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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.

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

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

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.

Solar hot water and housing systems in São Paulo, Brazil (2015)
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A. (in press). Solar hot water and housing systems in São Paulo, Brazil. In H. Bulkeley, V. Castan Broto, & G. Edwards (Eds.), An Urban Politics of Climate Change: Experimentation and the Governing of Socio-Technical Transitions (157-176). Routledge

Developing a Critical Understanding of Smart Urbanism? (2015)
Journal Article
Luque-Ayala, A., & Marvin, S. (2015). Developing a Critical Understanding of Smart Urbanism?. Urban Studies, 52(12), 2105-2116. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015577319

Smart urbanism is emerging at the intersection of visions for the future of urban places, new technologies and infrastructures. Smart urbanism discourses are deeply rooted in seductive and normative visions of the future where digital technology stan... Read More about Developing a Critical Understanding of Smart Urbanism?.

Smart urbanism: cities, grids and alternatives? (2014)
Book Chapter
Luque, A., McFarlane, C., & Marvin, S. (2014). Smart urbanism: cities, grids and alternatives?. In M. Hodson, & S. Marvin (Eds.), After Sustainable Cities? (74-90). Routeldge

Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics? (2014)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., & Silver, J. (2014). Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?. Political Geography, 40, 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.003

This paper takes as its starting point the argument that infrastructure networks cannot merely be thought of as the backdrop against which climate politics is played out in the city, but are instead fundamental to the ways in which this is conducted.... Read More about Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?.

A systems approach to meeting the challenges of urban climate change (2012)
Journal Article
Da Silva, J., Kernaghan, S., & Luque, A. (2012). A systems approach to meeting the challenges of urban climate change. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 4(2), 125-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2012.718279

This article identifies the future challenges that cities face in their ability to create well-being, particularly for urban poor communities, as a result of the compound effect generated by climate change – distinguishing between direct impacts, ind... Read More about A systems approach to meeting the challenges of urban climate change.

Matavén Selva Corazon de la Salud (2000)
Book
Lobo-Guerrero, M., Luque-Ayala, A., Herrera, X., & de Greiff, J. (Eds.). (in press). Matavén Selva Corazon de la Salud. Fundación Etnollano / Prorama COAMA / Union Europea

Post-development carbon
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A. Post-development carbon. In A. Luque-Ayala, S. Marvin, & H. Bulkeley (Eds.), Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City (224-241). Routledge

Chapter 3: Urban
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A. Chapter 3: Urban. In J. Ash, R. Kitchin, & A. Leszczynski (Eds.), Digital Geographies. SAGE Publications