City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world—from highway
interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms—yet most …

Following Jamie Peck's remit for this initial set of Exchanges section contributions to present
forward-positive approaches to economic geography, I offer American philosophical …

The urban process encompasses vast structures and practices engaged in creating,
extracting, and accumulating value in and from the urban landscape. But what is value and …

Considerations of justice have moved to a central place in planning theory following Susan
Fainstein's (2010) eloquent plea to elevate justice to the principal criterion for the evaluation …

Big Data's calculative ontology relies on and reproduces a form of hyperindividualism in
which the ontological unit of analysis is the discrete data point, the meaning and identity of …

Most practices of professional geography employ a realist ontology of knowledge, seeking
accurate representations of an external world that exists in itself, prior to our attempts to …

Democracy everywhere is under siege, overwhelmed by oligarchy, apathy, bureaucracy,
and spectacle, at best an ideal that has never been achieved. Yet against the dystopian …

5 Introduction parallel and related arguments from intellectual antecedents and companions
such as Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein and from subsequent social theorists such …

With a mantra that 'nobody is as smart as everybody,'Google maintains giant databases that
enable unprecedented quantitative analysis of a social world that is now majority urban. A …

Thinking Big Data in Geography offers a practical state-of-the-field overview of big data as
both a means and an object of research, with essays from prominent and emerging scholars …