Department of Architecture, SKKU (Sungkyunkwan University), 2066 Seobu-ro, 16419, Suwon, South Korea.
Ambio. 2019 May;48(5):478-493. doi: 10.1007/s13280-018-1111-2. Epub 2018 Nov 8.
Urban regeneration forms a key approach for coping with persistent sustainability problems in cities. In practice, however, it is often driven by motives other than sustainability transformation. This paper explores the preconditions that allow urban regeneration approaches to become transformative, and suggests a methodology to support this shift in practice. It does so by assessing the capacity available to prepare for, initiate, and steer a path-deviant sustainability transformation of urban areas in three South Korean cities, jointly with stakeholders. The findings reflect how local policy largely supports a conservative development pathway, favored by national government, sidelining especially ecological implications. Major deficits exist regarding systems thinking, sustainability foresight, and social learning processes, while collective visioning, intermediation, community empowerment, and repositioning science could become instant drivers. In conclusion, assessing transformative capacity offers a crucial lever to design urban-regeneration approaches for unlearning dominant development paradigms and to experimentally reconfigure urban social-ecological-technological systems.
城市再生形成了应对城市中持续存在的可持续性问题的关键方法。然而，在实践中，它往往是由可持续性转型以外的动机驱动的。本文探讨了使城市再生方法能够具有变革性的前提条件，并提出了一种支持这种实践转变的方法。这是通过与利益相关者一起评估三个韩国城市准备、启动和引导城市地区偏离常规的可持续性转型的能力来实现的。研究结果反映了地方政策在很大程度上如何支持国家政府青睐的保守发展路径，从而忽略了生态影响。在系统思维、可持续性远见和社会学习过程方面存在重大缺陷，而集体愿景、中介、社区赋权和重新定位科学则可能成为即时驱动力。总之，评估变革能力是为了设计城市再生方法以消除主导发展模式并通过实验重新配置城市社会-生态-技术系统提供了一个关键的杠杆。
