Books written by Rob Kitchin
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The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation
This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century.
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Digital Geographies
It is divided into six inter-related sections introduction to digital geographies digital spaces digital methods digital cultures digital economies digital politics With illustrious instructors and researchers contributing to every chapter, ...
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Creating Smart Cities
TABLE 1.2 The promise and perils of smart cities Source: Based on analysis in Kitchin (2015b), see endnotes 2 and 3 for ... Promotes the corporatization and privatization of city services, with the developers of smart city technologies ...
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The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences
Accessible in style, the book provides: A synoptic overview of big data, open data and data infrastructures An introduction to thinking conceptually about data, data infrastructures, data analytics and data markets Acritical discussion of ...
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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Given its broad, inclusive scope and unique online accessibility, it is anticipated that the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography will become the major reference work for the discipline over the coming decades.
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Key Texts in Human Geography
The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through... It will find itself at the top of a thousand module handouts. - THE Textbook Guide "Will surely become a ‘key text’ itself.
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Understanding Contemporary Ireland
This book provides a detailed, student-friendly overview of Ireland in the twenty first century and the remarkable economic and social transformations that have occurred since the late 1980s. The "Celtic...
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Understanding Contemporary Ireland
This book provides a detailed, student-friendly overview of Ireland in the twenty first century and the remarkable economic and social transformations that have occurred since the late 1980s. The "Celtic...
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Data and the City
This book, the companion volume to 2016’s Code and the City, offers the first critical reflection on the relationship between data, data practices and the city, and how we come to know and understand cities through data.
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Creating Smart Cities
This book, through a range of international case studies, suggests social, political and practical interventions that would enable more equitable and just smart cities.
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Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society
Multiple timescapes, with differing temporal features and logics, coexist, sometimes working in concert to shape the wider ... These produce a diverse set of temporal relations and rhythms (waiting, rushing, dead time) with respect to ...
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International encyclopedia of human geography. 7. Me - N
The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas.
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Key Texts in Human Geography
The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through... It will find itself at the top of a thousand module handouts. - THE Textbook Guide "Will surely become a ‘key text’ itself.
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Key Thinkers on Space and Place
In this latest edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, editors Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin provide us with a fully revised and updated text that highlights the work of over 65 key thinkers on space and place.
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Code and the City
... urban stack – the code, the hardware, etc. – that undergird integrated (and often proprietary) urban operating systems? Below the human–computer level of the urban stack, we have the wireless networks that transport the data from and to ...
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Stiffed
Tadhg Maguire wakes to find himself spooning a dead man.
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The Right to the Smart City
... smart cities (pp. 62À75). London: Routledge. Trencher, G., & Karvonen, A. (2018). Innovating for an aging society: Insights from two Japanese smart cities. In A. Karvonen, F. Cugurullo, & F. Caprotti (Eds.), Inside smart cities: Place ...
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The Data Revolution: A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures
... personal data, including data souvenirs (Petrelli et al. 2017), data patinas (Lee et al. 2016b), digital ceramics (Desjardins and Tihanyi 2019), and data craft (Thudt et al. 2017) ... imagine the epistemology of data science so that it.
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Understanding Spatial Media
Understanding Spatial Media brings together leading scholars from around the globe to examine these new spatial media, their attendant technologies, spatial data, and their social, economic and political effects.
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Atlas of Cyberspace
"The Atlas of Cyberspace" is one of the first books to explore the new cartographic and visualization techniques being employed to map the spatial and visual nature of cyberspace and...