1. Project overview Concept and work packages
Presenter: Bernhard Müller

2. Cities Dynamics Change
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3. Innovation Lifestyles Quality of life
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Innovation
Lifestyles
Quality of life
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4. Disparities Social cohesion and integration
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5. Key challenges
How to best design and turn cities into intelligent, socially integrative and sustainable environments?

6. Key challenges
How to best design and turn cities into intelligent, socially integrative and sustainable environments?
Good practices and methods in terms of social inclusiveness, cultural dynamics, and economic viability

7. Key challenges
How to best design and turn cities into intelligent, socially integrative and sustainable environments?
Good practices and methods in terms of social inclusiveness, cultural dynamics, and economic viability
Transfer and learning
Reciprocity

8. Transition towards urban sustainability through socially integrative cities in the EU and in China
Urban realities
Social integration
Urban sustainability

9. Socially integrative city
Definition
Socially mixed, cohesive, liveable and vibrant communities
Compactness, functional mix, intra-urban connectivity play an important role
Environmental quality, quality of public spaces, quality of life contribute to the well-being of the population
Sense of community, sense of place, preservation of cultural heritage shape the city’s in- and outward bound image
Investments into neighbourhood improvement, service delivery, infrastructure and quality of housing are important supportive measures
Empowerment and participation of the population as well as social capital are indispensable

10. Socially integrative city
12 Characteristics:
Urban planning and participatory design
Reducing urban sprawl and promoting well-balanced land conversion from “rural” to “urban” and appropriate access to urban land
Involving the different stakeholders in collaborative and participative planning and design processes on the different politico-administrative levels
Urban environment
Improving the environment and living conditions in urban areas for all
Upgrading the physical environment in distressed areas
Promoting efficient and affordable urban transport
Assuring equal access to municipal services for all residents
Local economy and markets
Strengthening the local economy and labour market
Strengthening (technical and social) innovation in cities and neighbourhoods opening up new possibilities for local population

11. Socially integrative city
12 Characteristics:
Social development and social capital
Fostering proactive education and training policies for children and young people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Preserving cultural heritage and fostering the identity of neighbourhoods and their inhabitants
Fostering social capital and engagement of local stakeholders
Institutional development and urban finance
Supporting adequate institutional and urban financial mechanisms

12. Transition
Definition: Transition towards urban sustainability means: “a systemic change of how urban affairs are handled in an urban-rural system by the respective stakeholders on the different politico-administrative levels”; it includes a changed / new understanding of the needs of priorities of future urban development within the society in an urban-rural context
We talk about a systemic change; this includes different 5 levels:
China: national, provincial, city, district, neighbourhood
Europe: EU, member state, “region”, city, neighbourhood
The level of autonomy of cities in Europe and China plays an important role regarding whether individual cities can bring about change
We have to differentiate where the initiative towards transition comes from:
“From below” in Europe: civil society initiatives
“From above” in China: central government supported by cities

13. Transition Trends / crises Regime of practices New regime of practices
e.g. urban planning and development
e.g. more sustainability and social integration in urban planning and development
Transition arena and experiments
Niches
Stakeholders
Innovation
Transformative capacity
e.g. Wolfram (2016): governance, leadership, empower-ment, awareness, foresight, experimentation, innovation embedding, social learning, etc.

14. Transformative capacity
Transition towards urban sustainability through socially integrative cities in the EU and in China
Transition
Urban realities
Social integration
Urban sustainability
Transformative capacity
Urban economy
Urban environment

15. Transformative capacity
10 Components of transformative capacity (Wolfram 2016) as starting point:
Agency components
Inclusive and multi-form urban governance
Transformative leadership
Empowered communities of practice
Capacity development processes
System awareness
Sustainability foresight
Disruptive communities of practice experiments
Innovation embedding
Learning and reflexivity
Learning and reflexivity in terms of translation, monitor and revision
Relational dimensions
Working across human agency levels
Working across tiers and scales

16. Objectives and outputs
Develop a systematic knowledge base on transition experiences in Europe and China in a comparative way, and make results publicly available as a book addressing practitioners, the scientific community and students
Project overview

17. Objectives and outputs
Develop a systematic knowledge base on transition experiences in Europe and China in a comparative way, and make results publicly available as a book addressing practitioners, the scientific community and students
Advance tools and measures to support transition in cooperation with local stakeholders and citizens, and test them in two Living Labs located in Chinese cities with the purpose to derive operational and evidence-based knowledge about urban transformative capacity
Project overview

18. Objectives and outputs
Develop a systematic knowledge base on transition experiences in Europe and China in a comparative way, and make results publicly available as a book addressing practitioners, the scientific community and students
Advance tools and measures to support transition in cooperation with local stakeholders and citizens, and test them in two Living Labs located in Chinese cities with the purpose to derive operational and evidence-based knowledge about urban transformative capacity
Elaborate recommendations to support transition towards socially integrative cities, discuss them with representatives of 60 cities and a wider stakeholder community, and disseminate them through a variety of channels (e.g. compendium including policy briefs, guidelines, methods, good practice examples) and give feed-back to the European Commission through two European Policy Briefs
Project overview

19. Work packages
WP1 Community building and place making in neighbourhoods
WP2 Bridging the planning – implementation gap in eco- and smart cities
WP3 Land use and land management
WP4 Integrated transition pathways towards sustainable urban planning and governance
WP5 Living Labs, exploitation and dissemination
WP6 Project Management
WP7 Ethics requirements
Project overview

20. Project overview Concept and work packages
Presenter: Bernhard Müller