Taking into account the potentially different starting and framework conditions of regions in different parts of the European Union, we will present a new approach for sustainability transition analysis. We hypothesise: favourable overall institutional conditions, such as a high degree of formal...

The smart cities policy approach has been intensively implemented in European cities under the Horizon 2020 programme. However, these implementations not only reduce the interdependencies among stakeholders to technocratic Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models, but also fail to question the...

What is suburbia? : naming the layers in the landscape, 1820-2000 / Dolores Hayden -- How they lost their way in San Jose : the capital of Silicon Valley as a case study of postwar sprawl / Glenna Matthews -- Electronic cottages, wired neighborhoods, and smart cities / William J. Mitchell -- How...

As in other countries, there is a growing public, policy and business interest in the UK in the roles and potential of community-led initiatives for sustainable energy consumption and production. Such initiatives include green lifestyle-based activities to reduce energy consumption (e.g....