Call for Papers
DATA, HOUSING and PLANNING
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS Annual Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, March 24-28, 2025
Organisers: Rob Kitchin, Juliette Davret, Carla Kayanan (all Maynooth University) and Taylor Shelton (Georgia State University).
Sponsored by: Digital Geography Specialty Group (DGSG) and Urban Geography Specialty Group (UGSG)
Producing city and regional development plans, making planning decisions, formulating planning and housing policies, investing in real-estate ventures, guiding day-to-day property management, and organising counter-movements are ever more reliant on a variety of planning, property and land data, produced and made sense of by a range of stakeholders (e.g., state, business, NGOs, civil society, academia, media). A variety of data-driven systems and practices have been created for generating, managing and extracting insight from such data, including GIS, spatial decision support systems, modelling and analytic software, urban dashboards, city information modelling, and property platforms. Despite the centrality of housing and planning data to city and regional development, management and policy, they are treated largely at face value or solely consider their technical shortcomings. This session(s) aims to explore the data politics and data power at play across planning and property data lifecycles and in data use. In particular, the session aims to explore with respect to housing and planning:
- The data lifecycle
- The politics of measurement
- Data access, data sharing and data mobilities
- The constitution and operation of data assemblages and data ecosystems
- Data labour and data practices
- Data services, data markets and data capitalism
- The construction of data narratives and telling of data stories
- Data quality and data standards
- Silences, gaps, occlusions and data debates
- Data governance and data management
- Data policy, data strategy and data futures
- Data activism and counter-data actions
- Data ethics and data justice
We invite submissions that focus centrally on the underlying evidence base rather than on housing and planning per se: that is, papers that tell stories about data, rather than stories with data.
Submission Guidelines: Please submit a title, abstract of up to 200 words, and 5 keywords to Rob.Kitchin@mu.ie by Friday, October 11th. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by Friday, October 18th with the recognition that the AAG’s abstract submission deadline is October 31st.
Conference Details: https://www.aag.org/events/aag2025/
For further information, please contact Rob.Kitchin@mu.ie, Juliette.Davret@mu.ie, Carla.Kayanan@mu.ie or jshelton19@gsu.edu