Insights from coproduced scenarios toward urban sustainability transformations.

Coproduced scenarios reveal that urban transformations involve multiple interconnected pathways across five domains and four theories of change, with most pathways combining multiple change mechanisms.

• Why it matters: Understanding diverse visions and pathways for urban sustainability is crucial to enable effective transformative change, yet current knowledge about these pathways remains limited.
• What they did: Researchers analyzed 60 coproduced positive scenario visions developed through workshops with stakeholders in nine US and Latin American cities, focusing on how these scenarios represent different domains and theories of change.
• The result: Findings show that urban transformations are entangled rather than singular, with common strategies like car-free regions and decentralized infrastructure pursued with different transformative aims, highlighting the importance of underlying change theories.