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Remaking the material fabric of the city : ‘alternative’ low carbon spaces of transformation or continuity? (2015)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., Burrai, E., & Barlow, C. (2016). Remaking the material fabric of the city : ‘alternative’ low carbon spaces of transformation or continuity?. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 18, 128-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2015.06.001

This article is about re-making the material fabric of the city and the role that space plays in this. There are many ways of understanding the remaking of the city, including a range of often diverse ‘alternative’ initiatives which are enacted by ne... Read More about Remaking the material fabric of the city : ‘alternative’ low carbon spaces of transformation or continuity?.

Briefing : re-engineering the city 2020–2050 – urban foresight and transition management (2014)
Journal Article
Eames, M., Marvin, S., Hodson, M., Dixon, T., Guthrie, P., & Lannon, S. (2014). Briefing : re-engineering the city 2020–2050 – urban foresight and transition management. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 167(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.11.00032

Cities may be responsible for up to 70% of global carbon emissions and 75% of global energy consumption and by 2050 it is estimated that 70% of the world's population could live in cities. The critical challenge for contemporary urbanism, therefore,... Read More about Briefing : re-engineering the city 2020–2050 – urban foresight and transition management.

Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context (2012)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., Marvin, S., Robinson, B., & Swilling, M. (2012). Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 16(6), 789-800. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00559.x

Urban policy makers and researchers consistently recognize the challenge of more effectively reshaping the linkages between cities, urban infrastructure, ecosystem services, and natural resources. The aim of this article is to consider the potential... Read More about Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context.

Mediating low-carbon urban transitions? Forms of organization, knowledge and action (2012)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2012). Mediating low-carbon urban transitions? Forms of organization, knowledge and action. European Planning Studies, 20(3), 421-439. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2012.651804

Increasingly at the scale of cities, strategies and plans to respond to the challenges of climate change and constrained resources are being developed. A range of climate change plans, low-carbon strategies, peak oil preparations and so on have been... Read More about Mediating low-carbon urban transitions? Forms of organization, knowledge and action.

Cities and the low carbon transition (2011)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Castan Broto, V., Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2011). Cities and the low carbon transition. ˜The œEuropean financial review (Online),

The notion of a low carbon transition is beguilingly simple. We use too much of the wrong sort of energy. We need to use the right sort of energy, and we need to use less of it.

The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows : spaces of reproduction or reconfiguration? (2011)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2011). The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows : spaces of reproduction or reconfiguration?. Geographica Helvetica, 702-714

This paper develops a theoretical and conceptual understanding of the role of space and politics in governing relationships between cities, critical energy, water, waste and transportation infrastructures and resource flows. It presents a view of cit... Read More about The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows : spaces of reproduction or reconfiguration?.

Can cities shape socio-technical transitions and how would we know if they were? (2010)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2010). Can cities shape socio-technical transitions and how would we know if they were?. Research Policy, 39(4), 477-485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.020

This paper asks two – relatively simple – questions: can cities shape socio-technical transitions? And how would we know if they were? There are three key objectives. The first of these is to set out emerging, and in our view, convincing evidence, th... Read More about Can cities shape socio-technical transitions and how would we know if they were?.