Professor Simon Marvin

School of Geography and Planning

Professor of Geography

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s.marvin@Sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Simon Marvin
School of Geography and Planning
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
Profile

Simon Marvin is an internationally recognised academic with an excellent publication profile, with expertise in constructing conceptual understanding and empirical evidence of the changing relations between socio-technical networks and urban and regional restructuring.

He has extensive experience of directing successful urban research centres in previous roles at Newcastle University, Salford University, and Durham University, where he was Chair in the Department of Geography.

Simon has a number of links to Sheffield – during the mid-1980s he completed an MA in Urban Studies and Planning here and during his PhD studies at the Open University he undertook a case study of Sheffield’s combined heat and power district heating programme.

Research interests

Simon’s work is noted for the way it develops innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives to help open up and explore important new agendas for urban studies and infrastructural research.

He has played major roles within urban and planning research towards addressing important questions surrounding telecommunications, infrastructure and mobility, sustainability and, most recently, systemic transitions, climate change, ecological security and smart cities.

He is currently working as either PI or Co-I on five RCUK funded grants, including two projects, one impact grant, and two international networks employing five researchers as well as research work for the Swedish Mistra Urban Futures Foundation.

Finally, he regularly undertakes work for policy users, including central government and urban and regional agencies in the UK, Europe, and internationally. Simon is currently an urban expert on the JPI Urban Europe Scientific Advisory Board.

