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This discussion paper presents a methodological approach to sustainability indicators and scenarios that evolved within the framework of the interdisciplinary and application-oriented Risk Habitat Megacity research initiative on sustainable urban development in Santiago de Chile. The aim of this discussion paper is to support regional and local planning authorities and political decision-makers in the area of housing and other urban policy fields. It will be shown how the approach was contextualized in order to contribute to the ongoing debate on methodological approaches to social sustainability and to the policy-related understanding of socio-spatial differentiation trends and their implications for social inclusion.

"The unmistakeable pattern that has long divided Santiago de Chile into the 'rich' northeastern municipalities and the 'poor' rest of the city has recently begun to change. Little is known about the mechanisms that drive these processes of socio-spatial differentiation and their associated opportunities and risks. This chapter explores three trends in socio-spatial change for 39 municipalities of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Santiago: demographic variables such as population trends and intra-metropolitan migration streams, housing and land market trends with respect to construction volume, building permits and land prices, and finally state housing policy with particular reference to social housing programmes. The analysis shows that in combination, these trends have supported the formation of two extreme types of socio-spatial conditions in various locations throughout the city. The chapter stresses the prominent role of state housing programmes. While the contemporary debate on these aspects focuses to a large extent on the agglomeration of low-income groups in social housing schemes on the periphery, the results suggest that the housing policy should give attention to some of the more central locations, where the move towards gentrification could cause the displacement of low-income groups in the future." (author's abstract)

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Urban Transformations - Sustainable Urban Development Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience -- Motivation -- Sustainability Through "Urban Transformations" -- Our Approach and Understanding of Urban Transformations -- Resource Efficiency -- Quality of Life -- Resilience -- Synopsis -- Purpose of the Volume -- References -- Part I: Conceptual Approaches of Sustainable Urban Transformations -- Outline -- Exploring the Extent, Selected Topics and Governance Modes of Urban Sustainability Transformations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Extent of Urban Transformations: Transition Management and the Great Transformation -- 2.1 Transition Management -- 2.2 The Great Transformation -- 3 Topics of Urban Transformations -- 3.1 The Post-fossil City -- 3.2 The Resilient City -- 4 Goverance of Urban Transformations -- 4.1 Transformative Urban Governance - Illustrated by the WBGU Approach -- 4.2 Growth Machines and Urban Regimes - Illustrated by the Smart City Concept -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Linking Transition Theories with Theories of Institutions - Implications for Sustainable Urban Infrastructures Between Flexibility and Stability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Concepts for the Transformation of Urban Infrastructures -- 2.1 Transforming Socio-Technical Systems -- 2.2 On the Steering of Socio-Technical Transformations -- 3 Socio-Technical Transformations as a Phenomenon of Institutional Change -- 3.1 The Importance of Institutions in the Urban Transformation Process -- 3.2 The Theory of Institutional Change -- 3.2.1 Mechanisms of Institutional Change -- 3.2.2 The Concept of Adaptive Efficiency -- 4 Transformation of Urban Infrastructure Systems: The Example of Urban Water Management