Dr Aidan While

Books

• (2020) Climate Urbanism. Springer International Publishing.

Edited books

• (Ed.) () Territorial Policy and Governance. Routledge.

Journal articles

• Hickman H & While A (2023) Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England. Land Use Policy, 124, 106429-106429.
• Marvin S, While A, Chen B & Kovacic M (2022) Urban AI in China: social control or hyper-capitalist development in the post-smart city?. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 4. View this article in WRRO
• Lin D & While AH (2022) Environmentalism and Chinese urban order: The ecological control line policy in Shenzhen, China. Political Geography, 97, 102685-102685.
• Leary J, Czyrnek-Delêtre M, Alsop A, Eales A, Marandin L, Org M, Craig M, Ortiz W, Casillas C, Persson J , Dienst C et al (2020) Finding the niche: A review of market assessment methodologies for rural electrification with small scale wind power. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 133.
• Taylor Buck N & While A (2020) The urban bioeconomy: extracting value from the ecological and biophysical. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. View this article in WRRO
• While A, Marvin S & Kovacic M (2020) Urban robotic experimentation: San Francisco, Tokyo and Dubai. Urban Studies. View this article in WRRO
• Chen B, Marvin S & While A (2020) Containing COVID-19 in China: AI and the robotic restructuring of future cities. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2), 238-241.
• Dunnning R, Hickman H & While A (2020) Planning control and the politics of soft densification. Town Planning Review, 91(3), 305-324. View this article in WRRO
• Whittle C, Jones CR & While A (2020) Empowering householders: Identifying predictors of intentions to use a home energy management system in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 139. View this article in WRRO
• Inch A, Dunning R, While A, Hickman H & Payne S (2020) 'The object is to change the heart and soul' : financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. View this article in WRRO
• Macrorie R, Marvin S & While A (2019) Robotics and automation in the city : a research agenda. Urban Geography. View this article in WRRO
• While A & Eadson W (2019) Households in place: socio-spatial (dis)advantage in energy-carbon restructuring. European Planning Studies. View this article in WRRO
• Taylor Buck N & While A (2017) Competitive urbanism and the limits to smart city innovation: The UK Future Cities initiative. Urban Studies, 54(2), 501-519. View this article in WRRO
• While A (2016) Who writes for Planning Theory & Practice and why?. Planning Theory and Practice, 17(3), 319-322.
• Sturge D, Sobotta D, Howell RJ, While A & Lou J (2015) A hybrid actuator disc - full rotor CFD methodology for modelling the effects of wind turbine wake interactions on performance. Renewable Energy, 80, 525-537. View this article in WRRO
• While A (2014) Editorial matters. Planning Theory & Practice, 15(4), 447-450.
• R. Jones C, Lange E, Kang J, Tsuchiya A, Howell R, While A, J. Crisp R, Steel J, Meade K, Qu F , Sturge D et al (2014) WindNet: Improving the impact assessment of wind power projects. AIMS Energy, 2(4), 461-484.
• Sturge D, While A & Howell R (2014) Engineering and energy yield: The missing dimension of wind turbine assessment. Energy Policy, 65, 245-250. View this article in WRRO
• While A & Whitehead M (2013) Cities, Urbanisation and Climate Change. Urban Studies, 50(7), 1325-1331.
• While A, Gibbs D & Jonas AEG (2013) The competition state, city-regions, and the territorial politics of growth facilitation. Environment and Planning A, 45(10), 2379-2398.
• While A (2012) Resisting the Growth Clamp. Planning Theory & Practice, 13(4), 503-506.
• While A (2012) The future of sustainable cities: critical reflections - Edited by John Flint and Mike Raco. Area, 44(3), 392-393.
• Leary J, While AH & Howell RJ (2012) Locally Manufactured Micro Wind Turbines for Rural Electrification: A Developing Countries Perspective.. Energy Policy, 43(0), 173-183.
• Jonas AEG, Gibbs D & While A (2011) The new urban politics as a politics of carbon control. Urban Studies, 48(12), 2537-2554.
• While A & Short M (2011) Place narratives and heritage management: the modernist legacy in Manchester. AREA, 43(1), 4-13.
• Jonas AEG, While AH & Gibbs DC (2010) Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: The new territorial politics of collective provision. Regional Studies, 44(2), 183-200.
• While A, Jonas AEG & Gibbs D (2010) From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(1), 76-93.
• Pendlebury J, Short M & While A (2009) Urban World Heritage Sites and the problem of authenticity. Cities, 26(6), 349-358.
• Tait M & While A (2009) Ontology and the conservation of built heritage. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(4), 721-737.
• While A & Tait M (2009) Exeter and the question of Thomas Sharp’s physical legacy. Planning Perspectives, 24(1), 77-97.
• While A (2008) Climate change and planning: Carbon control and spatial regulation. Town Planning Review, 79(1), vii-xiii.
• While A (2007) The State and the Controversial Demands of Cultural Built Heritage: Modernism, Dirty Concrete, and Postwar Listing in England. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 34(4), 645-663.
• Gibbs DC, While AH & Jonas AEG (2007) Governing nature conservation: The European Union Habitats Directive and conflict around estuary management. Environment and Planning A, 39(2), 339-358.
• While A (2006) Modernism vs Urban Renaissance: Negotiating Post-war Heritage in English City Centres. Urban Studies, 43(13), 2399-2419.
• While A, Jonas AEG & Gibbs D (2004) The environment and the entrepreneurial city: searching for the urban ‘sustainability fix’ in Manchester and Leeds. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 28(3), 549-569.
• Jonas AEG, While A & Gibbs DC (2004) State modernisation and local strategic selectivity after Local Agenda 21: evidence from three northern English localities. Policy & Politics, 32(2), 151-168.
• While A, Jonas AEG & Gibbs DC (2004) Unblocking the City? Growth Pressures, Collective Provision, and the Search for New Spaces of Governance in Greater Cambridge, England. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 36(2), 279-304.
• While A (2003) Locating art worlds: London and the making of Young British art. Area, 35(3), 251-263.
• While A & Haughton G (2001) Globalization, state restructuring and innovation in European water management systems: Reflections from England and Wales. EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES, 9(6), 721-737.
• While A & Bruff G (2001) Filling the Gaps in Redundancy Support: Lessons from Leeds. Regional Studies, 35(4), 363-367.
• While A, Littlewood S & Whitney D (2000) A new space for sustainable development? Regional environmental governance in the North West and the West Midlands of England. Town Planning Review, 71(4), 395-413.
• While A (2000) Accountability and Regional Governance. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 14(4), 329-345.
• Haughton G, Jones M, Peck J, Tickell A & While A (2000) Labour Market Policy as Flexible Welfare: Prototype Employment Zones and the New Workfarism. Regional Studies, 34(7), 669-680.
• Haughton G & While A (1999) From Corporate City to Citizens City?. Urban Affairs Review, 35(1), 3-23.
• Littlewood S & While A (1997) A new Agenda for governance? Agenda 21 and the prospects for holistic local decision making. Local Government Studies, 23(4), 111-123.
• Macrorie R, Marvin S, Smith A & While A () A Common Management Framework for European Smart Cities? The Case of the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities Six Nations Forum. Journal of Urban Technology, 1-18.
• While A & Eadson W () Zero carbon as economic restructuring: spatial divisions of labour and just transition. New Political Economy, 1-18.
• Simoes Aelbrecht P & while A () Millennials and the contested urban legacy of post-war modernist social housing in the UK. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 1-23.
• Lockhart A, While A, Marvin S, Kovacic M, Odendaal N & Alexander C () Making space for drones: the contested reregulation of airspace in Tanzania and Rwanda. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Chapters

