Academic Publications | The Programmable City

This page contains references to works published by team members concerning the Programmable City research. PDFs of all Rob Kitchin’s articles and books chapters can be found on his personal site, with preprint and doi links for the others below.

Books
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Book Chapters
Other Publications
Working Papers

Books:

Kitchin, R. (in press) Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society. Polity Books.
Kitchin, R. (2022) The Data Revolution: A critical analysis of big data, open data and data infrastructures. 2nd edition. Sage, London.
Kitchin, R. (2021) Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World. Bristol University Press, Bristol.
Cardullo, C. (2021) Citizens in the ‘smart city’: Participation, Co-Production, Governance. Routledge, London.
Kitchin, R. and Fraser, A. (2020) Slow Computing: Why We Need More Balanced Digital Lives. Bristol University Press, Bristol.
Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. and Shaw, J. (eds) (2019) How to Run a City Like a Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace Press, Oxford. PDF
Cardullo, P., di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R. (eds) (2019) The Right to the Smart City. Emerald, Bingley.
Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (eds) (2018) Creating Smart Cities. Routledge, London.
Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (Eds) (2018) Digital Geographies. Sage, London.
Kitchin, R., McArdle, G. and Lauriault, T. (eds) (2017) Data and the City. London: Routledge.
Evans, L. and Saker, M. (2017) Location-Based Social Media: Space, Time and Identity. Palgrave Pivot.
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M. (eds) (2017) Understanding Spatial Media, Sage.
Kitchin, R and Perng, SY. (eds) (2016) Code and the City, Routledge, London.
Evans, L. (2015) Locative Social Media: Place in the Digital Age. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kitchin, R. (2014) The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences. Sage, London.

Special issues:

Coletta, C., Heaphy, L., Perng, SY., and Waller, L. (eds) (2017) Data-driven Cities? Digital Urbanism and its Proxies. Tecnoscienza 8(2).

PhD theses

Bradshaw, Robert (2018) Instrumentalization in the Public Smart Bikeshare Sector. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Delaney, Aoife (2019) ‘Humanising policy from ‘Warriors to Guardians’: An evaluation of Coordinated Management and Emergency Response Assemblages in Ireland and the US. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
White, James Merricks (2019) Standardising the city: A material-discursive genealogy of CPA-I_001, ISO 37120 and BSI PAS 181. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Major Report

Kitchin, R. (2016) Getting smarter about smart cities: Improving data privacy and data security. Data Protection Unit, Department of the Taoiseach, Dublin, Ireland. pp. 82.

Peer Reviewed Articles:

