Retrofitting Cities : Priorities, Governance and Experimentation (Paperback)

1. Introduction?Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin Part 1 The Problematic of Urban Retrofit and its Dynamics: Priorities, Places, Finance, Systems, Natures and Users 2. Seismic Shifts and Retrofits: Scale and Complexity in the Seismic Retrofit of California Bridges?Benjamin Sims 3. Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to Transform or to Ungovern??Carla de Laurentis, Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin 4. Socio-Technical Innovation in Heat and Cooling Networks ? Challenges of Financing New Systems in UK Cities?Janette Webb 5. Retrofitting Biogenic Urban Infrastructure?Stephanie Pincetl 6. Innovation in Urban Networks: Co-evolving Consumer Roles?Bas van Vliet Part 2 Governing and Organising Urban Retrofit 7. Retrofitting global environmental politics? Networking and climate action in the C40?Michele Acuto 8. Grassroots Innovations vs. Green Cluster Initiatives: Reconciling two different approaches in Housing Energy Retrofit Programming?Philip J. Vergragt and Halina Szejnwald Brown 8. Beyond the split incentive: Governing socio-technical relations in private rental housing retrofit.?Ralph Horne, Tony Dalton and Susie Moloney 9. NGOs as Intermediaries for Pro-Poor Urban Electrification?Bipasha Baruah 10. From consumers to clients: Regularizing electricity networks in Sao Paulo’s favelas?Andres Luque-Ayala Part 3 Experimenting With and Learning From Retrofit 11. Placing Low Carbon Transitions: Learning to Retrofit in Living Laboratories?James Evans 12. Demonstrating Retrofitting: Perspectives from Australian Local Government?Robyn Dowling, Pauline McGuirk and Harriet Bulkeley 13. Partnerships for climate change in Maputo, Mozambique?Vanesa Castan Broto, Emily Boyd, Jonathan Ensor and Sirkku Juhola 14. Retrofit transitions and the creative dynamics of squat tech?Jana Wendler and James Evans 15. Conclusion?Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin