This paper is concerned with unpacking net-zero frames and identifying implications for precinct scale urban transition management. Using data from frontrunner interviews and secondary sources in a case study on the Monash Technology Precinct (Melbourne, Australia), the analysis points towards four frames of net-zero at precinct scale: ‘Electrify Everything’ focuses on technology development to achieve carbon emissions reductions; ‘Place Matters’ which attends to liveability, mobility, inclusivity, sociality and amenity; ‘Going Green’ which embraces circular economy principles, nature-based solutions and green infrastructures; and ‘Innovation Hotspot’ which emphasises the potential of the precinct to become a major geographical agglomeration for net-zero entrepreneurship, industry development, job creation, international recognition and connectivity. Each of these frames are unpacked in terms of 1) the problem that needs to be addressed; 2) the causal diagnosis in terms of key drivers that give rise to this problem; 3) a moral interpretation of the problem and underpinning drivers; and 4) the type of actions and solutions that follow from this framing. The paper concludes that these frames are important in generating a deeper understanding of what shapes possibilities as well as tensions in accelerating a net-zero precinct transition, because each frame prioritises and enables certain transition strategies and collaborations, while it obscures and challenges others. Ultimately, the paper calls for plausible urban transition management approaches that connect with people, politics and place to consider real-life urban multiplicity, diversity, differences of views, ambiguities and contestation as a reality and potentially generative to transition dynamics.

本文关注的是解开净零框架并确定对辖​​区规模城市转型管理的影响。该分析利用领跑者访谈和莫纳什科技区（澳大利亚墨尔本）案例研究中的二手资料得出的数据，指出了该区规模的净零排放的四个框架：“电气化一切”侧重于技术开发，以实现碳减排; “地点很重要”，注重宜居性、流动性、包容性、社交性和便利性；“走向绿色”，涵盖循环经济原则、基于自然的解决方案和绿色基础设施；“创新热点”强调该区域成为净零创业、产业发展、创造就业、国际认可和互联互通的主要地理聚集区的潜力。这些框架中的每一个都根据以下方面进行解包：1）需要解决的问题；2）对导致该问题的关键驱动因素进行因果诊断；3）对问题和支撑驱动因素的道德解释；4) 在此框架下采取的行动和解决方案的类型。该论文的结论是，这些框架对于更深入地了解加速净零区域过渡的可能性和紧张局势非常重要，因为每个框架都会优先考虑并实现某些过渡策略和合作，同时它会掩盖和挑战其他策略和合作。最终，本文呼吁采取合理的城市转型管理方法，将人、政治和场所联系起来，将现实生活中城市的多样性、多样性、观点差异、模糊性和争议视为现实，并可能产生转型动力。