White, J.M. (2021) Standardising the city as an object of comparison: The promise, limits and perceived benefits of ISO 37120. Telematics and Informatics 57. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2020.101515
Bradshaw, R. and Kitchin, R. (2021, online first) Charting the design and implementation of the smart city: the case of citizen-centric bikeshare in Hamilton, Ontario. Urban Geography. PDF, doi: 10.1080/02723638.2021.1878439
Cardullo, C. (2022) The Internet of People strikes back: Two future scenarios and a proposition. New Geography. Pre-print.
Delaney, A. and Kitchin, R. (2020, online first) Progress and prospects for data-driven coordinated management and emergency response: the case of Ireland. Territory, Politics and Governance. doi: 10.1080/21622671.2020.1805355
Kitchin, R. and Moore-Cherry, N. (2021) Fragmented governance, the urban data ecosystem and smart cities: the case of Metropolitan Boston. Regional Studies 55(12): 1913-1923. PDF doi: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1735627
Kitchin, R. (2020) Civil liberties or public health, or civil liberties and public health? Using surveillance technologies to tackle the spread of COVID-19. Space and Polity 24(3): 362-381. PDF, doi: 10.1080/13562576.2020.1770587
Heaphy, L. and Wiig, A. (2020) The 21st century corporate town: The politics of planning innovation districts. Telematics and Informatics 54: 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2020.101459
Perng, S.-Y. (2020) Computing Urban Life: Data Practices and The Transduction of Everyday Life, Mass Communication Research, No. 145/Fall, 197-240. (in Chinese; open access).
Perng, S.-Y. and Maalsen, S. (2020) Civic infrastructure and the appropriation of the corporate smart city. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110(2): 507-515. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1674629
Heaphy, L. (2019) Data ratcheting and data-driven organisational change in transport. Big Data and Society 6(2): 1-12. doi: 10.1177/2053951719867359
White, J.M. (2019) On the difficulty of agreeing upon a universal logic for city standards. City 23(2): 245-255. doi: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1615765
Perng, S.Y. (2019) Anticipating digital futures: ruins, entanglements and the possibilities of shared technology making, Mobilities 14(4): 418-434. doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1594867
Kitchin, R. (2019) The timescape of smart cities. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 109(3): 775-790, PDF, https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1497475
Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2019) The (in)security of smart cities: vulnerabilities, risks, mitigation and prevention. Journal of Urban Technology 26(2) 47-65, PDF, https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2017.1408002
Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R. (2019). Smart urbanism and smart citizenship: The neoliberal logic of ‘citizen-focused’ smart cities in Europe. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 37(5): 813-830. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774X18806508
Perng, S-Y., Kitchin, R. and MacDonncha, D. (2018) Hackathons, entrepreneurship and the making of smart cities. Geoforum 97: 189-197. PDF , doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.08.024
Coletta, C., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (2019) From the accidental to articulated smart city: The creation and work of ‘Smart Dublin’. European Urban and Regional Studies 26(4): 349–364, PDF , https://doi.org/ 10.1177/0969776418785214
Cardullo P and Kitchin R (2019) Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city: up and down the scaffold of smart citizen participation in Dublin, Ireland. GeoJournal 84(1): 1–13. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-018-9845-8
Evans, L. and Kitchin, R. (2018) A smart place to work? Big data systems, labour, control, and modern retail stores. New Technology, Work and Employment: 33(1): 44-57. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12107
Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (2018) Digital turn, digital geographies? Progress in Human Geography 42(1): 25-43. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516664800
Perng, S. and Kitchin, R. (2018) Solutions and frictions in civic hacking: Collaboratively designing and building a queuing app for an immigration office. Social and Cultural Geography 19(1): 1-20. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1247193
