This book brings together leading international researchers within a systematic comparative framework for evaluating the design, practices and processes of urban living labs to enable the comparative analysis of their potential and limits.

1. Introduction Design of ULL 2. Urban Living Labs: Catalysing Low Carbon and Sustainable Cities in Europe? Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Kes McCormick and James Evans 3. Putting urban experiments into context: Integrating Urban Living Labs and city-regional priorities. Mike Hodson, James Evans and Gabriele Schliwa 4. Urban living labs for the smart grid: Experimentation, governmentality, and urban energy transitions Anthony M. Levenda 5. Smart City Construction: towards an analytical framework for urban living labs Practices of ULL 6. Intermediation and learning in Stellenbosch's Urban Living Lab Megan Davies and Mark Swilling 7. Bringing Urban Living Labs to Communities: Enabling processes of transformation Janice Astbury and Harriet Bulkeley 8. HomeLabs: Domestic living laboratories under conditions of austerity Anna Davies 9. Urban living labs, 'smart' innovation and the realities of every day access to energy Vanesa Castán Broto Processes of ULL 10. 15-years and still living: The Basel Pilot Region laboratory and Switzerland's pursuit of a 2000-Watt Society Gregory Trencher, Achim Geissler, Yasuhiro Yamanaka 11. Agency, space, and partnerships: Exploring key dimensions of Urban Living Labs in Vancouver, Canada Sarah Burch, Alex Graham and Carrie Mitchell 12. Placing sustainability in communities: emerging urban living labs in China Qianqing Mai 13. The importance of place for urban transition experiments: Understanding the embeddedness of urban living labs Frank van Steenbergen and Niki Frantzeskaki 14. Conclusion Index