Journal• ISSN: 2043-8206
Dialogues in human geography
SAGE Publishing
About: Dialogues in human geography is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Computer science. It has an ISSN identifier of 2043-8206. Over the lifetime, 948 publications have been published receiving 11543 citations.
Topics: Politics, Computer science, Human geography, Biology, Critical geography
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TL;DR: It is described how the growth of big data is shifting the emphasis from longer term strategic planning to short-term thinking about how cities function and can be managed, although with the possibility that over much longer periods of time, this kind ofbig data will become a source for information about every time horizon.
Abstract: I define big data with respect to its size but pay particular attention to the fact that the data I am referring to is urban data, that is, data for cities that are invariably tagged to space and time. I argue that this sort of data are largely being streamed from sensors, and this represents a sea change in the kinds of data that we have about what happens where and when in cities. I describe how the growth of big data is shifting the emphasis from longer term strategic planning to short-term thinking about how cities function and can be managed, although with the possibility that over much longer periods of time, this kind of big data will become a source for information about every time horizon. By way of conclusion, I illustrate the need for new theory and analysis with respect to 6 months of smart travel card data of individual trips on Greater London’s public transport systems.
1,003 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges and risks of using big data in geographic scholarship and raise epistemological, methodological and ethical questions, while at the same time tackling challenges, ameliorating the risks and thinking critically about big data as well as conducting big data studies.
Abstract: We are entering an era of big data – data sets that are characterised by high volume, velocity, variety, exhaustivity, resolution and indexicality, relationality and flexibility. Much of these data are spatially and temporally referenced and offer many possibilities for enhancing geographical understanding, including for post-positivist scholars. Big data also, however, poses a number of challenges and risks to geographic scholarship and raises a number of taxing epistemological, methodological and ethical questions. Geographers need to grasp the opportunities whilst at the same time tackling the challenges, ameliorating the risks and thinking critically about big data as well as conducting big data studies. Failing to do so could be quite costly as the discipline gets left behind as others leverage insights from the growing data deluge.
576 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking what questions or problems assemblages responds to or opens up, using a set of questions and answers.
Abstract: In this paper we explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking what questions or problems assemblage responds to or opens up. Used variously as a concept, ethos and descri...
576 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how global models of smart cities are provincialized in the regional state of Gujarat through local histories, politics and laws, and argue that Dholera smart city is part of a longer genealogy of utopian urban planning that emerged as a response to the challenges of development and modernity in post-independent India.
Abstract: Smart cities are now arguably the new urban utopias of the 21st century. Integrating urban and digital planning, smart cities are being marketed across the world as solutions to the challenges of urbanization and sustainable development. In India, in particular, there has been a move towards building 100 new smart cities in the future in order to spur economic growth and urbanization. Using the case of Dholera, the first Indian smart city, I examine how global models of smart cities are provincialized in the regional state of Gujarat through local histories, politics and laws. First, I argue that Dholera smart city is part of a longer genealogy of utopian urban planning that emerged as a response to the challenges of development and modernity in post-independent India. Second, that Dholera highlights a shift towards an ‘entrepreneurial urbanization’ in a regional state interested in scaling up a ‘Gujarat model of development’ for emulation at the scale of the nation. Finally, that in Dholera ‘speed’ is a ...
497 citations
TL;DR: The pervasive quality of governments to reach directly into our lives, the striking ability of far-flung corporations to make their presence felt at close quarters, and the ease with which NGOs fol...
Abstract: The pervasive quality of governments to reach directly into our lives, the striking ability of far-flung corporations to make their presence felt at close quarters, and the ease with which NGOs fol...
377 citations
Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 |
| 2025 | 122 |
| 2024 | 85 |
| 2023 | 167 |
| 2022 | 88 |
| 2021 | 102 |