Cardullo P, Kitchin R and Di Feliciantonio C (2018) Living labs and vacancy in the neoliberal city. Cities 73: 44-50. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.10.008
Coletta, C., Heaphy, L., Perng, SY., and Waller, L. (2017) Data-driven Cities? Digital Urbanism and its Proxies: Introduction. Tecnoscienza 8(2): 5-18.
White, J.M. (2017) Rethinking the Spaces of Standardisation through the Concept of Site. Tecnoscienza 8(2): 151-174.
Kitchin, R. (2017) The realtimeness of smart cities. Technoscienza 8(2): 19-42.
Kitchin, R., Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Mac Donncha, D. (2017) Smart cities, urban technocrats, epistemic communities, advocacy coalitions and the ‘last mile’ problem. it – Information Technology 59(6): 275-284. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2017-0004
Coletta, C. and Kitchin, R. (2017) Algorhythmic governance: Regulating the ‘heartbeat’ of a city using the Internet of Things. Big Data and Society 4: 1-16. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717742418
Kitchin, R. (2017) Thinking critically about and researching algorithms. Information, Communication and Society 20(1): 14-29. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1154087
Evans, L. and Saker, M. (2016). Locative Media and Identity: Accumulative technologies of the self. Sage Open, August 2016, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016662692
Kitchin, R., Maalsen, S. and McArdle, G. (2016) The praxis and politics of building urban dashboards. Geoforum 77: 93-101. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.10.006
McArdle, G. and Kitchin, R. (2016) Improving the veracity of open and real-time urban data. Built Environment 42(3): 446-462. PDF, https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.42.3.457
Kitchin, R. (2016) The ethics of smart cities and urban science. Philosophical Transactions A 374(2083): 1-15. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0115
Perng, SY., Kitchin, R. and Evans, L. (2016) Locative media and data-driven computing experiments. Big Data and Society 3: 1-12. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716652161
Kitchin, R. and McArdle, G. (2016) What makes big data, big data? Exploring the ontological characteristics of 26 datasets. Big Data & Society 3: 1–10. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716631130
Saker, M., & Evans, L. (2016). Everyday Life and Locative Play: An Exploration of Foursquare and Playful Engagements with Space and Place. Media, Culture and Society, April 19, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443716643149
Saker, M., & Evans, L. (2016). Locative mobile media and time: Foursquare and technological memory. First Monday, 21 (2). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i2.6006
White J.M. (2016) Anticipatory logics of the smart city’s global imaginary. Urban Geography 37(4): 572–589. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1139879
Evans, L., Wu, Y. and Price, E. (2015). A new hope: Experiences of accessibility of services in deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences post-digital television switchover. International Journal of Digital Television, 6 (3), pp. 347-366. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdtv.6.3.347_1
Kitchin R (2015) Making sense of smart cities: addressing present shortcomings. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 8(1): 131–136. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsu027
Kitchin, R. (2015) The opportunities, challenges and risks of big data for official statistics. Statistical Journal of the International Association of Official Statistics 31(3): 471-481. PDF, https://doi.org/10.3233/SJI-150906
Kitchin, R. and Lauriault, T. (2015) Small data in the era of big data. GeoJournal 80(4): 463-475. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-014-9601-7
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T. and McArdle, G. (2015) Knowing and governing cities through urban indicators, city benchmarking and real-time dashboards. Regional Studies, Regional Science 2: 1-28. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2014.983149
Kitchin, R. (2014) Big data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts. Big Data and Society 1:1 – 12. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714528481
Kitchin, R. (2014) The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism. GeoJournal 79(1): 1-14. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-013-9516-8
Kitchin, R. (2013) Big data and human geography: Opportunities, challenges and risks. Dialogues in Human Geography 3(3) 262–267. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820613513388

