Green Building Transitions: Regional Trajectories of Innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia

Part I Framing Urban Green Building Chapter 1 Green Building as Urban Climate Change Strategy Julia Affolderbach, Boris Braun & Christian Schulz 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Cities, Climate Change and Green Building 1.3 Green Building Transitions 1.4 Objectives of the Book 1.5 The Structure of this Book Chapter 2 Green Building as Urban Sustainability Transitions 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Multiple Understandings of Sustainability Transitions 2.3 Transition Studies and Sustainability Research 2.4 Limitations of the Transition Studies Approach and Current Debates 2.5 Transitioning Towards Green Cities Chapter 3 Urban Sustainability and the Governance of Greening 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Rise of Urban Climate Change Governance 3.3 Assessing Urban Greening 3.4 Urban Greening and Policy Mobility 3.5 Towards an Analytical Framework for Urban Green Building Chapter 4 Methodology Boris Braun, Bérénice Preller, Christian Schulz & Julia Affolderbach 4.1 Approaching Urban Green Building 4.2 Case Studies on Urban Green Building Transitions 4.3 Research Design 4.4 Reflection on Methodology and Data Quality Part II Practices and Contexts Chapter 5 Freiburg: The Emblematic Green City Sebastian Fastenrath & Bérénice Preller 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Green Building Pathways in Freiburg 5.3 Retrofitting Freiburg's Building Stock 5.4 The Creation of an Urban Legend? 5.5 Conclusion Chapter 6 Vancouver: Leading Green Building Transitions? Kirstie O'Neill & Julia Affolderbach 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Trajectories of Greening 6.3 Emulative and Competitive Green Leadership 6.4 The University of British Columbia 6.5 Best Neighbourhood? The Olympic Village in Southeast False Creek 6.6 The Greenest City Action Plan 6.7 Conclusion Chapter 7 Brisbane: A Disrupted Green Building Trajectory Sebastian Fastenrath 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Context of Green Building in Brisbane 7.3 Green Building Pathways in Brisbane 7.4 Innovative Approaches in the Multi-Storey Residential Building Sector 7.5 Conclusion Chapter 8 Green Building in Luxembourg: A Policy-Led Approach Caught Between Green Growth and Affordable Housing Bérénice Preller 8.1 Sustainable Buildings in an Economically Dynamic Small State: Opportunities and Pressures 8.2 Energy Performance Requirements: A Trigger for Sustainable Building Approaches. 8.3 Green Building as Economic Diversification Strategy 8.4 Sustainable Housing: Addressing Issues of Quality and Affordability 8.5 Conclusion: Green Building for Quality of Life? Part III Trajectories of Greening Chapter 9 Cities as Seedbeds for Sustainability Innovations 9.1 Landscape as Context 9.2 Niche Articulations 9.3 Reassessing the MLP: Contextualised Contingencies Chapter 10 Leading the green transition? 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Places of Transition 10.3 Transitions in Relation 10.4 Green Leadership 10.5 Mobile Greening Chapter 11 Conclusion 11.1 Core Findings 11.2 Study Limitations 11.3 Avenues for Future Research