Urban Theory and Knowledge Politics

Special Issues

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

Journal Articles

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): 1-11

Andrew Karvonen. 2020. Urban techno-politics: knowing, governing, and imagining the city, Science as Culture 29(3): 417-424.

Steven A. Moore and Andrew Karvonen. 2008. Sustainable architecture in context: STS and design thinkingScience Studies 21(1): 29-46. 

Ralf Brand and Andrew Karvonen. 2007. The ecosystem of expertise: complementary knowledges for sustainable developmentSustainability: Science, Policy and Practice 3(1): 21-31. 

Book Chapters

Andrew Karvonen and Jonas Bylund. 2023. Blessed mess: new modes of thinking, acting, and
learning for sustainable urban transformations
, in Kes McCormick, James Evans, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, and Niki Frantzeskaki (eds) A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 129-138.

Andrew Karvonen and Jonas Bylund. 2023. Small measures, large change: the promise and peril of incremental urbanisation, in Håvard Haarstad, Jakob Grandin, Kristin Kjærås, and Eleanor Johnson (eds) Haste: The Slow Politics of Climate Emergency, London: UCL Press, pp. 153-161.

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.

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. 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. 2017. Matthew Gandy, in Key Thinkers on Cities, ed. Regan Koch and Alan Latham, 87-92, London: Sage.

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.