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Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature (2022)
Journal Article
Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., Kiss, B., Luque-Ayala, A., Voytenko Palgan, Y., McCormick, K., & Wamsler, C. (2023). Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1113(3), 599-615. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2130867

Transcending initial efforts to make cities ‘climate smart’ by focusing on the potential of new technologies and infrastructural interventions, various actors are increasingly interested in deploying nature to help achieve urban resilience. In this c... Read More about Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature.

Introduction (2018)
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A., Marvin, S., & Bulkeley, H. (2018). Introduction. In A. Luque-Ayala, S. Marvin, & H. Bulkeley (Eds.), Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City (1-12). Routledge

Rethinking urban transitions: an analytical framework (2018)
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A., Bulkeley, H., & Marvin, S. (2018). Rethinking urban transitions: an analytical framework. In A. Luque-Ayala, S. Marvin, & H. Bulkeley (Eds.), Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City (13-36). Routledge

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
Kumar, A., Ferdous, R., Luque-Ayala, A., McEwan, C., Power, M., Turner, B., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Energy Research and Social Science, 48, 166-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.005

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
Luque-Ayala, A., & Neves Maia, F. (2019). Digital Territories: Google Maps as a Political Technique in the Re-making of Urban Informality. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(3), 449-467. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818766069

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
Marvin, S., & Luque-Ayala, A. (2017). Urban Operating Systems: Diagramming the City. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(1), 84-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12479

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.

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

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

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
Marvin, S., Luque-Ayala, A., & McFarlane, C. (Eds.). (2016). Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315730554

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
Luque-Ayala, A., & Marvin, S. (2016). The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34(2), 191-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775815611422

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.