$The city refracted. In real life: Olafur Eliasson at the Tate Modern. London, September 2019.$

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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irregularly updated blog about Worcester, Massachusetts: https://parisofthe80s.com/

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academic social media: https://um-boston.academia.edu/AlanWiig; Google Scholar

public writing

title	format	venue	date
Inside the Zone, outside the Commons: London’s Waterfront Redevelopment as Enclosure	short essay	New Geographies 12: Commons	March 2022
Waiting in the Platform City	blogpost	Platform Austria blog (all three posts also collected in Platform Urbanism and its Discontents, Nai Publishers, 2021)	Spring 2021
Searching For a Signal, Far From the Platformed City	blogpost	Platform Austria blog	Spring 2021
Accounting For Race and Whiteness within Platform Urbanism	blogpost	Platform Austria blog	Spring 2021
Safe and Secure living in Camden	short essay	How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables (Meatspace Press)	2019
China’s ‘Silk Road urbanism’ is changing cities from London to Kampala—can locals keep control?	op-ed	The Conversation	March 2019
Turbulence, territory, and global infrastructure in a new world (dis)order	short essay	Lo Squaderno: Explorations in space and society	March 2019
Is urban theory changing big data?	presentation	Harvard GSD Cities and Technology Debate	March 2018
Crafting a digital public	short essay	Limn Issue 7: Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics	July 2016
The Energy Demand of ‘the Bones of Cyberspace’	short essay	Vantage (Medium.com ‘magazine’)	January 2016
The Urban, Infrastructural Geography Of ‘The Cloud’	short essay	Vantage (Medium.com ‘magazine’)	December 2015

academic writing

Book

Infrastructuring Urban Futures: Networks, Power, Transformation. Editors: A. Wiig, K. Ward, T. Enright, M. Hodson, H. Pearsall, J. Silver. (2023). Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529225648 (open access/free download)

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).