This article proposes a conceptual framework for analysing and comparing urban governance configurations and their dynamics in the context of sustainability transitions. Our contribution to the debates consists of drawing on a literature review to develop a conceptual framework with the dimensions necessary for understanding urban governance processes and their dynamics; an urban governance configuration framework. We argue that this framework allows us to combine important dimensions (discourses, actor networks, knowledge and material processes) shaping urban development decision‐making and outcomes in their social, economic and environmental domains, in a complex world. The main advantages of this approach are: first, it enables the analysis how complex decision‐making is combined in a particular time and space, generating decisions and outcomes based on a variety of knowledge; second, it allows a comparative analysis of governance configurations across different places within the same city and between cities; and third, provides lessons on how urban governance could shift to more inclusive, sustainable forms of urban development.

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城市治理配置：一个概念框架，用于理解复杂性并促进向更高的城市可持续性过渡

本文提出了一个概念框架，用于在可持续性转变的背景下分析和比较城市治理结构及其动态。我们对辩论的贡献包括：通过文献综述来发展概念框架，并为理解城市治理过程及其动态提供必要的维度；城市治理配置框架。我们认为，该框架使我们能够在一个复杂的世界中，结合重要的维度（话语，参与者网络，知识和物质过程），在其社会，经济和环境领域塑造城市发展的决策和结果。这种方法的主要优点是：首先，它可以分析在特定的时间和空间如何组合复杂的决策，根据各种知识生成决策和结果；其次，它可以对同一城市内不同城市之间以及城市之间的治理结构进行比较分析。第三，提供有关如何将城市治理转变为更具包容性和可持续性的城市发展形式的经验教训。