Good Stories…

“Sustainability” is used strategically in urban governance; it a means as well an end. Some argue that the focus often lies on former. The point of this paper not to show “sustainability” achieve diverse set goals, but rather how done. article starts with three stories about transformations post-industrial cities (Malmö, Essen, Almada) and lays out have been enacted (or not), thus demonstrating dynamic context-specific way put work governance. Further, argument stories, due their ontological entanglements, may be more than “good stories”. In through governance issue un/made along certain kinds cities. points make sustainability marketable while unmaking something requires fundamental change. Moreover, claim these two competitive unmake connections between industrial pasts global environmental challenges. Nevertheless, they also cause critique dispute might pave for different dis/connections.