DIALOGUES OF SUSTAINABLE URBANISATION: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND TRANSITIONS TO URBAN CONTEXTS EDITED BY JENNA CONDIE AND ANNA MARY COOPER University of Western Sydney Penrith Dialogues of sustainable urbanisation: Social science research and transitions to urban contexts Published by University of Western Sydney Copyright © 2015 Dialogues of sustainable urbanisation: Social science research and transitions to urban contexts by University of Western Sydney is licensed under a creative commons attribution 4.0 international licence, except where otherwise noted. CONTENTS Welcome to the book of blogs Jenna Condie, University of Western Sydney, Australia, and Anna Mary Cooper, University of Salford, UK Foreword Laura van Veenendaal, International Social Science Council Foreword Etienne Nel, Comparative Research on Urban Poverty Programme (CROP) DEFINITIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY 1. Social sustainability: Towards some explanation Taimaz Larimian, University of Otago, New Zealand 2. Principles for sustainable urban places: the why, what and how Christopher Luederitz and Beatrice John, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany URBAN GOVERNANCE 3. A tale of two cities: Density regulations vs reality Arif Hasan, International Institute of Environment and Development, Pakistan 4. Using urban planning to create a culture of sustainability Natalie Rosales Pérez, El Colegio Mexiquense, Mexico 5. Negotiating sustainability with Sustainability Assessment Samuel Hayes, University of Liverpool, UK 6. Promoting urban sustainability through managing ecological systems Kerry Bobbins, Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), South Africa 7. In defence of top-down sustainability planning: The case of Sejong City Robert Cowley, University of Westminster, UK 8. Human security, risk management and urban sustainability in Lagos mega- city, Nigeria Olayinka Akanle, University of Ibada, Nigeria 9. Food Sustainability in Urban Africa Chijioke J. Evoh, Independent Researcher, New York 10. Dilemmas of urban governance and infrastructure deficit in Africa Peter Elias, University of Lagos, Nigeria 11. The paradox of urban policy Lee Pugalis, Northumbria University, UK ENGAGED CITIZENS 12. Coordination vs organisation: a communitarian bottom-up approach in urban planning Domenico Maria Caprioli, University of Naples, Italy 13. Making most of the European Capital of Culture brand through inclusive urban governance Ágnes Németh, University of Eastern Finland, Finland 14. Participatory budgeting in Pune city: A mirage! Pooja Shetty, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India 15. Sustainable Development in the Canadian Polar Region Nabil Malik, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Canada 16. Improving housing in Asia and turning traditional top-down funding on its head Diana Mitlin, International Institute of Environment and Development, UK 17. Co-creating a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for sustainable and liveable urban futures Jonas Bylund, JPI Urban Europe 18. Assessing and communicating urban sustainability: comparing the Ecological Footprint and the CERCLE multi-criteria indicator set Tobias Luthe, University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur, and Jan Silberberger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland URBAN DIVIDES 19. Gated communities of Istanbul: Spaces of upper class exclusivity, escapism and stigma Basak Tanulku, Independent Consultant, Turkey 20. Gated neighbourhoods in Vilnius region: Socio-spatial residential differentiation Gintarė Pociūtė-Sereikienė, Lithuanian Social Research Centre; Dovilė Krupickaitė, Vilnius University, and Laura Peciukonytė, Public Policy and Management Institute Group, Lithuania 21. #BlackLivesMatter: Envisioning urban futures Rachael Baker, York University, Canada 22. Unsustainable status quo: A new approach to understanding inaction in empty home ownership in the North West of England Danielle Butler, University of Salford, and John Hughes, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, UK 23. Compact housing for demographic change in Auckland, New Zealand Mohammad Shadab Khan, University of Auckland, New Zealand 24. The future of slums hinges on sustainability Mukesh Kumar Gupta, Central European University, Hungary 25. Resettlement and environmental impacts on the Subaltern slum: accumulation by dispossession in the Philippine slum Christopher John “CJ” Chanco, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines MOVEMENT AND MOBILITIES 26. Whither a sustainable urban automobility? Jonathan Kershaw, Coventry University, UK 27. Make room for a planet of transit metropolises Yoav Lerman, Tel Aviv University, Israel 28. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and sustainable urban development in the global south Pedro Henrique C. Torres, PUC-Rio University, Brazil 29. More money, more cars, more city, less walking: Is this the future of Tirana? Paulo Rui Anciaes, University College London, UK 30. Inhabiting infrastructure: explaining cycling's complexity Alan Latham, University College London, and Peter Wood, The Open University, UK 31. Innovations, policies and ideas - An urban mobility perspective Nihan Akyelken, University of Oxford, UK 32. Moving to the city / Movement as the city Johan Gärdebo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 33. The built environment, active design and public health: the impact of office design on activity Anna Mary Cooper and Alex Clarke-Cornwell, University of Salford, UK CHINA 34. Growing urban China - at what cost? Brooke Wilmsen, La Trobe University, Australia 35. Sustainable urbanization in China: Courtyard housing and cultural sustainability Donia Zhang, York University, Canada 