Enabling the City

<p><em>Enabling the City</em> is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter and transdisciplinarity.</p><p>The rich stories reflect different research and local practice cultures exploring issues such as ageing community health and dementia public space energy mobility cultures heritage housing re-use and renewal as well as more universal questions about urban sustainability and climate change and perhaps most importantly education. Against this backdrop aspirations for the 21st century are related to the international national and local agendas expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in the New Urban Agenda (NUA) raising fundamental questions of how to enable development. We highlight aspects of transformative learning and ways of knowing critical to any collaborative and participatory process.</p>