I recently contributed to a special issue of Building Research & Information edited by Tim Dixon and Malcolm Eames on ‘Urban retrofitting for the transition to sustainability’. The special issue includes the following articles:
Scaling up: the challenges of urban retrofit
Tim Dixon & Malcolm Eames
City futures: exploring urban retrofit and sustainable transitions
Malcolm Eames, Tim Dixon, Tim May & Miriam Hunt
Retrofitting England’s suburbs to adapt to climate change
Katie Williams, Rajat Gupta, Diane Hopkins, Matthew Gregg, Catherine Payne, Jennifer L. R. Joynt, Ian Smith & Nada Bates-Brkljac
Retrofitting existing housing: how far, how much?
Phil Jones, Simon Lannon & Jo Patterson
Socio-technical issues in dwelling retrofit
Chris Tweed
Towards systemic domestic retrofit: a social practices approach
Andrew Karvonen
Regenerating cities: technological and design innovation for Australian suburbs
Peter W. Newton
Water–energy nexus: retrofitting urban areas to achieve zero pollution
Vladimir Novotny
Reducing energy demand through retrofitting buildings
Fionn Stevenson
Andrew Karvonen 