Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1709-1726

  Bulkeley, Harriet ^a   McGuirk, Pauline M ^b   Dowling, Robyn ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

actualisation; material politics; Smart grid; urban energy governance; urban materiality

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SMART CITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

EID: 84981234378     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X16648152     Document Type: Article

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