36. Urbanization and inequality in China's mega-cities: A perspective from Chinese industrial workers Jake Lin, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 37. The sustainable renewal of a historical community in Beijing’s Old City Shangyi Zhou and Shaobo Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China 38. Governance of sustainable development in China: A case study of the bamboo shoot production in Lin’an County, China Kin Wing Chan, University of Cardiff, UK MAKING PLACES 39. Sustainable urbanization in North America: Courtyard housing and architectural multiculturalism Donia Zhang, York University, Canada 40. Reconfiguring ‘sustainability’ in Mumbai: From environmental racism to digital governmobilities after Slumdog Millionaire Rodanthi Tzanelli, University of Leeds, UK 41. Political conflict and financialized ‘eco-chic’ urban renewal, a case from Milan Guido Anselmi, Università degli studi Milano Bicocca, Italy 42. Consuming Master-Planned Estates in Australia Kamel Taoum, University of Western Sydney, Australia 43. A finger on the pulse of happiness in an urbanised island context Marie Briguglio, University of Malta, Malta 44. Post-earthquake monument stewardship – a case of the Radha-Krishna Temple at Swotha, Lalitpur, Nepal Swati Pujari, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands 45. The cohabitation of urban stimulation and natural restoration Sarah Payne, Herriott-Watt University, UK ENVIRONMENT 46. The status of water supply and sanitation in a rapidly urbanized world: A case study of Dhaka City Mahin Al Nahian, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 47. Urban pollution, health, and sustainable development in Delhi Aakriti Grover and R.B. Singh, University of Delhi, India 48. Malta's EU accession, environmental sustainability and ENGO activism Michael Briguglio, University of Malta, Malta 49. The role of landscape in the sustainable transition towards a new urban waste management system Piergiuseppe Morone, Unitelma-Sapienza University of Rome, and Antonio Lopolito, University of Foggia, Italy 50. Challenges and opportunities of sustainable urbanization in Delhi, India Gaurav Sikka, University of Delhi, India 51. Climate adaptation vs. urban politics? Some evidence from Colombian cities Florian Koch, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Germany 52. The Hydrocitizenship Project Celebrates World Water Day 2015 Tom Payne, University of Aberystwyth; Katherine Jones, University of the West of England, and Owain Jones, Bath Spa University, UK LOW CARBON FUTURES 53. Roles of design in sustainability and low-carbon transitions in cities İdil Gaziulusoy, University of Melbourne, Australia 54. The role of water for sustainable urban planning Danijela Milosevic and Martina Winker, ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Germany 55. Cooperatively owned renewable energy facilities – Unlocking urban community power Sigrid Kusch, University of Southampton, UK, and Giovanni Beggio, University of Padua, Italy 56. Solar hydrogen energy systems: A magic bullet for global sustainable urbanisation Moshe C. Kinn, University of Salford, UK 57. Sustainable consumption across 24 OECD metropolitan areas Alex Lo, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES 58. Against neoliberal capitalism: Post-political urban configurations in post- Haiyan Tacloban (Philippines) Dakila Kim P. Yee, University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College, Philippines 59. Post-socialist cities between suburbanisation and reurbanisation Adam Radzimski, Gran Sasso Science Insitute, Italy, and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland 60. Public-private partnerships and the new squatters of capital Christopher John “CJ” Chanco, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Phillipines 61. Social entrepreneurial ecosystems as a means for creating sustainable urban development Michael Wirtz and Christine Volkmann, University of Wuppertal, Germany 62. Radioactivity and the city - what might Iwaki in Japan tell us about urban life under major environmental change? Leslie Mabon, Robert Gordon University, UK 63. Building consensus for another possible economy at municipal level Mark Burton, Steady State Manchester, UK 64. The impact of the labor movement and social transitions at the urban level Steve McFarland, University of Tampa, USA DIGITAL FUTURES 65. Towards knowledge cities: turning redundant spaces into essential places with ICT in East Asia Chih-Hung Chen and Lin-Fang Hsu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 66. Now Open: The Smart City Lily Bui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 67. Planning for smart cities and environmental sustainability in India Kamal Asif, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India 68. Uni-Fi: Reimagining Technologies for the Urban Poor Santosh Kesavan, Crosslinks Foundation, India 69. Urban digital divides: A threat to sustainable urbanisation Therese Kenna, University College Cork, Ireland 70. Social media for social housing in the UK and Australia Jenna Condie, University of Western Sydney, Australia 71. Smart and sustainable? Towards future conceptualisations of sustainable urban development in the digital world Veronika Anna Neumeier, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany 72. Sense in the city: Urban sensing as a digital intervention for planning Lily Bui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 73. An invitation to the Hydrocitizens online community Katherine Jones, University of the West of England; Tom Payne, University of Aberystwyth, and Owain Jones, Bath Spa University, UK 74. Concluding Thoughts: Urban Social Research in the Digital Age Jenna Condie, University of Western Sydney, Australia Reflections WELCOME TO THE BOOK OF BLOGS