EPSRC Retrofit 2050

This work was carried out during 2010-2014. The aim of the work was to deliver a step change in current knowledge and capacity for urban sustainability by illuminating challenging but realistic social and technical pathways for the systemic retrofitting of UK city-regions. The Urban Foresight Laboratory work package was led by Tim Dixon and explored the technological and social innovations that will underpin transition in the UK’s cities, as well as investigating retrofit in the commercial sector. Urban foresight and backcasting techniques were used in the research.

Publications and outputs

• Eames, M., Dixon, T., Hunt, M.and Lannon, S., eds. (2017) Retrofitting cities for tomorrow’s world. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
• Dixon, T., Eames, M., Hunt, M.and Lannon, S., eds. (2014) Urban retrofitting for sustainability: mapping the transition to 2050. Routledge
• Eames, M., Dixon, T., May, T.and Hunt, M. (2013) City futures: exploring urban retrofit and sustainable transitions. Building Research and Information, 41 (5). pp. 504-516. ISSN 1466-4321
• Dixon, T., Eames, M., Britnell, J., Watson, G. B.and Hunt, M. (2014) Urban retrofitting: identifying disruptive and sustaining technologies using performative and foresight techniques. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 89. pp. 131-144

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