design and climate change in Melbourne
New Municipalism and the Challenges of Design
Urban climate experiments
Une analyse des discours sur le rôle d’une expérimentation dans la production urbaine
The Place of Experimentation in Public Policymaking
Rethinking geographies of sovereignty
The Urban Lab
The Politics of Urban Governance
Learning the City
Experiments in climate governance – A systematic review of research on energy and built environment transitions
Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability
Governance experimentation and factors of success in socio-technical transitions in the urban water sector
Experimental governance
Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives
Urban experimentation and institutional arrangements
Experimenting for sustainability transitions
Sustainable–smart–resilient–low carbon–eco–knowledge cities; making sense of a multitude of concepts promoting sustainable urbanization
Governing in Europe
Conceptualizing Testbed Planning
Can local government play a greater role for community renewable energy? A case study from Australia
Urban living labs
Managing collaborative innovation in public bureaucracies
Sustainability experiments in Asia
Urban living laboratories
Capitalism and its future
Local Government and the Governing of Climate Change in Germany and the UK
The Role of Government in Voluntary Environmental Programmes
What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions
City Branding
Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change
Unbundling Stockholm
The Experimental City
Cities as leaders in EU multilevel climate governance
Public Value Governance
Facilitating Community, Enabling Democracy
Big Questions in Public Network Management Research
Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Lower Your Carbon Footprint!' - Urban Laboratories and the Governance of Low-Carbon Futures
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |