Table of Contents
1. The experimental city: new modes and prospects of urban transformation
PART I: LOGICS OF EXPERIMENTATION
2. Experiments in the city: unpacking notions of experimentation for sustainability
3. Cities, experiments, and the logics of the knowledge economy
4. The urban laboratory and emerging sites of urban experimentation
5. Virtual city experimentation: a critical role for design visioning
6. The boundaries of experimentation in sustainable urbanism
7. Cabin ecologies: the technoscience of integrated urban infrastructure
PART II: EXPERIMENTING IN CITIES
8. Green enclaves, neoliberalism and the constitution of the experimental city in Santiago de Chile
9. Urban mobility experiments in India and Thailand
10. Urban science networks and local economy: the case of Newcastle upon Tyne
11. Grassroots experimentation: alternative learning and innovation in the Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin
12. Living labs: users, citizens and sustainable urban transitions
PART III: EXPERIMENTAL CITIES
13. Turning over a new leaf: sustainability and urban experimentation in Seoul
14. Frankenstein cities: (de)composed urbanism and experimental eco-cities
15. Experimental afterlives: making and unmaking developmental laboratories in Ghana
16. The glorious failure of the experimental city: cautionary tales from Arcosanti and Masdar
17. Post carbon cities: distributed and decentralized and demodernized?