ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the emerging forms of experimentation being undertaken across urban laboratories to consider the significance of these learning spaces in wider forms of technological and sustainability orientated urbanisation processes. It contributes to recent debates by examining the wider socio-technical landscapes and particular configurations of these experimental spaces to better understand the multiple ways in which they are reconfiguring diverse urban-institutional contexts. The chapter presents a survey and database of over 70 of these urban laboratories in the UK and internationally. The chapter examines the role of urban laboratories in fostering experimentation, innovation and learning about new forms of urbanism, technological change and wider urban development. Logics refers to the drivers that shape the purpose and outlook of urban laboratories and frame the rationale for the emergence of the space, the expectations of its outputs and the role that it may play in urban experimentation and transformation.