Book Chapters:

Kitchin, R. (in press) Urban data power: capitalism, governance, ethics and justice. In Söderström, O. and Datta, A. (eds) Data Power in Action: Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis. Bristol University Press.
Kitchin, R. (in press) Performing critical data studies from the inside: working with government to change data regimes. In Lauriault, T. and Schaefer, M.T. (eds) Making a Difference! Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society. Amsterdam University Press.
Kitchin, R. (in press) Geosurveillance and society. In Kent, A. and Specht, D. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. Routledge, London.
Burns, R., Fast, V., Kitchin, R. and Mackinnon, D. (in press) Data Decisioning and Data Justice: A Dialogue with Rob Kitchin. In Mackinnon, D., Fast, V. and Burns, R. (eds) Digital (In)justice in the Smart City. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
Kitchin, R. (2022) Decentring smart cities. In Flynn, S. (ed) Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future. Intellect, Bristol. PDF
Coletta, C. (in press) ‘The Heartbeat Of Fieldwork: On Doing Ethnography In Traffic Control Rooms’. In Symon, G., Pritchard, K. and Hine, C. (eds) Research Methods for Digital Work and Organizations, Oxford, Oxford University Press (pre-print at https://osf.io/v368g/)
Bradshaw, R. (2021) Ethics and Design in the Smart Bikeshare Sector. In Zuev, D., Psarikidou, K. and Popsan, C. (eds) Cycling Societies: Innovations, Inequalities and Governance. Routledge, London.
Kitchin, R. (2020) A marginal contribution to the pandemic response? In Taylor, L.; Sharma, G; Martin, A.K.; Jameson, S.M. (eds) Global Data Justice and COVID-19. London: Meatspace Press. pp. 154-159. Full book
Kitchin, R., Colleta, C. and McArdle, G. (2020) Governmentality and urban control. In Willis, K. and Aurigi, A. (eds) The Companion to Smart Cities. Routledge, London. pp. 109-122. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2020) Urban science: Prospect and critique. In Willis, K. and Aurigi, A. (eds) The Companion to Smart Cities. Routledge, London. pp. 42-50. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2019) You’re entitled to what the data says you deserve. In Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. and Shaw, J. (eds) How to Run a City Like a Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace Press, Oxford. para: 13-100. PDF
Leszczynski, A. and Kitchin, R. (2019) The seduction of UberCity. In Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. and Shaw, J. (eds) How to Run a City Like a Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace Press, Oxford. para: 1179-1195. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2019) Introduction. In Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. and Shaw, J. (eds) How to Run a City Like a Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace Press, Oxford. para 1-12 PDF
Kitchin, R., Cardullo, P. and di Feliciantonio, C. (2019) Citizenship, Social Justice and the Right to the Smart City. In Cardullo, P., di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R. (eds) The Right to the Smart City. Emerald. pp. 1-24. PDF
Cardullo, P. (2019) Smart Commons or a “Smart Approach” to the Commons? In Cardullo, P., di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R. (eds) The Right to the Smart City. Emerald. pp. 85-98.
Di Feliciantonio, C. (2019) Against the Romance of the Smart Community: The Case of Milano 4 You. In Cardullo, P., di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R. (eds) The Right to the Smart City. Emerald. pp. 99-110.
Perng, S-Y. (2019) Hackathons and the Practices and Possibilities of Participation. In Cardullo, P., di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R. (eds) The Right to the Smart City. Emerald. pp. 135-150
Kitchin, R. (2019) Towards a genuinely humanizing smart urbanism. In Cardullo, P., di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R. (eds) The Right to the Smart City. Emerald. pp. 193-204. PDF
Kitchin, R., Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Mac Donncha, D. (2019) Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats. In Raco, M. and Savini, F. (eds) The New Technocracy. Routledge, London. pp. 201-213. PDF
Coletta, C., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (2018) Actually-existing Smart Dublin: Exploring smart city development in history and context. In Karvonen, A., Cugurullo, F. and Caprotti, F. (eds) Smart Cities, Global Cities. Routledge. pp. 85-101. PDF
Di Feliciantonio C (2018) L’economia politica dei processi di rigenerazione urbana smart. Uno sguardo su Milano. In: M. Fuschi (ed.) Barriere/Barriers . Firenze: Società di studi geografici. p.605-610. http://www.societastudigeografici.it/pdf/Barriere-Barriers.pdf
Kitchin, R. and Lauriault, T. (2018) Digital data and data infrastructures. In Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (eds) Digital Geographies. Sage, London. pp. 83-94. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2018) Governance. In Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (eds) Digital Geographies. Sage, London. pp. 238-249. PDF
Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (2018) Introducing digital geographies. In Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski (eds) Digital Geographies. Sage, London. pp. 1-10. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2018) Reframing, reimagining and remaking smart cities. In Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (eds) Creating Smart Cities. Routledge, London. pp. 219-230. PDF
Kitchin, R., Coletta, C., Evans, L. and Heaphy, L. (2018) Creating smart cities: Introduction. In Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (eds) Creating Smart Cities. Routledge, London. pp. 1-18. PDF
