Honours Seminar in Human Geography I

Attoh K, Wells K, Cullen D (2019) “We’re building their data”: Labor, alienation, and idiocy in the smart city. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37(6): 1007–1024.; Caprotti F, Liu D (2022) Platform urbanism and the Chinese smart city: The co-production and territorialisation of Hangzhou city brain. GeoJournal 87(3): 1559–1573.; Datta, A. and Muthama D. M. (2025) Peripheralised Labour: The digitisation of Nairobi’s land information system, in Datta, A. and Hoefsloot, F. eds. Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age. London: UCL Press.; Klein & Taylor (2026) End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World. MacMillan Publishers. ($32); Levenda AM, Mahmoudi D (2019) Silicon forest and server farms: The (urban) nature of digital capitalism in the pacific northwest. Culture Machine 18: 1–14.; Muldoon J (2025) Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming our Relationships. Faber and Faber. ($25ish); Nowak, S. (2023). The social lives of network effects: Speculation and risk in Jakarta’s platform economy. Environment and Planning A, 55(2), 471-489. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211056953; Pachico J (2024) Jungle House. Serpent’s Tail. ($20ish); While AH, Marvin, Kovacic M (2021) Urban robotic experimentation: San Francisco, Tokyo and Dubai. Urban Studies 58(4): 769–786.