Co-creating Sustainable Urban Futures

Forward - My experience with Transition Management.- Transition management in and for cities: introducing a new governance approach to address urban challenges.- Understanding the urban context and its challenges.- Introducing sustainability transitions' thinking in urban contexts.- Transition Management: Guiding Principles and Applications. Urban Planning and Transition Management: Rationalities, instruments and dialectics.- Empowering actors in transition management in and for cities.- "Starting up Transition Management: A closer view on the systems analysis and how it initiated transformative thinking in Ghent and Aberdeen cities".- Transition Management in urban neighbourhoods: The case of Carnisse, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.- 9. A German experience: the challenges of mediating 'ideal-type' Transition Management in Ludwigsburg.- 10. Transition Management for local sustainability - A case study from La Botija protected area, San Marcos de Colón, Honduras.- 11. Translating transitions thinking and transition management into the city planning world.- Transition Management in Urban China: Co-creation of New Homes or a Monopoly Game?- 13. A Transition Management Approach for Shrinking Cities in the United States.- Context-driven Transition Management as a necessary vehicle for sustainable urban futures in Suriname.- Urban Transition Management as a democratic practice? The case of Rotterdam's waterfront regeneration.So what? Transition management as a transformative approach to support governance capacities of cities.- Appendix - Exercises and Exam Questions for Lecturers using this book.