White, J.M. (2018) Politicising smart city standards. In Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L., and Kitchin, R. (eds) Creating Smart Cities. New York: Routledge. pp. 33-48
Heaphy, L. and Pétercsák, R. (2018) Building smart city partnerships in the “Silicon Docks”
In Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L., and Kitchin, R. (eds) Creating Smart Cities. Oxon and New York: Routledge. pp. 76-89.
Perng, S-Y. (2018) Promises, practices and problems of collaborative infrastructuring: The case of Dublin City Council (DCC) Beta and Code for Ireland. In Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (eds) Creating Smart Cities. Routledge, London. pp. 155-168
Evans, L. (2018) The privacy parenthesis: Private and public spheres, smart cities and big data. In Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (eds) Creating Smart Cities. Routledge, London. pp. 194-204
Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2018) The challenges of cybersecurity for smart cities. In Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (eds) Creating Smart Cities. Routledge, London. pp. 205-216. PDF
Kitchin, R. and Lauriault, T. (2018) Towards critical data studies: Charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work. In Eckert, J., Shears, A. and Thatcher, J. (eds) Thinking Big Data in Geography. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 3-20. PDF
Maalsen, S. and Perng, SY. (2018) Crafting code: Gender, coding and spatial hybridity in the events of Dublin Pyladies. In Luckman, S. and Thomas, N. (eds) The Craft Economy: Making, Materiality and Meaning, London: Bloomsbury. pp. 223-232
Perng, SY. (2018) The spaces, mobilities and soundings of coding. In Hartmann-Petersen, K, Perez Fjalland, E.L., and Freudendal-Pedersen, M (eds) Experiencing Networked Urban Mobilities, Amsterdam: Routledge. pp. 88-93.
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and McArdle, G. (2017) Data and the City. In Kitchin, R., McArdle, G. and Lauriault, T. (eds) Data and the City. Routledge, London, pp. 1-13. PDF
Kitchin, R. and McArdle, G. (2017) Urban data and city dashboards. In Kitchin, R., McArdle, G. and Lauriault, T. (eds) Data and the City. Routledge, London, pp. 111-126. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2017) Data-driven urbanism. In Kitchin, R., McArdle, G. and Lauriault, T. (eds) Data and the City. Routledge, London, pp. 44-56. PDF
White, J.M. (2017) Following data threads. In Kitchin, R., McArdle, G. and Lauriault, T., (eds) Data and the City. Routledge, London, pp. 85–97.
Kitchin, R. (2017) Big data. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. p 1-3. PDF
Evans, L. and Perng, SY., (2017) Spatial knowledge and behaviour. In Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M. (eds) Understanding Spatial Media, Sage. pp. 169-177.
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P., and Wilson, M. (2017) Introducing spatial media. In Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M. (eds) Understanding Spatial Media. Sage, London. pp. 1-21. PDF
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P., and McArdle, G. (2017) Indicators, benchmarking and urban informatics. In Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M. (eds) Understanding Spatial Media. Sage, London. pp. 119-128. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2017) Leveraging finance and producing capital. In Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M. (eds) Understanding Spatial Media. Sage, London. pp. 178-187. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2017) Big data – hype or revolution? In Sloan, L., Quan-Haase, A. and Metzler, K. (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. Sage, London. pp. 27-39. PDF
Lauriault, T. P. and Francoli, M. (2017) Openness, transparency, participation. In Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M. (eds) Understanding Spatial Media, Sage. pp. 188-203.
Lauriault, T. P. (2017), Open Spatial Data. In Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M. (eds) Understanding Spatial Media, Sage. pp. 95-109.
Evans, L. (2016) Feeling place in the city: strange ontologies and location-based social media. In Kitchin, R. and Perng, S-Y. (ed) Code and the City. Routledge, London. pp. 105-115
Kitchin R, McArdle G and Lauriault TP (2016) Smart cities and the politics of urban data. In: Marvin S, Luque-Ayala A, and McFarlane C (eds), Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn?, Routledge, pp. 16–33. PDF
Kitchin, R. and Perng, S-Y. (2016) Code and the city: introduction. In Kitchin, R. and Perng, S-Y. (ed) Code and the City. Routledge, London. pp 1-12. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2016) From a single line of code to an entire city: Reframing the Conceptual Terrain of Code/Space. In Kitchin, R. and Perng, S-Y. (ed) Code and the City. Routledge, London. pp. 15-26. PDF
Maalsen, S. and Perng, S.Y. (2016) Encountering the city at hacking events. In Kitchin, R. and Perng, S-Y. (ed) Code and the City. Routledge, London. pp.190-199
McArdle, G. and Kitchin, R. (2016) The Dublin Dashboard: Design and development of a real-time analytical urban dashboard. First International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, Split, Croatia. ISPRS Annals Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, III-4/W1, 19-25, doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-III-4-W1-19-2016 PDF
White, J.M. (2016) Moving applications: a multilayered approach to mobile computing. In Kitchin, R. and Perng, S-Y. (ed) Code and the City. Routledge, London. pp. 130- 145
Perng, S.Y., and Kitchin, R. (2015) Solutions, strategies and frictions in civic hacking, in Proceedings of MediaCity 5, School of Architecture, Design and Environment and Institute of Digital Art and Technology, Plymouth: Plymouth University, pp. 18-30.

