ABSTRACT
It is not only where a low carbon Britain will be made that is underdeveloped; so too is the issue of how this will be done and, at a democratic level, why. There is a large gap between symbolic representations of a low carbon Britain and their material manifestations. Taking this seriously implies a radical transformation in the ways in which relatively stabilised configurations are organised. These configurations relate to space and place; national-sub-national relations; the balance between economy and environment; production and consumption; public and private; and resource flows, and the socio-technical systems through which they flow, through and out of cities and regions.
