Andrew Karvonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Karvonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Karvonen |
| SIGNATURE | KARVONEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Architectural Research Centre University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 297 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Institutional logics of the smart city and the emergence of new configurations of local governance
The smart city is a prominent urban development discourse that has been applied to urban policies and programs around the world. To date, there are limited empirical insights on how smart city policies and programs are leading to institutional change in urban local governance. Recent scholarship has mobilized the notion of institutional logics to unpack how the broader smart city discourse shapes local governance landscapes. We contribute to this…
Climate governance at the fringes: Peri-urban flooding drivers and responses
There is a large body of scientific evidence on the climate crisis and flooding in urban areas. Extreme weather events are producing extensive property damage and loss of life and require new modes of flood governance. However, the climate crisis does not stop at the city limits: peri-urban areas have related but distinct flood challenges due to land use change, regulation, perceptions, and capacity to develop collective responses. The aim of the…
Smart-sustainability: A new urban fix
Urban policy increasingly positions smart urban development as a transformative approach to deliver sustainability. In this paper, we question the transformative credentials of smartness and argue that it is better understood as a partial fix for the economic, environmental and social challenges faced by cities. Drawing on the urban sustainability and smart city literatures, we develop the concept of the urban smart-sustainability fix. This conce…
Smart and sustainable? Five tensions in the visions and practices of the smart-sustainable city in Europe and North America
A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War by Daniel A. Barber
Reviewed by: A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War by Daniel A. Barber Andrew Karvonen (bio) A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War. By Daniel A. Barber. New York: Oxford University Press. 2016. Pp. 352. $39.95. Solar architecture is often associated with the oil crisis of the 1970s and the rise of the environmental and counterculture movements of Ecological Architecture, Approp…
The experimental city
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a typology of experimentation distinguishing between niche experiments, social experiments, transition experiments, grassroots experiments and sustainability experiments, and proposes an encompassing definition of experimentation. It highlights the connections between greening and social power that have significant political…
The Experimental City
This chapter explores the idea of virtual city experimentation: a design approach to catalyse action in the context of rapidly emerging disruptive challenges to the fabric and life of cities. Any realistic assessment of the multiple challenges of climate change suggests that human society is facing a period of revolutionary transformation, as significant as any in history. The chapter emerges from design-based research and education programmes; v…
Experimental City
Reflections on a policy denouement: The politics of mainstreaming zero‐carbon housing
We reflect on the decision to abandon the mainstreaming of zero‐carbon house building in England, in the context of our paper (Walker et al . 2015) that took this long‐standing policy commitment as its case study. We consider this denouement as further evidence of how the exigencies of capital accumulation resist moves towards low‐carbon transition. We reflect on what it reveals about the relation between politics and governance, the grounding an…
Zero carbon homes and zero carbon living: Sociomaterial interdependencies in carbon governance
We consider in this paper the relations between built form and everyday practices of home‐living. These we see as co‐constituting a combined domestic carbon space in which sociomaterial interdependencies are constantly at work. Carbon emissions are necessarily caught up in these interdependencies and not separable from them. We use the case of the mainstreaming of zero carbon (zero‐C) housing in the UK to explore whether conceiving of domestic ca…
Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Lower Your Carbon Footprint!' - Urban Laboratories and the Governance of Low-Carbon Futures
The increasing threat of climate change has created a pressing need for cities to lower their carbon footprints. Urban laboratories are emerging in numerous cities around the world as a strategy for local governments to partner with public and private property owners to reduce carbon emissions, while simultaneously stimulating economic growth. In this article, we use insights from laboratory studies to analyse the notion of urban laboratories as …
Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities
The notion of the 'urban laboratory' is increasingly striking a chord with actors involved in urban change. Is this term simply a metaphor for urban development or does it suggest urbanization by substantially different means? To answer this question, we review the work of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have empirically investigated laboratories and practices of experimentation over the past three decades to understand the sign…
The Civics of Urban Nature: Enacting Hybrid Landscapes
