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Title: Conceptual frameworks facilitate integration for transdisciplinary urban science
Abstract There are urgent calls for developing a comprehensive and globally-relevant urban science that emphasizes convergence among disciplines and practice. Advancing theory and conceptual frameworks is critical to developing a new urban systems science. We synthesize five frameworks that address features identified in calls for global urban science. The frameworks address the overarching urban conditions of complexity, diffuseness, connectivity, and diversity of cities across the globe. The frameworks also help evaluate how a project or study may advance sustainability. The metacity concept, a spatially scalable representation of mosaic change in urban systems, demonstrates how the frameworks apply to increasingly extensive, spatially heterogeneous, and dynamic urban regions. The metacity concept helps avoid static and isolated plans and management approaches and provides a conceptual foundation for an interdisciplinary urban systems science. The frameworks suggest a practical checklist that may help interventions, strategies, and research better align with goals for transforming urban systems toward sustainability.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1934933 1444755 1637661 1927167 1927468 1855277
PAR ID:
10219254
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
npj Urban Sustainability
Volume:
1
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2661-8001
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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