Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: action research; adaptive reuse; Addis Ababa light rail transit; Barcelona ICZM protocol; beach access; best practices; citizen satisfaction; civic initiatives; coastal zones; commons; conservation; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; cultural heritage; digital rights; distributive justice; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; economic ecosystems; education; financializaton; fourth industrial revolution; Geography; governance challenge; green technology; informal land-use practice; informality; infrastructure; innovation; institutional innovation; international comparative analysis; legal aspects; Lisboa/Lisbon; municipal urban planning; n/a; NEET; new working spaces; online research; people-centered smart cities; policy experimentation; precautionary principle; public bicycles; railway transport; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; resilience strategies; rural–urban ecosystems; smart cities; smart city; smart service; smartphone-based sharing-bicycles; social inclusion; social innovation; social innovation diffusion; socio-technical transition; state governance; structural equation model; Sub-Saharan Africa; sustainability; sustainable development; sustainable smart city; sustainable urban development; sustainable urban transport; technological innovation; the PRD; transitions to sustainability; transport infrastructure; urban informality; urban planning; urban planning and policy; urban rail; urban rehabilitation; Youth Guarantee Programme
• ISBN: 9783036541730; 303654173X; 3036541748; 9783036541747
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4174-7

How can a city advance from social invention to social innovation, to attain sustainable urban development (SUD)? Many new ideas, initiatives, and showcases for social innovation have been introduced; however, project-based forms of experimentation are often just part of the ongoing urban politics (or governmentality), and consequently somewhat ephemeral, with traditional siloed city administrations remaining a central obstacle to SUD. Our Special Issue presents twelve papers that address the question of social innovation in sustainable urban development from very different angles. The contributions span issues concerning smart cities, innovation in the adaptive reuse of urban heritage, as well as policy options for regions in transition. In terms of social innovation for SUD purposes, the presented solutions range from transferable legal formalizations to the creation of urban ecosystems whose institutional structures ensure the inclusion of the civil society. Instead of a comprehensive, integrative SUD, robust sectoral solutions, or even phased solutions, are more likely to be sought.