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Cities have always experimented with controlled environments designed to sustain and enhance human life. New technologies, urbanisation, and a changing climate are altering how we interact with nature in cities. There is strategic interest in creating artificial environments that enhance urban atmospheres and ecologies.

The theme examines whether controlled environments create new system-wide infrastructural responses designed to maintain and improve urban ecologies.

Research Questions

  • Is the capacity to create controlled urban ecologies a key international economic, social and security priority? 
  • How and where are new processes of environmental and atmospheric enclosure developing across different domains of urban life?
  • What forms of knowledge, technologies and practices support the production of controlled urban environments?
  • What tensions are associated with controlled environments designed to insulate urban spaces from atmospheric and ecological turbulences?

People

Theme Lead: 

UI members: Aidan While

Associates:  | Andy Lockhart

Visitors: Emma critchley | Donald McNeill | Jonathan Rutherford

Interrogations

Publications

Journal articles
  • Taylor Buck N  & While A (2020)  Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. ISSN 0964-0568.
  • Bulkeley H, Marvin S et al. (2019)  European Urban and Regional Studies 26(4) 317–335.
  • Lockhart A and Marvin S (2019) . Antipode 52(3): 637-659.
  • Marvin S & Rutherford J (2018)  Urban Studies 55(6) 1143–1162.
  • Marvin S (2016) Volumetric urbanism: Artificial ‘outsides’ reassembled ‘inside’. In: Coutard O and Rutherford J (eds)  Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Marvin S & Hodson M (2016) Cabin Ecologies: The Technoscience of Integrated Urban Infrastructure, In: Evans J, Karvonen A, Raven R (eds)  Abingdon: Routledge.
Books
  • Marvin S, Bulkeley H, Mai L, McCormick K, Voytenko Palgan Y eds. (2018) . London: Routledge.
Book chapters
  • Marvin S (2016) Volumetric urbanism: Artificial ‘outsides’ reassembled ‘inside’. In: Coutard O and Rutherford J (eds)  Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Marvin S & Hodson M (2016) Cabin Ecologies: The Technoscience of Integrated Urban Infrastructure, In: Evans J, Karvonen A, Raven R (eds)  Abingdon: Routledge.
Reports and other outputs
  • Marvin S and Rutherford J (2017)  The Independent, 15 July 2017.

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