Urban nature is typically managed through top-down, bureaucratic, and expert-driven approaches that tend to rationalize and simplify the interactions between humans and their surroundings. In the last few decades, there has been a significant push in cultural geography and the design disciplines to develop a relational ontology of urban nature, a perspective that emphasizes the hybrid connections between humans and nonhumans, built and unbuilt, s…
Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge (review)
Reviewed by: Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge Andrew Karvonen (bio) Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge. Edited by Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Pp. ix+287. $74.50/$24.95. Rachel Carson is frequently cited as the principal catalyst of contemporary environmentalism, and yet there has been a surprising dearth of critical reflection on her contributions to scientific and environmental t…
Sustainable Architecture in Context
There has been little emphasis in STS scholarship to date on the design of the built environment. This paper attempts to address this oversight by examining alternative design practices in the growing field of sustainable architecture. We propose a geohistorical framework that includes three design dispositions?"context-bound, context-free, and context-rich?"and illustrate each with a prominent sustainable building practice. The principal argumen…
Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building
Book review : Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building by David W. Orr
Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities
The notion of the 'urban laboratory' is increasingly striking a chord with actors involved in urban change. Is this term simply a metaphor for urban development or does it suggest urbanization by substantially different means? To answer this question, we review the work of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have empirically investigated laboratories and practices of experimentation over the past three decades to understand the sign…
The Experimental City
This chapter explores the idea of virtual city experimentation: a design approach to catalyse action in the context of rapidly emerging disruptive challenges to the fabric and life of cities. Any realistic assessment of the multiple challenges of climate change suggests that human society is facing a period of revolutionary transformation, as significant as any in history. The chapter emerges from design-based research and education programmes; v…
Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Lower Your Carbon Footprint!' - Urban Laboratories and the Governance of Low-Carbon Futures
The increasing threat of climate change has created a pressing need for cities to lower their carbon footprints. Urban laboratories are emerging in numerous cities around the world as a strategy for local governments to partner with public and private property owners to reduce carbon emissions, while simultaneously stimulating economic growth. In this article, we use insights from laboratory studies to analyse the notion of urban laboratories as …
Zero carbon homes and zero carbon living: Sociomaterial interdependencies in carbon governance
We consider in this paper the relations between built form and everyday practices of home‐living. These we see as co‐constituting a combined domestic carbon space in which sociomaterial interdependencies are constantly at work. Carbon emissions are necessarily caught up in these interdependencies and not separable from them. We use the case of the mainstreaming of zero carbon (zero‐C) housing in the UK to explore whether conceiving of domestic ca…
The Civics of Urban Nature: Enacting Hybrid Landscapes
Urban nature is typically managed through top-down, bureaucratic, and expert-driven approaches that tend to rationalize and simplify the interactions between humans and their surroundings. In the last few decades, there has been a significant push in cultural geography and the design disciplines to develop a relational ontology of urban nature, a perspective that emphasizes the hybrid connections between humans and nonhumans, built and unbuilt, s…
Reflections on a policy denouement: The politics of mainstreaming zero‐carbon housing
We reflect on the decision to abandon the mainstreaming of zero‐carbon house building in England, in the context of our paper (Walker et al . 2015) that took this long‐standing policy commitment as its case study. We consider this denouement as further evidence of how the exigencies of capital accumulation resist moves towards low‐carbon transition. We reflect on what it reveals about the relation between politics and governance, the grounding an…
Sustainable Architecture in Context
There has been little emphasis in STS scholarship to date on the design of the built environment. This paper attempts to address this oversight by examining alternative design practices in the growing field of sustainable architecture. We propose a geohistorical framework that includes three design dispositions?"context-bound, context-free, and context-rich?"and illustrate each with a prominent sustainable building practice. The principal argumen…
Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building
Book review : Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building by David W. Orr
Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge (review)
Reviewed by: Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge Andrew Karvonen (bio) Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge. Edited by Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Pp. ix+287. $74.50/$24.95. Rachel Carson is frequently cited as the principal catalyst of contemporary environmentalism, and yet there has been a surprising dearth of critical reflection on her contributions to scientific and environmental t…