Publications

Books

Edited books

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Cugurullo F, Caprotti F, Cook M, Karvonen A, M P & Marvin S (2023) Conclusions, Artificial Intelligence and the City (pp. 361-389). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cugurullo F, Caprotti F, Cook M, Karvonen A, M c P & Marvin S (2023) Introducing AI into urban studies, Artificial Intelligence and the City (pp. 1-19). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cugurullo F, Caprotti F, Cook M, Karvonen A, McGuirk P & Marvin S (2023) CONCLUSIONS: The present of urban AI and the future of cities, Artificial Intelligence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on Ai (pp. 361-389). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S (2021) The global urban condition and politics of thermal metabolics, Global Urbanism (pp. 211-218). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S & Guy S (2019) Beyond the Myths of the New Environmental Localism, The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas (pp. 215-224). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ince R & Marvin S (2019) Retrofitting obsolete suburbs: Networks, fixes, and divisions, Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures: Contemporary International Cases (pp. 318-339). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Luque-Ayala A & Marvin S (2019) Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism, Handbook of Urban Geography (pp. 210-224). RIS download Bibtex download
  • de Hoop E, Smith A, Boon W, Macrorie RM, Marvin S & Raven R (2018) Smart urbanism in Barcelona: A knowledge-politics perspective In Jensen J, Späth P & Cashmore M (Ed.), The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Knowledge, Power and Governance Routledge View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Davies A (2018) Homelabs, Urban Living Labs (pp. 126-146). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S, Bulkeley H, Mai L, McCormick K & Palgan YV (2018) Introduction, Urban Living Labs (pp. 1-17). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S, Bulkeley H, Mai L, McCormick K & Palgan YV (2018) Conclusions, Urban Living Labs (pp. 248-257). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S, Bulkeley H, Mai L, McCormick K & Palgan YV (2018) Conclusions, Urban Living Labs (pp. 248-257). Taylor & Francis RIS download Bibtex download
  • Luque-Ayala A, Bulkeley H & Marvin S (2018) Rethinking urban transitions, Rethinking Urban Transitions (pp. 13-36). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Luque-Ayala A, Marvin S & Bulkeley H (2018) Introduction, Rethinking Urban Transitions (pp. 1-12). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M, Marvin S & McMeekin A (2018) The amenable city-region, Rethinking Urban Transitions (pp. 73-88). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Luque-Ayala A, Bulkeley H & Marvin S (2018) Rethinking urban transitions: An analytical framework, Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City (pp. 13-36). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S, Bulkeley H, Mai L, McCormick K & Palgan YV (2018) Introduction, Urban Living Labs: Experimenting with City Futures (pp. 1-17). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S, Bulkeley H, Mai L, McCormick K & Palgan YV (2018) Conclusions, Urban Living Labs: Experimenting with City Futures (pp. 248-257). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S & Slater S (2017) Competition for urban space: Tensions between conduits and corridors, Infrastructure Provision and the Negotiating Process (pp. 223-234). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Graham S & Marvin S (2017) Urban futures? Integrating telecommunications into urban planning, The Governance of Place: Space and Planning Processes (pp. 124-153). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Graham S & Marvin S (2017) Postscript: A manifesto for a progressive networked urbanism, Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory: Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 3 (pp. 257-275). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S & Silver J (2016) The urban laboratory and emerging sites of urban experimentation, The Experimental City (pp. 47-60). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S & Hodson M (2016) Cabin ecologies, The Experimental City (pp. 88-104). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M, Marvin S & Späth P (2016) Subnational, Inter-scalar Dynamics: The Differentiated Geographies of Governing Low Carbon Transitions—With Examples from the UK, Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (pp. 465-477). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Osborn S & Marvin S (2016) Restabilizing a heterogeneous network: The Yorkshire drought 1995-96, Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings and Plans (pp. 68-77). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Guy S & Marvin S (2016) Urban environmental flows: Towards a new way of seeing, Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings and Plans (pp. 22-37). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Guy S & Marvin S (2016) Local energy planning and electricity networks: Disconnections and reconnections, Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings and Plans (pp. 143-159). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Guy S, Marvin S & Moss T (2016) Conclusions: Contesting networks, Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings and Plans (pp. 197-206). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2016) Retrofitting Cities Priorities, governance and experimentation Introduction, RETROFITTING CITIES: PRIORITIES, GOVERNANCE AND EXPERIMENTATION (pp. 1-10). RIS download Bibtex download
  • De Laurentis C, Hodson M & Marvin S (2016) Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff Governing to transform or to ungovern?, RETROFITTING CITIES: PRIORITIES, GOVERNANCE AND EXPERIMENTATION (pp. 34-51). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2016) Retrofitting Cities Priorities, governance and experimentation Conclusion, RETROFITTING CITIES: PRIORITIES, GOVERNANCE AND EXPERIMENTATION (pp. 266-271). RIS download Bibtex download
  • De Laurentis C, Hodson M & Marvin S (2015) Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff, Retrofitting Cities (pp. 34-51). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2015) Introduction, Retrofitting Cities (pp. 1-10). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2015) Smart cities and the politics of urban data, Smart Urbanism (pp. 16-33). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S (2015) Volumetric urbanism: Artificial “outsides” reassembled “inside”, Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South (pp. 227-241). RIS download Bibtex download
  • McFarlane C, Marvin S & Luque-Ayala A (2015) CONCLUSION, Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn? (pp. 185-191). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gillespie A, Marvin S & Green N (2014) Bricks versus clicks: Planning for the digital economy, Digital Futures: Living in a Networked World (pp. 200-218). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2014) Governing the reconfiguration of energy in Greater London: Practical public engagement as 'delivery', Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation (pp. 89-100). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S (2013) Telecommunications and sustainable cities, Global City Regions: Their Emerging Forms (pp. 244-248). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Guy S & Marvin S (2013) Models and pathways: The diversity of sustainable urban futures, Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (pp. 9-18). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Perry B, May T, Marvin S & Hodson M (2013) Re-thinking Sustainable Knowledge-Based Urbanism Through Active Intermediation, Production and Use of Urban Knowledge (pp. 151-167). Springer Netherlands RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Scotland The low carbon 'Saudi Arabia'?, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 93-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Wales Knitting, prioritising and bounding the low carbon region, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 115-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Re-engineering state low carbon architecture, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 41-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Northeast England The low carbon industrial phoenix?, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 138-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) LOW CARBON NATION? Introduction, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 1-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Low Carbon Nation? Conclusion What kind of low carbon Britain?, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 193-211). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Low carbon Britain as spaces of experimentation, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 12-40). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Greater Manchester Low carbonism economic boosterism, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 176-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Greater London The race for the low carbon capital, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 156-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2013) Exclusive capabilities and low carbon strategies, LOW CARBON NATION? (pp. 73-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • May T, Hodson M, Marvin S & Perry B (2013) Achieving 'systemic' urban retrofit: A framework for action, RETROFITTING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (pp. 7-19). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bulkeley H, Hodson M & Marvin S (2011) Emerging strategies of urban reproduction and the pursuit of low carbon cities, The Future of Sustainable Cities: Critical Reflections (pp. 113-130). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M, Marvin S & Hewitson A (2010) Hydrogen in cities and regions: An international review, Hydrogen Energy: Economic and Social Challenges (pp. 153-174). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S (2007) Cities mediating technological transitions: The adaptability of infrastructure and infrastructures of adaptability?, International Handbook of Urban Policy, Volume 1: Contentious Global Issues (pp. 240-258). RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2007) Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies Palgrave Macmillan UK RIS download Bibtex download
  • Guy S & Marvin S (2007) Constructing Sustainable Urban Futures: From Models to Competing Pathways, SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOL 2: THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT METHODS (pp. 492-509). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Medd W & Marvin S (2006) Ecology of intermediation, Industrial Ecology and Spaces of Innovation (pp. 238-251). RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2004) Urban Space and the Development of Networks: A Discussion of the “Splintering Urbanism” Thesis, Sustaining Urban Networks (pp. 64-80). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S (1997) Telecommunications and the Urban Environment, Intelligent Environments (pp. 179-198). Elsevier RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marvin S () Smart Urbanism Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M () After Sustainable Cities? Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • May T, Hodson M, Marvin S & Perry B () Achieving ‘systemic’ urban retrofit, Retrofitting the Built Environment (pp. 5-19). John Wiley & Sons RIS download Bibtex download
  • Devine-Wright P () Renewable Energy and the Public Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bulkeley H () Cities and Low Carbon Transitions Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • () Hydrogen Energy Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Graham S () Disrupted Cities Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hodson M & Marvin S () Cities Mediating Technological Transitions: The Adaptability of Infrastructure and Infrastructures of Adaptability? Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Medd W & Marvin S () Ecology of Intermediation Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • () In the Nature of Cities Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • () Sustaining Urban Networks Routledge RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

Reports

  • Marvin S, While A, Kovacic M, Macrorie RM & Lockhart A (2018) Urban Robotics and Automation: Critical Challenges, International Experiments and Transferable Lessons for the UK RIS download Bibtex download