Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Setting the ccene

Setting the stage / Josefine Fokdal, Olivia Bina, Prue Chiles, Liis Ojamäe, Katrin Paadam

The inter- and transdisciplinary process : a framework / Olivia Bina, Josefine Fokdal, Prue Chiles, Katrin Paadam, Liis Ojamäe

Words matter : a shared baseline vocabulary / Julie Mennes

Part 2. Urban stories beyond disciplines

The place and space of power : mess, uncertainty and change over time / Prue Chiles, Anna Krzywoszynska, Helen Holmes, Alastair Buckley, Jose Mawyin, Matt Watson

A creative “nanotown” : framing sustainable development scenarios with local people in Calabria / Giulio Verdini, Olivia Bina, Prue Chiles, Pilar Maria Guerrieri, Etra Connie Occhialini, Alan Mace, Christian Nolf, Anna Paola Pola, Paola Raffa

Explorations on residential resilience : BRF viva 2011–2019 / Sten Gromark, Björn Andersson, Anna Braide

Swimming free : the citizen-driven transformation of neubad lucerne / Josefine Fokdal, Patricia Wolf, Christian Lars Schuchert, Sibylla Amstutz, Bettina Minder, Alex Willener

Real-world laboratories as catalysts for urban change : the example of casa schützenplatz in Stuttgart / Raphael Dietz, Josefine Fokdal, Marius Gantert, Astrid Ley, Jesús Martínez Zárate, Antje Stokman

A step towards an enjoyable city : joining expertise in redesigning public space along the “main street” in Tallinn / Liis Ojamäe, Katrin Paadam

Partnerships for urban regeneration : who needs academic research / Elena Dimitrova

Barriers and potentials of inter-professional planning : creating care homes for people with dementia / Hans Thor Andersen, Inge Mette Kirkeby

Together on the platform : common action and reviving the central open public space in Ruski car (Russian Tsar) in Ljubljana / Matej Nikšič

Part 3. Short stories from practice

Protohome-newcastle : an experimental self-build housing installation / Julia Heslop

Spreefeld co-housing-Berlin : an island of common good thinking / Michael Lafond, Prue Chiles, Alice Grant

Portland works-Sheffield : a framework for co-production and community ownership / Cristina Cerulli

Urban change-gagliato : the future story of a Calabrian hill town / Rob Wills, James Anderson, Emma Kingman, Prue Chiles

Sino-French cooperation : cultural heritage and rural area development in Guizhou province / Françoise Ged

City forums-Tallinn : changing the way we think / Raul Järg

Vodnikova road-Ljubljana : more than a road to the city / Matej Nikšič, Marco Peterlin, Prue Chiles

Part 4. Lessons learned-beyond context

Transdisciplinarity revisited : transformative potential of lessons we might learn / Christoph Woiwode, Olivia Bina

Characteristics of integration in inter- and transdisciplinary urban research and practice / Erik Weber, Julie Mennes

Enabling the city : learning for transformational change / Josefine Fokdal, Olivia Bina, Giulio Verdini