Municipalities in Transition
Municipalities in Transition is a key approach designed to help communities and municipalities to collaborate well to create systemic change for sustainability.
This page is part of an ongoing, open-ended online collaborative database, which collects relevant approaches that can be used by city-makers to tackle unsustainability and injustice in cities. It is based mainly on knowledge generated in EU-funded projects and touches on fast changing fields. As such, this page makes no claims of authoritative completeness and welcomes your suggestions.
General introduction to approach
Municipalities in Transition (MiT) is a grassroots policy innovation that promotes synergies between local governments and community-led initiatives, using systems thinking and a flexible framework system to find innovative ways to facilitate transformative change, as studied and reported in the Local collaborative transformations report.[1] The Municipalities in Transition methodology is being further developed and tested in Pioneer municipalities in 2019-2020.
Shapes, sizes and applications
Municipalities in Transition is a project of the Transition movement (jointly led by Transition Network and the Transition Hubs group). In 2018-19 the Municipalities in Transition System was piloted in 6 communities:
- Valsamoggia, Italy
- Santorso, Italy
- Telheiras, Portugal
- La Garrotxa, Spain
- Kispest, Hungary
- Ecobairro São Paulo, Brazil).
Relation to UrbanA themes: Cities, sustainability, and justice
Narrative of change
Transformative potential
Illustration
Suggested reading
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References
- ↑ Macedo, P. (2019a). Local collaborative transformations - Existing experiences and a new systemic framework for reflexive governance. Porto: Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa.