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  • Infrastructural Times

    Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

    by Lauren Marino, Timothy Moss, Olivier Coutard, AbdouMaliq Simone, Peter Ekman, Seth Schindler, Juan Miguel Kanai, Dalia Wahdan, Tamer Elshayal, Simon Marvin, Jonathan Rutherford, Jessica DiCarlo, Samantha Biglieri, Roger Keil, Amelia Thorpe ...
    Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Artificial Intelligence and the City

    Urbanistic Perspectives on AI

    Edited by Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline McGuirk, Simon Marvin ...
    This book explores in theory and practice how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upon a range of urban disciplines and case studies, the chapters reveal the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on urban society, urban infrastructure, urban governance, urban planning and urban sustainability.Contributors also examine how the city, far from being a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Urban Operating Systems

    Producing the Computational City

    by Andres Luque-Ayala, Simon Marvin ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    An exploration of the modest potentials and serious contradictions of reconfiguring urban life through computational operating systems.A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the impression that computation can solve almost any urban problem. Subjecting this claim to critical scrutiny, in this book, Andrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin examine ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

    Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale reorganisation in the way societies produce and use energy. Cities are critical in this transition ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Low Carbon Nation?

    by Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin ...
    What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country? Does it reinforce existing ‘business as usual’ or create new transformational opportunities? Low Carbon Nation? takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle this critical question, by looking across the different dimensions of technological, scientific, social and economic ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Urban Infrastructure in Transition

    Networks, Buildings and Plans

    by Timothy Moss, Simon Marvin ...
    Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term. Focusing on cities in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, this book examines the mounting pressures for changes in the management style of utility services in Europe, pressures that stem from a wide range of sources such as liberalization and privatization of markets, tighter ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Urban Living Labs

    Experimenting with City Futures

    Edited by Simon Marvin, Harriet Bulkeley, Kes McCormick, Lindsay Mai, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan ...
    All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. The aim of this volume is to examine, inform and advance the governance of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Rethinking Urban Transitions

    Politics in the Low Carbon City

    Edited by Andrés Luque-Ayala, Simon Marvin, Harriet Bulkeley ...
    Rethinking Urban Transitions provides critical insight for societal and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon urbanism. It draws on over a decade of international research, undertaken by scholars across multiple disciplines concerned with analysing and shaping urban sustainability transitions. It seeks to open up the possibility of a new generation of urban low carbon ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Smart Urbanism

    Utopian vision or false dawn?

    Edited by Simon Marvin, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane ...
    Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Retrofitting Cities

    Priorities, Governance and Experimentation

    Edited by Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin ...
    Developing an up-to-date critical framework for analysing urban retrofit, this is the first book to examine urban re-engineering for sustainability in a socio-technical context. Retrofitting Cities examines why retrofit is emerging as an important strategic issue for urban authorities and untangles the mix of economic, competitive, ecological and social drivers that influence any transition ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • After Sustainable Cities?

    Edited by Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin ...
    A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Splintering Urbanism

    Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

    by Steve Graham, Simon Marvin ...
    Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about:*globalization and the city*technology and society*urban space and urban networks*infrastructure and the built environment*developed ... Read more

    $77.99 USD