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作者

Katharina Hölscher;Niki Frantzeskaki;Timon McPhearson;Derk Loorbach

来源

CITIES,Vol.94,Issue1,Pages 186-199

语言

英文

关键字

100RC100 Resilient Cities;DCASNYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services;DEPNYC Department of Environmental Protection;DOBNYC Department of Buildings;DOTNYC Department of Transport;DPRNYC Parks and Recreation Department;EDCNYC Economic Development

作者单位

DRIFT, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam 3000DR, the Netherlands;Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia;Urban Ecology Lab, Environmental Studies, The New School, New York City, NY, USA;DRIFT, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam 3000DR, the Netherlands;Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia;Urban Ecology Lab, Environmental Studies, The New School, New York City, NY, USA

摘要

The narrative of urban sustainability transformations epitomises the hope that urban governance can create the conditions to plan and govern cities in a way that they contribute to local and global sustainability and resilience. So far, urban governance is not delivering: novel governance approaches are emerging in cities worldwide, yet are unable to transform conventional policymaking and planning to allow for innovative, co-beneficial and long-term solutions and actions to emerge and institutionalise. We present a capacities framework for urban transformations governance, starting from the need to fulfil distinct output functions (‘what needs to happen’) for mobilising and influencing urban transformation dynamics. The framework helps to diagnose and inform urban governance for responding to disturbances (stewarding capacity), phasing-out drivers of path-dependency (unlocking capacity), creating and embedding novelties (transformative capacity) and coordinating multi-actor processes (orchestrating capacity). Our case study of climate governance in New York City exemplifies the framework's applicability and explanatory power to identify conditions and activities facilitating transformation (governance), and to reveal gaps and barriers of these vis-à-vis the existing governance regime. Our framework thereby functions as a tool to explore what new forms of urban transformation governance are emerging, how effective these are, and how to strengthen capacities.