• Gemeente Amsterdam Cluster Ruimte en Economie,
• Amsterdam Economic Board,
• AMS Institute,
• Landelijke organisatie,
• Externe Kennisinstelling

• Wetenschappelijk,
• Experiment,
• Co-creatie,
• Verkennend

• Armoede & Schuld,
• Afval & Schoon,
• Duurzaamheid,
• Gedrag

Transition management in the urban context

Guidance Manual

INTRODUCTION
AS AN URBAN POLICY OFFICER, you are probably aware of the sustainability objectives and policies of your city. As a resident, you probably know of innovative activities and maybe even the pioneers who initiated them. But how do these initiatives interrelate? How do they build on or feed into one another? What happens when we connect mainstream policy-making processes with the innovative practices and visionary ideas of pioneering entrepreneurs, activists, artists, citizens, and scientists?

This guidance manual details a theoretical framework and a practical process to support the transition of your city towards sustainability: the transition management approach. We describe and reflect on how the approach was applied in five European cities, which shared the ambition of meeting or even going beyond the European 2020 climate targets: Aberdeen (UK), Montreuil (FR), Ghent (BE), Ludwigsburg (DE) and Rotterdam (NL). These cities aimed to realize their ambitions by finding fundamental new ways of thinking, working, planning and organizing. During the MUSIC project (Mitigation in Urban Context, Solutions for Innovative Cities, 2010-2015), teams of city officers together with local change agents in these cities addressed sustainability issues from the perspective of radical long-term change.

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