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DOI	10.3390/su11174653
	What does urban transformation look like? Findings from a global prize competition
	Maassen A.; Galvin M.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	20711050
卷号	11 期号:17
英文摘要	Different disciplines are grappling with the concept of 'urban transformation' reflecting its planetary importance and urgency. A recent systematic review traces the emergence of a normative epistemic community that is concerned with helping make sustainable urban transformation a reality. Our contribution to this growing body of work springs out of a recent initiative at theWorld Resources Institute, namely, the WRI Ross Prize for Cities, a global award for transformative projects that have ignited sustainable changes in their city. In this paper we explain the competition-based approach that was used to source transformative initiatives and relate our findings to existing currents in urban transformation scholarship and key debates. We focus on one of the questions at the heart of the normative urban transformation agenda: what does urban transformation look like in practice? Based on an analysis of the five finalists, we describe urban transformation as encompassing a plurality of contextual and relative changes, which may progress and accelerate positively, or regress over time. An evaluative approach that considers varying 'degrees' and 'types' of urban transformation is proposed to establish meaning within single cases and across several cases of urban transformation. © 2019 by the authors.
英文关键词	Interdisciplinary; Research; Systemic change; Transformation; Transitions; Urban; Urbanization
来源期刊	Sustainability (Switzerland)
来源机构	世界资源研究所
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/125951
作者单位	World Resources Institute, 10 G Street NE, Washington, DC 20002, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Maassen A.,Galvin M.. What does urban transformation look like? Findings from a global prize competition[J]. 世界资源研究所,2019,11(17).
APA	Maassen A.,&Galvin M..(2019).What does urban transformation look like? Findings from a global prize competition.Sustainability (Switzerland),11(17).
MLA	Maassen A.,et al."What does urban transformation look like? Findings from a global prize competition".Sustainability (Switzerland) 11.17(2019).