NEW BOOK
The Experimental City
Edited by James Evans, Andrew Karvonen and Rob Raven
Routledge 2016
https://www.routledge.com/The-Experimental-City/Evans-Karvonen-Raven/p/book/9781138856202

Overview
This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions. 

With contributions from leading scholars, and case studies from the Global North and South, from small to large scale cities, this book suggests that urban experiments offer novel modes of engagement, governance, and politics that both challenge and complement conventional strategies. The book is organized around three cross-cutting themes. Part I explores the logics of urban experimentation, different approaches, and how and why they are deployed. Part II considers how experiments are being staged within cities, by whom, and with what effects? Part III examines how entire cities or groups of cities are constructed as experiments.

This book seeks to contribute a deeper and more socially and politically nuanced understanding of how urban experiments shape cities and drive wider changes in society, providing a framework to examine the phenomenon of urban experimentation in conceptual and empirical detail.

Table of Contents
1. The experimental city: new modes and prospects of urban transformation
James Evans, Andrew Karvonen and Rob Raven

PART I: LOGICS OF EXPERIMENTATION
2. Experiments in the city: unpacking notions of experimentation for sustainability
Frans Sengers, Frans Berkhout, Anna J. Wieczorek, and Rob Raven

3. Cities, experiments, and the logics of the knowledge economy
Tim May and Beth Perry

4. The urban laboratory and emerging sites of urban experimentation
Simon Marvin and Jonathan Silver

5. Virtual city experimentation: a critical role for design visioning
Chris Ryan, Idil Gaziulusoy, Kes McCormick and Michael Trudgeon

6. The boundaries of experimentation in sustainable urbanism
Elizabeth Rapoport

7. Cabin ecologies: the technoscience of integrated urban infrastructure
Simon Marvin and Mike Hodson

PART II: EXPERIMENTING IN CITIES
8. Green enclaves, neoliberalism and the constitution of the experimental city in Santiago de Chile
Martin Sanzana Calvet and Vanesa Castán Broto

9. Urban mobility experiments in India and Thailand
Duke Ghosh, Frans Sengers, Anna J. Wieczorek, Bipashyee Ghosh, Joyashree Roy, and Rob Raven

10. Urban science networks and local economy: the case of Newcastle upon Tyne
Gareth Powells and Lynsay Blake

11. Grassroots experimentation: alternative learning and innovation in the Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin
Jana Wendler

12. Living labs: users, citizens and sustainable urban transitions
Gabriele Schliwa and Kes McCormick

PART III: EXPERIMENTAL CITIES
13. Turning over a new leaf: sustainability and urban experimentation in Seoul
Sofia Shwayri

14. Frankenstein cities: (de)composed urbanism and experimental eco-cities
Federico Cugurullo

15. Experimental afterlives: making and unmaking developmental laboratories　in Ghana 
Thomas Yarrow

16. The glorious failure of the experimental city: cautionary tales from Arcosanti and Masdar
James Evans, Gabriele Schliwa and Katherine Luke

17. Post carbon cities: distributed and decentralized and demodernized?
Stephanie Pincetl

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