Book
Andrew Karvonen. 2011. Politics of Urban Runoff: Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City. London: The MIT Press.
**Winner of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s 2014 John Friedmann Book Award.**
Reviewed by Michael Finewood in The Professional Geographer; Gale Fulton in Journal of Planning Literature; Dawn Biehler in Journal of Historical Geography; Geoffrey L. Buckley in Environmental History; Christopher Wells in Journal of Urban History; Kristoffer Whitney in Technology & Culture; and Caitlin Dyckman in Journal of Planning Education and Research.
Special Issues
Craig S. Thomson, Tina Karrbom Gustavsson, and Andrew Karvonen (eds). 2024. Grand challenges facing our cities,Construction Management and Economics 42(2): 109-200.
Andrew Karvonen, Matthew Cook and Mark Lemon (editors). 2022. Techno-politics of the sustainable-smart city, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities: Governance and Cities
Alan Wiig, Andrew Karvonen, Colin McFarlane and Jonathan Rutherford (editors). 2022. Splintering Urbanism at 20: mapping trajectories of research on urban infrastructures, Journal of Urban Technology 29(1): 1-175
Simon Guy, Alan Lewis and Andrew Karvonen (eds). 2015. Conditioning demand: older people, thermal comfort and low-carbon housing, Energy Policy 84: 191-256.
Journal Articles
Andrew Karvonen, Dieter Bruggeman, Dick Magnusson, Michael Ornetzeder, and Harald Rohracher. 2025. Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Europe: layering and orchestrating Positive Energy Districts, Sustainability Science.
Jeremy Carter, Amanda Winter and Andrew Karvonen. 2024. Towards catchment scale Natural Flood Management: developing evidence, funding and governance approaches, Environmental Policy and Governance 32(6): 553-567.
Andrew Karvonen. 2024. Relations, territories, and politics of infrastructural regionalism, Territories, Politics, Governance 12(6): 884-889.
Craig S. Thomson, Tina Karrbom Gustavsson, and Andrew Karvonen. 2024. Expanding the field: combining construction management and urban studies to address grand societal challenges,Construction Management and Economics 42(2): 109-115.
Alan Wiig, Andrew Karvonen, Colin McFarlane and Jonathan Rutherford. 2022. Splintering Urbanism at 20: mapping trajectories of research on urban infrastructures, Journal of Urban Technology 29(1): 1-11
Amanda Winter and Andrew Karvonen. 2022. Climate governance at the fringes: peri-urban flooding drivers and responses, Land Use Policy 117: 106124.
Ahlam Ammar Sharif and Andrew Karvonen. 2021. Supporting, tinkering, adjusting and resisting: a typology of user translations of the built environment, Open House International 6(2): 266-280.
Andrew Karvonen. 2020. Urban techno-politics: knowing, governing, and imagining the city, Science as Culture 29(3): 417-424.
Nicholas A. Smart, Theodore S. Eisenman and Andrew Karvonen. 2020. Street tree density and distribution: an international analysis of five capital cities, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution – Urban Ecology 8: 562646.
Jenni Cauvain, Andrew Karvonen, and Saska Petrova. 2018. Market-based low-carbon retrofit in social housing: Insights from Greater Manchester, Journal of Urban Affairs 40(7): 937-951.
Andrew Karvonen and Simon Guy. 2018. Urban energy landscapes and the rise of heat networks in the UK, Journal of Urban Technology 25(4): 19-38.
Jenni Cauvain and Andrew Karvonen. 2018. Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators, Energy and Buildings 177: 394-401.
Gordon Walker, Andrew Karvonen, and Simon Guy. 2016. Reflections on a policy denouement: the politics of mainstreaming zero-carbon housing, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41(1): 104-106.
Kelly Watson, James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, and Tim Whitley. 2016. Re-conceiving building design quality: a review of building users in their social context, Indoor and Built Environment 25(3): 509-523.
Gordon Walker, Andrew Karvonen, and Simon Guy. 2015. Zero carbon homes and zero carbon living: sociomaterial interdependencies in carbon governance, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 40(4): 494-506.
Catherine Grandclement, Andrew Karvonen, and Simon Guy. 2015. Negotiating comfort in low energy housing: the politics of intermediation, Energy Policy 84: 213-222.
Simon Guy, Alan Lewis, and Andrew Karvonen. 2015. Conditioning demand: older people, thermal comfort and low-carbon housing, Energy Policy 84: 191-194.
Andrew Karvonen. 2013. Towards systemic retrofit: a social practices approach, Building Research & Information 41(5): 563-74.
Andrew Karvonen and Ken Yocom. 2011. The civics of urban nature: enacting hybrid Landscapes, Environment and Planning A 43(6): 1305-1322.
Andrew Karvonen. 2010. Metronatural™: inventing and reworking urban nature in Seattle, Progress in Planning 74(4): 153-202.
Steven A. Moore and Andrew Karvonen. 2008. Sustainable architecture in context: STS and design thinking, Science Studies 21(1): 29-46.
Ralf Brand and Andrew Karvonen. 2007. The ecosystem of expertise: complementary knowledges for sustainable development, Sustainability: Science, Policy and Practice 3(1): 21-31.
Book Chapters
Andrew Karvonen and Ralf Brand. 2022. Expertise: specialised knowledge in environmental politics and sustainability, in Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Second Edition, ed. P.G. Harris, 239-252, London: Routledge.
Andrew Karvonen. 2017. From bioregions to heterotopias: alternative pathways to territorialising the environment, in Territorial Policy and Governance: Alternative Paths, ed. Ian Deas and Stephen Hincks, 165-184, London: Routledge.
Andrew Karvonen. 2018. Afterword: planning and the non-modern city, in M. Kurath, M. Marskamp, J. Paulos and J. Ruegg (eds) Relational Planning: Tracing Artefacts, Practices and Practices, 317-325, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Andrew Karvonen. 2018. Community housing retrofit in the UK and the civics of energy consumption, in M. Eames, T. Dixon, M. Hunt, and S. Lannon (eds) Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow’s World, 19-32, London: Wiley-Blackwell.
Andrew Karvonen. 2017. Matthew Gandy, in Key Thinkers on Cities, ed. Regan Koch and Alan Latham, 87-92, London: Sage.
Simon Guy and Andrew Karvonen. 2016. District heating comes to Ecotown: zero-carbon housing and the rescaling of UK energy provision, in Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure Reconfigurations and Urban Change in the North and South, ed. Olivier Coutard and Jonathan Rutherford, 72-93, London: Routledge.
Andrew Karvonen. 2016. Low-carbon devices and desires in community housing retrofit, in Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Devices, Desires and Dissent, ed. Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Paterson, and Johannes Stripple, 51-65, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Andrew Karvonen. 2015. Pathways of urban nature: diversity in the greening of the twenty-first-century city, in Now Urbanism: The Future City is Here, ed. Jeff Hou, Ben Spencer, Thaisa Way, and Ken Yocom, 274-286, London: Routledge.
Andrew Karvonen and Ralf Brand. 2013. Expertise: specialised knowledge in environmental politics and sustainability, in Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, ed. P.G. Harris, 215-230, London: Routledge.
Simon Guy and Andrew Karvonen. 2011. Using sociotechnical methods: researching human-technological dynamics in the city, In Understanding Social Research: Thinking Creatively about Method, ed. Jennifer Mason, Angela Dale, 120-133, London: Sage.
Andrew Karvonen and Ralf Brand. 2009. Technical expertise, sustainability, and the politics of knowledge, In Environmental Governance: Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World, ed. Gabriel Kütting and Ronnie Lipschutz, 38-59, London: Routledge.
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