Outputs (34)

Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa (2018)
Journal Article

Lanterns, homes systems, hot water systems and micro-grids based on small-scale solar have become prominent ways to address the energy access challenge. As momentum grows for this form of energy transition this paper draws together research on small-... Read More about Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Digital Territories: Google Maps as a Political Technique in the Re-making of Urban Informality (2018)
Journal Article

This article examines the mobilisation of spatial media technologies for digitally mapping informal settlements. It argues that digital mapping operates politically through a re-configuration of circulation, power, and territorial formations. Drawing... Read More about Digital Territories: Google Maps as a Political Technique in the Re-making of Urban Informality.

Urban Operating Systems: Diagramming the City (2017)
Journal Article

A set of software/hardware packages developed by IT companies for the urban market is transforming the way in which cities are imagined and configured. These urban operating systems (Urban OS) embody important presumptions about what constitutes appr... Read More about Urban Operating Systems: Diagramming the City.

From consumers to clients: Regularizing electricity networks in São Paulo’s favelas (2016)
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A. (2016). From consumers to clients: Regularizing electricity networks in São Paulo’s favelas. In M. Hodson, & S. Marvin (Eds.), Retrofitting Cities. Routledge

Climate change mitigation in rapidly developing cities (2016)
Book Chapter
Griffith, C., Matkins, M., Aylett, A., Joeman, B., Lefevre, B., Luque-Ayala, A., …Ward, S. (2016). Climate change mitigation in rapidly developing cities. In K. Seto, & W. Solecki (Eds.), Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change. Routledge

Oxford Bibliographies in Geography [online] (2016)
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A. (2016). Oxford Bibliographies in Geography [online]. In B. Warf (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Geography [online]. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199874002-0132

Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid - Geographies of the Electric City (2016)
Book

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article

As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn? (2015)
Book

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 fac... Read More about Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?.

The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control (2015)
Journal Article

This paper examines the increased visibility of urban infrastructures occurring through a close coupling of information technologies and the selective integration of urban services. It asks how circulatory flow is managed in the contemporary city, by... Read More about The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control.