Urban Planning by Experiment
Practices, Outcomes, and Impacts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Scholl (0000-0002-9401-4416, Maastricht University), Joop de Kraker (0000-0002-7968-0680, Maastricht University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 156-160 |
| 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.v6i1.4248 |
| OpenAlex | W3141803862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 14 |
The impact of urban experimentation on urban planning approaches is so far insufficiently assessed and discussed. This thematic issue sets out to investigate the possibilities and limitations of ‘urban planning by experiment,’ defined as an approach that uses experimentation to innovate and improve urban planning instruments, approaches, and outcomes. It brings together eight contributions presenting original research on urban experimentation and its relation to urban planning. All contributions are empirically grounded in (illustrative) case studies, mostly from European cities. Here, we summarize and discuss the major findings across the eight contributions with respect to three key themes: the practices of urban experimentation, its outcomes, and its impacts on urban planning. We conclude that the practices of urban experimentation described in the contributions generated a wide variety of substantive and learning outcomes, which, according to the authors, represent worthwhile additions or alternatives to the current repertoire of approaches and instruments of urban planning. However, except for a single case, large-scale integration of experimentation in established approaches to urban planning was not observed, let alone a complete transformation of urban planning practices. An area for further research concerns the relation between the way urban experiments are organized and conducted, and their impact on urban planning
Cartography · Civil engineering · Environmental planning · Geography · Management science · Regional planning · Regional science · Urban density · Urban design · Urban planning · Computer Science · Engineering · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Urban Planning and Valuation
The long road from urban experimentation to the transformation of urban planning practice
Evaluation of the urban living lab in HEIs towards education for sustainable development (E-ULL-HEIs)
Towards Liveability in Historic Centres
The Shrinking City as a Testing Ground for Urban Degrowth Practices
A Catalyst for Innovation? A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Potential of Urban Experiments to Transform Urban Planning Practices
Innovating for Uncertain Futures
Realizing the Transformative Potential of Experimentation in Planning
How to transform urban spaces and mobility
How urban living lab funding shapes research practices
The next 30 years
A tale of urban experimentation in three Swedish municipalities
Building institutional capacity through experimentation in sustainable urban development projects in Sweden
Urban Policymakers’ Perspectives on the Equity Impacts and Risks of Local Energy and Mobility Decarbonisation Policies
Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’
Natural Experiments in Planning Research
Educating planning professionals to promote the transformation towards carbon-free cities and regions – a survey of planning schools in Europe
The ecosystem services concept in urban planning
Street Experiments and Covid ‐19
City street experiment for transformative change - municipal challenges of re-making public spaces
Socio-material governance tensions in nature-based solution experiments
Urban climate experiments
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research
Social Encounter by Experiment? Potentials and Pitfalls of Real-World Labs for Urban Planning
Planning from Failure
Urban Planning by Experiment at Precinct Scale
Conceptualizing Testbed Planning
Contextualising Urban Experimentation
Planning for 1000 Years
The Practice of Urban Experimentation in Dutch City Labs
How Cities Learn
Experimental Governance and Urban Planning Futures
Urban living laboratories
Urban transformative capacity
Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change
The Experimental City
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |