ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes this study’s major findings and provides relevant theoretical and empirical implications. The first four sections address the three major research questions, and section 9.5 envisions further studies while acknowledging this study’s limitations. The first section highlights this study’s major theoretical contribution. By introducing sustainability transition and MLP into the investigation of sustainable urban experiments in China, it remedies the implicit spatial scale in sustainability transition theory and the contemporary fragmented snapshots of political-economy narratives of eco and low-carbon new towns. It describes normative transition targets and outlines the relationship between national and city-level sustainability transition. Relevant theoretical implications are also discussed in this section to address policy mobility, horizontal fragmentation, and scale problems in sustainability transition. Section 9.4 discusses empirical implications for transition management of eco and low-carbon new towns.
