Journal: npj Urban Sustainability

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npj Urban Sustain

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Springer

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2661-8001

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  • Harnessing sensing systems towards urban sustainability transformation
    Item type: Journal Article
    Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne; Switalski, Michal; Fagerholm, Nora; et al. (2021)
    npj Urban Sustainability
    Recent years have seen a massive development of geospatial sensing systems informing the use of space. However, rarely do these sensing systems inform transformation towards urban sustainability. Drawing on four global urban case examples, we conceptualize how passive and active sensing systems should be harnessed to secure an inclusive, sustainable and resilient urban transformation. We derive principles for stakeholders highlighting the need for an iterative dialogue along a sensing loop, new modes of governance enabling direct feeding of sensed information, an account for data biases in the sensing processes and a commitment to high ethical standards, including open access data sharing.
  • An urban take on sustainable development policies and corresponding positioning strategies
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wittwer, Stefan; Hofer, Katrin; Kaufmann, David (2023)
    npj Urban Sustainability
    Cities have emerged as policy actors of global relevance in sustainable development, and their strengthened position challenges the primacy of national states in this area. To account for this shift and for potential emerging contestations between cities and national states, we propose a framework to understand national–urban relations in sustainable development policy-making. Based on a selection of twelve case study vignettes from European cities, we identify and discuss four ideal types of urban sustainable development policy, which are classified depending on their congruence with the national policy agenda and the scale of the issue at hand. Building on this typology, we reflect on positioning strategies that cities can develop to support, promote or defend these policies. We argue that accounting for these different positioning strategies is important for understanding how cities seek to put specifically urban takes of sustainable development on global agendas.
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