Publications

Initial publications are only just starting to be published after a couple of year’s of fieldwork. We have a number submitted or in progress, so please look back periodically to check for new papers and books.

Books

  • Hynes, D., Kitchin, R. and Mutter, S. (eds) (in press) The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning. Policy Press, Bristol.
  • Kitchin, R. (2025) Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Polity Books. Open access download.
  • Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (2024) Researching Digital Life: Orientations, Methods and Practice. Sage, London.

Articles

  • Kitchin, R., Davret, J., Kayanan, C.M. and Mutter, S. (in press) The temporal organisation and practices of planning work: The temporalities of digital infrastructure, the digital infrastructuring of temporality. Studi Organizzativi
  • Kitchin, R. (2025, online first) Data debates in urban development: The data politics of facts and counter-facts. Urban Research and Practice, doi: 1080/17535069.2025.2575316
  • Dawkins, O. and Kitchin, R. (2025) Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering. New Media & Society 27(8): 4402–4419. doi: 10.1177/14614448251338280
  • Kitchin, R., Davret, J., Kayanan, C. and Mutter, S. (2025, online first) Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of Irish planning system. Big Data & Society. doi: 10.1177/20539517251352822
  • Kitchin, R., Davret, J., Kayanan, C. and Mutter, S. (2025, online first) Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of the Ireland’s planning development and control, 2000-2024. Digital Geography & Society. doi: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100124
  • Kitchin, R., Davret, J., Kayanan, C. and Mutter, S. (2025) Data mobilities: Rethinking the movement and circulation of data. Mobilities 20(5): 1002-1020. doi: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2481309
  • Kitchin, R. and Dawkins, O. (2025) Digital twins and deep maps. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 50(1): 1-7 (e12699). doi: 10.1111/tran.12699

Book chapters

  • Kitchin, R., Hynes, D. and Mutter, S. (in press). The data politics and data power of housing, property and planning. In Hynes, D., Kitchin, R. and Mutter, S. (eds). The Data Politics of Property and Planning. Policy Press, Bristol.
  • Mutter, S., Hynes, D., Davret, J. and Turbridy, F. (in press) Organising collectives, collectivising data: Working together (on) disparate data to resist evictions in Ireland. In Hynes, D., Kitchin, R. and Mutter, S. (eds). The Data Politics of Property and Planning. Policy Press, Bristol.
  • Davret, J., Hynes, D. and Kitchin, R. (in press) Fractured data infrastructures: Socio-material frictions in the digitalisation of Irish planning. In Gobel, H., Reimers, I. and Burry, R.V. (eds) Grounding Digitalization: Cultural Perspectives on Materialities, Technologies and Spaces. Transcript. pp. 17-33.
  • Davret, J., Kayanan, C.M., Kitchin, R. and Mutter, S. (in press) The nature and development of a planning data ecosystem. In Aaltonen, A., Lyytinen, K. and Stelmaszak, M. (eds) Research Handbook on Digital Data. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
  • Kitchin, R. (2025) Local data analysis and management. In Nijkamp, P., Kourtit, K., Haynes, K., and Elburz, Z. (eds) Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science. Edgar Elgar, Cheltenham. pp. 331-32.
  • Baumann, Y., Frenzel, J., Guay, E., King, L.I., Megelas, A., Renzi, A., Rone, J., Shahamati, S., Vaughan, H., Vukov, T., Kitchin, R. and Bates, J. (2024) Technological spatial politics, in Jarke, J. and Bates, J. (eds) Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-abilities in a Datafied World. Bristol University Press, pp. 159-185.
  • Kitchin, R. (2024) Performing critical data studies from the inside: Working with government to change data regimes. In Schäfer, M.T., van Es, K. and Lauriault, T. and (eds) Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention. Amsterdam University Press. pp, 35-45.

Working papers

  • Kitchin, R., Conroy, S., Halpin, C., Harris, E., Hynes, D. and Mumby, H. (2025) The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues. Data Stories Working Paper 7. Working Paper. Maynooth University. https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20557/
  • Kayanan, C.M. (2025) Housing Need and Demand Assessment Policy Report. Data Stories Working Paper 7, https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19481/
  • Kayanan, C., Mutter, S., Davret, J. and Kitchin, R. (2024) The digital turn in planning and ‘good enough’ planning systems, data and outcomes. Data Stories Working Paper 6, https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/19278/
  • Kitchin, R., Davret, J., Kayanan, C. and Mutter, S. (2024) A genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of the Ireland’s planning development and control, 2000-2024. Data Stories Working Paper 5, https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/19264/
  • Kitchin, R., Davret, J., Kayanan, C. and Mutter, S. (2024) Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of Irish planning system. Data Stories Working Paper 4, https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/19238/
  • Kitchin, R., Davret, J., Kayanan, C. and Mutter, S. (2024) Data mobilities: Rethinking the movement and circulation of data. Data Stories Working Paper 3, https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/18716/
  • Kitchin, R. and Murphy, A. (2024) Library Services for Housing and Planning Publications in Ireland. Data Stories Working Paper 2, https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/18612/
  • Kitchin, R. (2023) Arts-based methods for researching digital life. Data Stories Working Paper 1. https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/16870/

 

Here are some related, relevant publications from previous funded research. For a full list with links to PDFs visit Rob Kitchin’s open access repository.

