Cities' role in addressing both climate change mitigation and adaptation is becoming increasingly important. Within the last decade, cities together with other actors have initiated neighborhood‐level climate change projects that build on the concept of experimentation using participation and coproduction. Common features in these initiatives are the limitation of the project to a geographically specific area within the city, inclusion of stakeholders from that physical location, and the use of different types of experimentation through participation in order to pursue climate objectives. This qualitative case study discusses the participatory experimentation and potential structural transformations by focusing on the Climate Street project of Helsinki and Vantaa, Finland. More specifically, we examine how learning, participation, and public visibility contribute toward the impact of the project. Our results show that existing urban governance structures restrict experiments in many ways and only certain types of change are feasible. This implies that while participatory experimentation offers promise but is not a panacea in terms of governing climate change.

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气候大街上的参与性实验

城市在解决气候变化减缓和适应方面的作用越来越重要。在过去十年中，城市与其他参与者一起发起了邻里级的气候变化项目，这些项目建立在利用参与和共同生产的实验概念的基础上。这些计划的共同特征是，项目仅限于城市内的特定地理区域，来自该实际位置的利益相关者的参与，以及通过参与以实现气候目标而进行的不同类型的实验。该定性案例研究以芬兰赫尔辛基和万塔的气候街项目为重点，讨论了参与性实验和潜在的结构转变。更具体地说，我们研究了学习，参与，公众的知名度有助于该项目的影响。我们的结果表明，现有的城市治理结构在许多方面限制了实验，只有某些类型的变革是可行的。这意味着，尽管参与性试验提供了希望，但就控制气候变化而言不是万灵药。