Other Publications:

Kitchin, R. (2022) Conceptualising smart cities. Urban Research and Practice 15(1): 155-159. PDF, doi: 10.1080/17535069.2022.2031143
White, J.M. and Kitchin, R. (2021) For or against ‘the business of benchmarking’? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 45(2): 385-388. PDF, doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12978
Kitchin, R. (2019) The ethics of smart cities. RTE Brainstorm, 26th April.
Kitchin, R. (2018) Disruptive 3D geospatial technologies for planning and managing cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research blog
Kitchin, R. (2017) How vulnerable are smart cities to cyber-attack? Councils Journal, 3rd April,
Kitchin, R., with Schechtner, K. (2017). Bridging the adoption gap for smart city technologies. IEEE Pervasive Computing 16 (Apr-June): 72-75. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2016) Steering the real-time city through urban big data and city dashboards? Urbact Ireland, July 5th
Kitchin, R. (2016) Datagestuurde stedelijke planning en ‘smart cities’ Justitiële Verkenningen (in Dutch) PDF
Kitchin, R. (2016) Urban Big Data. The Planner.
Kitchin, R. (2015) What does big data mean for official statistics? Discover Magazine
Kitchin, R. (2015) The promise and peril of smart cities. Journal of the UK Society of Computers and Law. June.
Kitchin, R. (2015) Grounding urban data. New Geographies 7: 109-116. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2015) Spatial big data and the era of continuous geosurveillance. DIS Magazine
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T. and McArdle, G. (2015) Urban indicators and dashboards: epistemology, contradictions and power/knowledge. Regional Studies, Regional Science 2(1) 43-45. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2014) Educational code/space. Code Acts in Education. (11 March 2014)
Kitchin, R. (2014) “Big data should complement small data, not replace them.” LSE Impact blog. (27 June 2014)
Kitchin, R. (2014) Is big data going to radically transform how knowledge is produced across all disciplines of the academy? Big Data and Society blog. (23 June 2014)
Kitchin, R. (2014) Whither small data? Social Science Space. (19 September 2014)

Working Papers:

