How Cities Learn: From Experimentation to Transformation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21720%2F21%3A00353537" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21720/21:00353537 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i1.3545" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i1.3545</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v6i1.3545" target="_blank" >10.17645/up.v6i1.3545</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How Cities Learn: From Experimentation to Transformation

Original language description

Cities must change rapidly to address a range of sustainability challenges. While urban experimentation has prospered as a framework for innovation, it has struggled to stimulate broader transformation. We offer a novel contribution to this debate by focusing on what municipalities learn from experimentation and how this drives organisational change. The practicalities of how municipalities learn and change has received relatively little attention, despite the recognised importance of learning within the literature on urban experiments and the central role of municipalities in enabling urban transformation. We address this research gap, drawing on four years of in-depth research coproduced with European municipal project coordinators responsible for designing and implementing the largest urban research and innovation projects ever undertaken. This cohort of professionals plays a critical role in urban experimentation and transformation, funnelling billions of Euros into trials of new solutions to urban challenges and coordinating large public-private partnerships to deliver them. For our respondents, learning how to experiment more effectively and embedding these lessons into their organisations was the most important outcome of these projects. We develop the novel concept of process learning to capture the importance of experimentation in driving organisational change. Process learning is significant because it offers a new way to understand the relationship between experimentation and urban transformation and should form the focus of innovation projects that seek to prompt broader urban transformation, rather than technical performance. We conclude by identifying implications for urban planning and innovation funding.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1605" target="_blank" >LO1605: University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings – Sustainability Phase</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Urban Planning

ISSN

2183-7635

e-ISSN

2183-7635

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PT - PORTUGAL

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

171-182

UT code for WoS article

000634010300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85103430604