Jonathan Rutherford

Bio

Jonathan Rutherford is a researcher director at LATTS and the Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC). His research is broadly concerned with unpacking the processes and politics of urban socio-technical change. Drawing on his background in geography and urban planning, but also his current position within an engineering school, it critically analyses the material production of contemporary urban spaces through the technologies and infrastructures (telecommunications, energy, water, climate control) that are deployed in and between them. He mobilises a socio-technical and systemic approach that recognises the intertwined relations between technological development and socio-political interactions in the development of cities. A comparative and transnational perspective enables an empirical focus on differentiated urban contexts. He has published three books, guest edited six special issues of key international journals, and written more than fifty journal articles and book chapters.