A study published in Urban Transformations proposes two novel frameworks to assist transdisciplinary strategy for transformative urban development.
The vesting of authority to institutional power may well be an inevitable by-product of the development of civilisation, with cities its ‘greatest invention’ . However, where current power relations detract from sustainable development, strategies to enable transformation through the lens of the four enabling ‘voices’ and their underpinning capacities can be a critical opportunity to address the ‘imbalance of the voices’.
These frameworks and scopes have potential, as transdisciplinary boundary objects, to assist issue framing and strategy development in other countries . They are also consistent with calls for a more convergent, cumulative and transdisciplinary ‘urban science’, and their further development and practical deployment should help confirm what is similar across urban contexts, and broaden perspectives on the many context-specific and contested issues.
, is critical if communities, stakeholders and decision-makers are to navigate with some speed towards more sustainable urban development.Detailed supporting information is in the supplementary materials .
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