Smart Cities and Digitalisation

Book

Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline McGuirk, and Simon Marvin (eds). 2024. Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI, London: Routledge.

James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Chris Martin, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Kes McCormick, Rob Raven, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan (eds). 2021. Smart and Sustainable Cities?
Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities. London: Routledge.

Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo and Federico Caprotti (eds). 2019. Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation. London: Routledge. [Also translated into Vietnamese]

Reviewed by Matthew Cook in Local Environment, Constance Carr in DisP-The Planning Review, Paulo Cordullo in City, and Sandra Jeppesen in Urban Studies.

Special Issues

Andrew Karvonen and Tom Hargreaves (eds). 2023. Data Politics in the Built Environment, Buildings & Cities 4(1).

Andrew Karvonen, Matthew Cook and Håvard Haarstad (eds). 2020. Urban Planning and the Smart City: Projects, Practices and Politics, Urban Planning, 5(1): 65-139.

James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Andres Luque-Ayala, Chris Martin, Kes McCormick, Rob Raven and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan. 2019. Smart and Sustainable Cities? Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities, Local Environment 24(7): 557-661.

Journal Articles

Devika Prakash and Andrew Karvonen. 2026. Institutional logics of the smart city and the emergence of new configurations of local governance, Cities 171, 106727

Devika Prakash, Andrew Karvonen, and Jonathan Metzger. 2025. Smart city control rooms: the rewiring of local governance landscapes in India, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Tim Bunnell, Zachary Spicer, Byron Miller, Teresa Abbruzzese, Paolo Cardullo, Sangwon Chae, I.-Chun Catherine Chang, Greig Charnock, Ming-Kuang Chung, Kwon Heo, Sue-Ching Jou, Andrew Karvonen, Olga Kordas, Lily Kong, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, HaeRan Shin, and Orlando Woods. 2025. The citizen and the smart city: a global comparison of institutional logics, Urban Geography.

Federico Caprotti, Federico Cugurullo, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Simon Marvin, Pauline McGuirk, and Alan-Miguel Valdez. 2024. Why does urban artificial intelligence matter for urban studies? developing research directions in urban AI research, Urban Geography 45(5): 883-894.

Matthew Cook and Andrew Karvonen. 2024. Urban planning and the knowledge politics of the smart city, Urban Studies 61(2): 370-382.

Rosie Robison, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Tom Hargreaves, Sara Renström, Maarten Wolsink, Emily Judson, Viera Pechancová, Melike Demirbağ-Kaplan, Hug March, Johanna Lehne, Chris Foulds, Zareen Bharucha, Liliia Bilous, Christian Büscher, Giuseppe Carrus, Sarah Darby, Sylvie Douzou, Mojca Drevenšek, Bohumil Frantál, Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Andrew Karvonen, Cecilia Katzeff, Maria Kola-Bezka, Senja Laakso, Gudrun Lettmayer, Yael Parag, Fanni Sáfián, Mariusz Swora, Lise Tjørring, Ellen van der Werff, Bas van Vliet, Grégoire Wallenborn, and Annemie Wyckmans. 2023. Shifts in the smart research agenda? 100 priority questions to accelerate sustainable energy futures, Journal of Cleaner Production 419: 137946.

Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline McGuirk, and Simon Marvin. 2023. The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence, Urban Studies 61(6): 1168-1182.

Andrew Karvonen and Tom Hargreaves. 2023. Data politics in the built environment, Buildings & Cities 4(1): 920-926.

Stacy Ann Vallis, Andrew Karvonen, and Elina Eriksson. 2023. Pandemics and the built environment: A human– building interaction typology, Buildings & Cities 4(1): 158-173.

Andrew Karvonen, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Pawel Herman, Karl Johansson, Hedvig Kjellström, Marco Molinari, and Mikael Skoglund. 2021. The ‘New Urban Science’: towards the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary pursuit of sustainable transformations, Urban Transformations 3: 9

Andrew Karvonen, Matthew Cook, and Håvard Haarstad. 2020. Urban planning and the smart city: projects, practices and politics , Urban Planning 5(1): 65-68.

James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Andres Luque-Ayala, Chris Martin, Kes McCormick, Rob Raven and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan. 2019. Smart and sustainable cities? pipedreams, practicalities and possibilities, Local Environment 24(7): 557-564.

Gregory Trencher and Andrew Karvonen. 2019. Stretching “smart”: advancing health and wellbeing through the smart city agenda, Local Environment 24[7):610-627.

Christopher Martin, James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Krassimira Paskaleva,
Dujuan Yang, and Trond Linjordet. 2019. Smart-sustainability: a new urban fix?, Sustainable Cities and Society 45: 640-648.

Chris Martin, James Evans, and Andrew Karvonen. 2018. Smart and sustainable? five tensions in the visions and practices of the smart-sustainable city in Europe and North America, Technological Forecasting & Social Change 133: 269-278.

Krassimira Paskaleva, James Evans, Christopher Martin, Trond Linjordet, Dujuan Yang, and Andrew Karvonen. 2017. Data governance in the sustainable smart city, Informatics 4(4): 41.

Book Chapters

Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline McGuirk and Simon Marvin. 2024. Introducing AI into urban studies, in Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline McGuirk, and Simon Marvin (eds). 2024. Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI, London: Routledge.

Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline McGuirk and Simon Marvin. 2024. Conclusions: the present of urban AI and the future of cities, in Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline McGuirk, and Simon Marvin (eds) Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI, London: Routledge.

Andrew Karvonen. 2023. Smart cities, knowledge generation and the enduring pursuit of urban innovation, in B. De Munck and J. Lachmund (eds) Politics of Urban Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities, London: Routledge, pp. 253-269.

Marikken Wulff-Wathne, Andrew Karvonen, and Håvard Haarstad. 2023. The challenges of fostering citizenship in the smart city, in D. Mckinnon, R. Burns, and V. Fast (eds) Digital (In)justice in the Smart City, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Andrew Karvonen, Chris Martin and James Evans. 2019. University campuses as testbeds of smart urban innovation, in C. Coletta, L. Heaphy, L. Evans, and R. Kitchin (eds) Creating Smart Cities, 104-117, London: Routledge.

Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo and Federico Caprotti. 2019. Introduction: situating smart cities, in A. Karvonen, F. Cugurullo and F. Caprotti (eds) Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation, 1-12, London: Routledge.

Kerry Burton, Andrew Karvonen and Federico Caprotti. 2019. Smart goes green: digitalising environmental agendas in Bristol and Manchester, in A. Karvonen, F. Cugurullo and F. Caprotti (eds) Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation, 117-132, London: Routledge.

Gregory Trencher and Andrew Karvonen. 2019. Innovating for an ageing society: insights from two Japanese smart cities, in A. Karvonen, F. Cugurullo and F. Caprotti (eds) Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation, 258-274, London: Routledge.

Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo and Federico Caprotti. 2019. Conclusions: the long and unsettled future of smart cities, in A. Karvonen, F. Cugurullo and F. Caprotti (eds) Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation, 291-298, London: Routledge.