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Institutional Dynamics of Transformative Climate Urbanism: Remaking Rules in Messy Contexts

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A key challenge of transformative climate urbanism is to understand how institutions can be deliberately changed within socially heterogeneous, historically encumbered, and politically contested settings. Drawing on multiple bodies of literature, I develop a typology comprising six categories of institutional dynamics which are likely to play out within urban climate transformations (Novelty, Uptake, Decline, Lock-in, Interplay, and Maintenance). This provides a novel set of analytical ‘entry points’ for studying the institutional dimensions of urban climate transformations. It reveals multiple dynamics both for and against change, and suggests that sweeping reforms may often not be a panacea, or even commonly possible.

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Patterson, J.J. (2020). Institutional Dynamics of Transformative Climate Urbanism: Remaking Rules in Messy Contexts. In: Castán Broto, V., Robin, E., While, A. (eds) Climate Urbanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53386-1_7

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