  • Kitchin, R. (2022) The Data Revolution: A Critical Approach to Big Data, Open Data, and Data Infrastructures. 2nd edition. Sage, London. (10 new chapters, rest revised from 1st ed).
  • Kitchin, R. (2021) Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World. Bristol University Press. Book website
  • 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. and Stehle, S. (2021) Can smart city data be used to create new official statistics? Journal of Official Statistics 37(1): 121–147, PDF doi: 10.2478/JOS-2021-0006
  • Kitchin, R., Young, G. and Dawkins, O. (2021) Planning and 3D spatial media: progress, prospects, and the knowledge and experiences of local government planners. Planning Theory and Practice 22(3): 349-367. PDF. doi: 10.1080/14649357.2021.1921832
  • Dawkins, O., Kitchin, R., Young, G. and Zawadzki, T. (2021) City dashboards and 3D geospatial technologies for urban planning and management. In Rae, A. and Wong, C. (eds) Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management. Sage, London. pp. 83-102. PDF
  • 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, Governance. doi: 10.1080/21622671.2020.1805355
  • Stehle, S. and Kitchin, R. (2020) Real-time and archival data visualisation techniques in city dashboards. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 34(2): 344-366, PDF, doi: 10.1080/13658816.2019.1594823
  • Kitchin, R., Dawkins, O. and Young, G. (2019) Prospects for an intelligent planning system. Planning Theory and Practice 20(4): 595-599. PDF doi: 10.1080/14649357.2019.1651997
  • Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. and Shaw, J. (eds) (2019) How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace Press, Oxford. PDF
  • Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. and Shaw, J. (2019) Introduction. In Graham, M., Kitchin, R., Mattern, S. and Shaw, J. (eds) How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace Press, Oxford. para 1-12. 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 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 Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace Press, Oxford. para: 1179-1195. PDF
  • Kitchin, R. (2019) Ghost estates. In Lucey, B., Maher, E. and O’Brien, E. (eds) The A-Z of the Celtic Tiger. Peter Lang. pp. 143-44. 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. and Lauriault, T. (2018) Towards critical data studies: Charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work. In Thatcher, J., Eckert, J. and Shears, A. (eds) Thinking Big Data in Geography. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 3-20. PDF
  • Hearne, R., O’Callaghan, C., Di Feliciantonio, C. and Kitchin, R. (2018) The relational articulation of housing crisis and activism in post-crash Dublin, Ireland. In Gray, N. (ed) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 153-167. PDF
  • Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and McArdle, G. (Eds) (2017) Data and the City. Routledge, London.
  • 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. (2017) Data-driven urbanism. In Kitchin, R., McArdle, G. and Lauriault, T. (eds) Data and the City.  Routledge, London, pp. 44-56. PDF
  • Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P. and Wilson, M. (Eds) (2017) Understanding Spatial Media.  Sage, London.
  • 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. and McArdle, G. (2017) Urban data and city dashboards: Six key issues. In Kitchin, R., McArdle, G. and Lauriault, T. (eds) Data and the City.  Routledge, London, pp. 111-126. PDF
  • Kitchin, R., Maalsen, S. and McArdle, G. (2016) The praxis and politics of building urban dashboards. Geoforum 77: 93-101. PDF, doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.10.006
  • Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T.P., and McArdle, G. (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, London. pp. 16-33. PDF
  • McArdle, G. and Kitchin, R. (2016) Improving the veracity of open and real-time urban data. Built Environment 42(3): 446-462, PDF, doi: 10.2148/benv.42.3.457
  • Kitchin, R., Hearne, R. and O’Callaghan, C. (2016) Housing. In Roche, W.K., O’Connell, P. and Prothero, A. (eds) Austerity and Recovery in Ireland: Europe’s Poster Child and the Great Recession. Oxford University Press. pp. 272-289. PDF
  • 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, doi: 10.1080/21681376.2014.983149
  • Kitchin, R. (2015) ‘The opportunities, challenges and risks of big data for official statistics’. Statistical Journal of the International Association of Official Statistics, 31: 471 – 481. PDF, doi: 10.3233/SJI-150906
  • O’Callaghan, C., Boyle, M., Kelly, S., and Kitchin, R. (2015) Topologies and topographies of Ireland’s neoliberal crisis. Space and Polity, 19: 31-46. PDF, doi: 10.1080/13562576.2014.991120
  • Kitchin, R. (2015) ‘Housing’. In: Gleeson, J. (eds.) The Atlas of the Island of Ireland, AIRO/ICLRD: Belfast. PDF
  • Kitchin, R. O’Callaghan, C. and Gleeson, J. (2014) ‘The new ruins of Ireland? Unfinished estates in the post-Celtic Tiger era. ‘ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38: 1069-1080, PDF, 10.1111/1468-2427.12118
  • O’Callaghan, C., Boyle, M. and Kitchin, R. (2014) Post-politics, crisis, and Ireland’s ghost estates. Political Geography 42: 121–133, PDF, doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.07.006
  • Hearne, R., Kitchin, R. and O’Callaghan, C. (2014) ‘Spatial justice and housing in Ireland’. In: Kearns, G., Meredith, D. and Morrissey, J. (eds.) Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis, Royal Irish Academy: Dublin. pp. 57-77. PDF
  • Kitchin, R. (2014) ‘Engaging publics: Writing as praxis.’ Cultural Geographies, 21: 153-157, PDF, doi: 10.1177/1474474012462535
  • Kitchin, R. (2013) Making informed decisions on future housing policy.  Housing Ireland 3: 36-41. PDF
  • Kitchin, R., O’Callaghan, C., Boyle, M., Gleeson J. and Keaveney, K. (2012) ‘Placing neoliberalism: The rise and fall of Irelands Celtic Tiger’. Environment and Planning A, 44: 1302-1326. PDF, doi: 0.1068/a44349
  • Walsh, C. and Kitchin, R. (2012) ‘Supporting Evidence-Informed Spatial Planning in Ireland: A Research Perspective.’ Pleanail, 18: 75-89. PDF

 

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