The city refracted. In real life: Olafur Eliasson at the Tate Modern. London, September 2019.
professor & scholar of geography
biography: I am an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Florida in Gainesville. My research examines global infrastructure, smart cities, and the form, function, and politics of urban and economic development agendas across the North Atlantic.
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Refereed Journal Articles
- Apostolopoulou, E., H. Cheng, J. Silver, A. Wiig. (2023, early release) Cities on the New Silk Road: The Global Urban Geographies of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Urban Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2247283
- Marvin S., C. McFarlane, P. Guma, M. Hodson, A. Lockhart, P. McGuirk, A. McMeekin, C. Ortiz, Simone, A.M., A. Wiig. (2023) Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. (p. 1-22) https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12607
- Guma, P. K., and A. Wiig. (2022). Smartness Beyond the Network: Water ATMs and Disruptions from below in Mathare Valley, Nairobi. Journal of Urban Technology (p. 1-21).
- Wiig, A., A. Karvonen, C. McFarlane, and J. Rutherford. (2022). From the Guest Editors Splintering Urbanism at 20: Mapping Trajectories of Research on Urban Infrastructures. Journal of Urban Technology (p. 1–11).