Kitchin, R. (2022) Urban data power: capitalism, governance, ethics and justice. Programmable City Working Paper 45. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2021) Decentring the smart city. Programmable City Working Paper 45. PDF
Kitchin, R. (2020) Using digital technologies to tackle the spread of the coronavirus: Panacea or folly? Programmable City Working Paper 44 PDF
Perng, S.-Y. and Maalsen, S. (2019) Civic infrastructure and the appropriation of the corporate smart city. Programmable City Working Paper 43. PDF.
Kitchin, R. (2018) Towards a genuinely humanizing smart urbanism. Programmable City Working Paper 42, https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5jkx4
Kitchin, R., Cardullo, P. and di Feliciantonio, C. (2018) Citizenship, Social Justice and the Right to the Smart City. Programmable City Working Paper 41, https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/b8aq5
Cardullo, P. (2018) Smart approach to the commons? A case for a public Internet infrastructure. Programmable City Working Paper 40, https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/u8dk2/
Cardullo P and Kitchin R (2018) Smart urbanism and smart citizenship: The neoliberal logic of ‘citizen-focused’ smart cities in Europe. Programmable City Working Paper 39. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xugb5.
Perng. S-Y. (2018) Shared technology making in neoliberal ruins: Rationalities, practices and possibilities of hackathons. Programmable City Working Paper 38 https://osf.io/k793w/
Heaphy, L. (2018) Interfaces and divisions in the Dublin Docklands ‘Smart District’. Programmable City Working Paper 37 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/z2afc
Fraser, A. and Kitchin, R. (2017) Slow Computing. Programmable City Working Paper 36 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/rmxfk
Kitchin, R. (2017) The timescape of smart cities. Programmable City Working Paper 35 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/y4e8p
Evans, L. and Kitchin, R. (2017) A smart place to work? Big data systems, labour, control, and modern retail stores. Programmable City Working Paper 34 http://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/z9dgc
Perng, S-Y. (2017) Practices and politics of collaborative urban infrastructuring: Traffic Light Box Artworks in Dublin Streets. Programmable City Working Paper 33. https://osf.io/2xpq7
Coletta, C. (2017) Rhythm-making, halfway ethnographies and ‘city heartbeats’. Programmable City Working Paper 32. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ydut4
Fraser, A. (2017) Land grab / data grab. Programmable City Working Paper 31. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9utyh
Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R. (2017) Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city: Up and down the scaffold of smart citizen participation. Programmable City Working Paper 30. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/v24jn
Coletta, C., Heaphy, L. and Kitchin, R. (2017) From the accidental to articulated smart city: The creation and work of ‘Smart Dublin’. Programmable City Working Paper 29 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/93ga5
Perng S-Y, Kitchin R and Mac Donncha D (2017) Hackathons, entrepreneurship and the passionate making of smart cities. The Programmable City Working Paper 28, socarxiv. Available from: https://osf.io/nu3ec
Cardullo, P. and Kitchin, R. (2017) Living Labs, vacancy, and gentrification. Programmable City Working Paper 27 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/waq2e
Kitchin, R., Coletta, C., Evans, L., Heaphy, L. and Mac Donncha, D. (2017) Smart cities, urban technocrats, epistemic communities and advocacy coalitions. Programmable City Working Paper 26 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/rxk4r
Kitchin, R., Coletta, C. and McArdle, G. (2017) Urban informatics, governmentality and the logics of urban control, Programmable City Working Paper 25 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/27hz8/
Kitchin, R. and Dodge, M. (2017) The (in)security of smart cities: vulnerabilities, risks, mitigation and prevention, Programmable City Working Paper 24 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/f6z63
Kitchin, R. (2017) Urban science: A short primer. Programmable City Working Paper 23, https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/sdsu2
Ryazanova, O., Petercsak, R., Heaphy, L., Connolly, N. and Donnellan, B. (2016) Perception of Value in Public-Private Ecosystems: Transforming Dublin Docklands through Smart Technologies. Working paper for Thirty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems, Dublin 2016
Coletta, C. and Kitchin, R. (2016) Algorhythmic governance: Regulating the ‘heartbeat’ of a city using the Internet of Things, Programmable City Working Paper 22, https://osf.io/bp7c4
Kitchin, R. and McArdle, G. (2016) Urban data and city dashboards. Programmable City Working Paper 21, https://osf.io/k2epn/
Kitchin, R. (2016) Reframing, reimagining and remaking smart cities. Programmable City Working Paper 20, https://osf.io/cyjhg/
Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T. and Wilson, M. (2016) Understanding spatial media. SSRN. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2799586
Maalsen, S and Perng, SY (2016) Crafting code: Gender, coding and spatial hybridity in the events of Pyladies Dublin, Programmable City Working Paper 19, SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=2797168
Perng, SY (2016) The spaces, mobilities and soundings of coding, Programmable City Working Paper 18, SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=2788574
Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (2015) Digital Turn, Digital Geography? Programmable City Working Paper 17, SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2674257
Perng, S-Y., Kitchin, R. and Evans, L. (2015) Locative media and data-driven computing experiments, Programmable City Working Paper 16, SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=2668164
Kitchin, R. and McArdle, G. (2015) The diverse nature of big data, Programmable City Working Paper 15, SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=2662462
Kitchin, R. (2015) Data-driven, networked urbanism. Programmable City Working Paper 14, SSRN
McArdle, G. and Kitchin, R. (2015) Improving the Veracity of Open and Real-Time Urban Data, Programmable City Working Paper 13, SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=2643430
Lauriault, T. P. (2015) Submission to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER), Government Reform Unit Open Data Licences Consultation Paper, Programmable City Working Paper 12, SSRN (https://ssrn.com/abstract=2586817)
Kitchin, R., Maalsen, S. and McArdle, G. (2015) The Praxis and Politics of Building Urban Dashboards. Programmable City Working Paper 11. SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=2608988
Perng, SY and Kitchin, R, Solutions and frictions in civic hacking, Programmable City Working Paper 10. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2606939
Kitchin, R. (2015) Big data and official statistics: Opportunities, challenges and risks. Programmable City Working Paper 9. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2595075
White, J. (2015) Anticipatory Logics of the Global Smart City Imaginary. Programmable City Working Paper 8, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2651099
Lauriault, T. P. (2014) Big Data Series: Critical Analysis of the Irish Big Data Skills Report, The Programmable City Working Paper 7, SSRN, (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2614499)
Lauriault, T. P. and Mooney, P. (2014) Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Public Engagement, The Programmable City Working Paper 6 SSRN (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2518233)
Kitchin, R. (2014) Thinking critically about and researching algorithms. The Programmable City Working Paper 5 SSRN (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2515786)
Kitchin, R. (2014) From a single line of code to an entire city: Reframing thinking on code and the city. The Programmable City Working Paper 4. SSRN (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2520435)
Lauriault, T. P. (2014) Observations and Recommendations: on the Republic of Ireland Open Data Strategy. The Programmable City Working Paper 3 SSRN (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2508016)
Kitchin, R. and Lauriault, T. (2014) Towards critical data studies: Charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work. The Programmable City Working Paper 2 SSRN (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2474112)
Kitchin, R. and Lauriault, T. P. (2014) Small Data in the Era of Big Data. The Programmable City Working Paper 1 SSRN (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2376148)