The Civics of Urban Nature: Enacting Hybrid Landscapes
Urban nature is typically managed through top-down, bureaucratic, and expert-driven approaches that tend to rationalize and simplify the interactions between humans and their surroundings. In the last few decades, there has been a significant push in cultural geography and the design disciplines to develop a relational ontology of urban nature, a perspective that emphasizes the hybrid connections between humans and nonhumans, built and unbuilt, s…
Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Lower Your Carbon Footprint!' - Urban Laboratories and the Governance of Low-Carbon Futures
The increasing threat of climate change has created a pressing need for cities to lower their carbon footprints. Urban laboratories are emerging in numerous cities around the world as a strategy for local governments to partner with public and private property owners to reduce carbon emissions, while simultaneously stimulating economic growth. In this article, we use insights from laboratory studies to analyse the notion of urban laboratories as …
Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities
The notion of the 'urban laboratory' is increasingly striking a chord with actors involved in urban change. Is this term simply a metaphor for urban development or does it suggest urbanization by substantially different means? To answer this question, we review the work of science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have empirically investigated laboratories and practices of experimentation over the past three decades to understand the sign…
Reflections on a policy denouement: The politics of mainstreaming zero‐carbon housing
We reflect on the decision to abandon the mainstreaming of zero‐carbon house building in England, in the context of our paper (Walker et al . 2015) that took this long‐standing policy commitment as its case study. We consider this denouement as further evidence of how the exigencies of capital accumulation resist moves towards low‐carbon transition. We reflect on what it reveals about the relation between politics and governance, the grounding an…
Zero carbon homes and zero carbon living: Sociomaterial interdependencies in carbon governance
We consider in this paper the relations between built form and everyday practices of home‐living. These we see as co‐constituting a combined domestic carbon space in which sociomaterial interdependencies are constantly at work. Carbon emissions are necessarily caught up in these interdependencies and not separable from them. We use the case of the mainstreaming of zero carbon (zero‐C) housing in the UK to explore whether conceiving of domestic ca…
The experimental city
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a typology of experimentation distinguishing between niche experiments, social experiments, transition experiments, grassroots experiments and sustainability experiments, and proposes an encompassing definition of experimentation. It highlights the connections between greening and social power that have significant political…
The Experimental City
This chapter explores the idea of virtual city experimentation: a design approach to catalyse action in the context of rapidly emerging disruptive challenges to the fabric and life of cities. Any realistic assessment of the multiple challenges of climate change suggests that human society is facing a period of revolutionary transformation, as significant as any in history. The chapter emerges from design-based research and education programmes; v…
Experimental City
A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War by Daniel A. Barber
Reviewed by: A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War by Daniel A. Barber Andrew Karvonen (bio) A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War. By Daniel A. Barber. New York: Oxford University Press. 2016. Pp. 352. $39.95. Solar architecture is often associated with the oil crisis of the 1970s and the rise of the environmental and counterculture movements of Ecological Architecture, Approp…
Smart and sustainable? Five tensions in the visions and practices of the smart-sustainable city in Europe and North America
Smart-sustainability: A new urban fix
Urban policy increasingly positions smart urban development as a transformative approach to deliver sustainability. In this paper, we question the transformative credentials of smartness and argue that it is better understood as a partial fix for the economic, environmental and social challenges faced by cities. Drawing on the urban sustainability and smart city literatures, we develop the concept of the urban smart-sustainability fix. This conce…
Climate governance at the fringes: Peri-urban flooding drivers and responses
There is a large body of scientific evidence on the climate crisis and flooding in urban areas. Extreme weather events are producing extensive property damage and loss of life and require new modes of flood governance. However, the climate crisis does not stop at the city limits: peri-urban areas have related but distinct flood challenges due to land use change, regulation, perceptions, and capacity to develop collective responses. The aim of the…
Institutional logics of the smart city and the emergence of new configurations of local governance
The smart city is a prominent urban development discourse that has been applied to urban policies and programs around the world. To date, there are limited empirical insights on how smart city policies and programs are leading to institutional change in urban local governance. Recent scholarship has mobilized the notion of institutional logics to unpack how the broader smart city discourse shapes local governance landscapes. We contribute to this…
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