• Castán Broto V, Robin E & While A (2020) Conclusions: Three Modalities for a New Climate Urbanism, Climate Urbanism (pp. 243-252). Springer International Publishing
• Castán Broto V, Robin E & While A (2020) Introduction: Climate Urbanism—Towards a Research Agenda, Climate Urbanism (pp. 1-11). Springer International Publishing
• While A (2014) Carbon regulation and low-carbon urban restructuring In Hodson M & Marvin S (Ed.), After Sustainable Cities? (pp. 41-58). London: Routledge.
• Jonas AEG, While AH & Gibbs DC (2010) Carbon control regimes, eco-state restructuring and the politics of local and regional development, Handbook of Local and Regional Development (pp. 283-294).
• Bulkeley H () Cities and Low Carbon Transitions Routledge

Book reviews

• While A, Berglund E, Pahl-Wostl C, Smith B & Rohilla S (2010) Book reviews. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 12(2), 223-233.
• While A (2009) Book Review: Three Decades of Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship, Economic Regeneration and Public Policy. Urban Studies, 46(8), 1749-1751.
• While A (2008) Book review: Culture, urbanism and planning. Edited by J. Monclús and M. Guàrdia. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. xix + 293 pp. £55.00 hardback. ISBN: 0754646238. cultural geographies, 15(4), 521-522.
• While A (2008) The practice of modernism: modern architects and urban transformation, 1954-1972. URBAN MORPHOLOGY, 12(1), 65-67.
• While A (2005) Book Review: Cosmopolis II. Mongrel cities in the 21st century. Progress in Human Geography, 29(3), 402-404.
• While A (2003) Devolution in practice: Public policy differences within the UK. REGIONAL STUDIES, 37(8), 872-873.
• While A (2003) City of revolution: Restructuring Manchester. URBAN STUDIES, 40(10), 2106-2107.

Conference proceedings papers

• Leary J, Howell R, While A, Chiroque J, VerKamp K & Pinedo C (2012) Post-installation analysis of locally manufactured small wind turbines: Case studies in Peru. 2012 IEEE Third International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET), 24 September 2012 - 27 September 2012.
• While A & Pendlebury J (2008) Modern movement conservation as progressive practice: Byker and british welfare state housing. Proceedings of the 10th International DOCOMOMO Conference - The Challenge of Change: Dealing with the Legacy of the Modern Movement (pp 55-60)
• Gibbs D, Jonas A & While A (2002) Changing governance structures and the environment: economy–environment relations at the local and regional scales. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Vol. 4(2) (pp 123-138)

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
• Dunning R, Henneberry J, Inch A, Payne S, Watkins C, While A, Young G & Hickman H (2017) Attitudinal research on financial payments to reduce opposition to new homes View this article in WRRO
• Dunning R, Watkins C, Inch A, Payne S, While A, Young G, Hickman H, Bramley G, McIntosh S, Watkins D & Valler D (2014) The impact of the New Homes Bonus on attitudes and behaviour View this article in WRRO