Urban Living Labs: Pathways of Sustainability Transitions towards Innovative City Systems from a Circular Economy Perspective

Urban Living Labs: Pathways of Sustainability Transitions towards Innovative City Systems from a Circular Economy Perspective

Ayala, Diego Hernando Florez (Universidade do Vale do Itajaí)
Alberton, Anete (Universidade do Vale do Itajaí)
Ersoy, A. (TU Delft Urban Development Management)

2022

Urban living labs (ULLs) are progressive forms of interventions that aim to fulfil the sustainability ambitions of cities and communities. They provide opportunities to translate new ideas into practice. The increasing interest among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in understanding sustainability transitions (ST) has brought new forms of experimentation through which cities and communities can be governed. Recently, there has been increasing attention towards the concept of circular economy (CE). This term promises the creation of distinct city systems in which material flows can be managed efficiently. In this article, we explore how ULLs can become pathways of sustainability transition towards innovative city systems from a circular economy perspective. By adopting a series of systematic analyses, i.e., multiple correspondence analysis and content analysis, we demonstrate the main pathways of circular economy-oriented innovative city systems that have been used in the literature. As a result of this work, we identify the main pathways, namely knowledge production, policy making, co-creation, geographical embeddedness, urban transitions, networks of cooperation among institutions, culture change, and collaborative engagement.

urban living labs
sustainability transitions
circular economy
innovative city systems
pathways

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7ac9111c-93d7-4e86-a49d-5bf1d2393a68

https://doi.org/10.3390/su14169831

2071-1050

Sustainability, 14 (16)

Institutional Repository

journal article

© 2022 Diego Hernando Florez Ayala, Anete Alberton, A. Ersoy