Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jan 27, 2026

Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility
Published on: August 8, 2014
Urban transformative capacity: From concept to practice
Marc Wolfram1, Sara Borgström2, Megan Farrelly3
1Urban Transformations Lab, Department of Architecture, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seobu-ro, Suwon, 16419, South Korea. marcwolfram@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Urban transformations form a central challenge for enabling global pathways towards sustainability and resilience. However, it remains unclear what kind of capacity is needed to deliver urban change that is actually transformative. Against a backdrop of current claims and efforts to achieve urban transformations, this special issue reviews the relational concept of urban transformative capacity and how it can inform novel approaches in research, policy, and practice. Drawing on seven papers analyzing diverse empirical contexts, we identify four requirements that should guide future action: (1) foster inclusion and empowerment as prerequisites, (2) close the intermediation gap and strengthen the role of local academia, (3) challenge and reinvent urban planning as a key arena, and (4) enhance reflexivity through novel self-assessment techniques. Overall, current levels of urban transformative capacity are assessed as very low, making its development a high-priority objective for all stakeholders, but for planning and research policy in particular.
Related Concept Videos
Equivalent Circuits for Practical Transformers
In a practical transformer, each winding exhibits resistance and leakage reactance. The...
Lung Capacity
Formula Mass and Mole Concepts of Compounds
Self-Concept
Infancy and Emerging Recognition
During infancy, self-concept is virtually nonexistent. Babies do not distinguish themselves as separate entities and often mistake their...
Concepts and Prototypes
The brain organizes this information using concepts, which are mental categories grouping linguistic data,...
Bacterial Transformation
Griffith made an unexpected discovery when he killed the pathogenic strain and mixed its remains with the live, non-pathogenic strain. Not only did the mixture kill host mice, but it also contained living pathogenic bacteria that...

