Urban indicators and dashboards

Epistemology, Contradictions and Power/Knowledge

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ID7366672
AutoresRob Kitchin (0000-0003-4458-7299), Tracey P Lauriault (0000-0003-1847-2738), Gavin Mcardle (0000-0003-0613-546X)
Ano2015
Volume2
Fascículo1
Páginas43-45
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRegional Studies Regional Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2168-1376 • E-ISSN: 2168-1376
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21681376.2014.991485
OpenAlexW2010314581
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

The three commentaries to our paper provide some interesting complementarities to our \narguments and we would like to thank the authors for taking the time to read and \ncomment on our work. Although coming from quite different perspectives, Mike Batty \nas an urban modeller and planner and Matt Wilson as a critical geographical information \nsystem (GIS) theorist, largely support our concerns around urban indicator and dashboard \nprojects: that they have certain technical and epistemological shortcomings and \nare often used to support particular interests. Whilst Batty cautions as to how indicators \nand dashboard might be used, reframed technically and supplemented by more sophisticated \nmodelling, Wilson is more concerned with how such projects are framed socially \nand economically as tools of capital accumulation. Neither provide analysis with which \nwe particularly disagree. In contrast, Meg Holden and Sara Moreno Pires, while they \nrecognize many of the issues we discuss, provide a critique of our analysis and a \ndefence of indicator and dashboards as presently conceived and practised. Their commentary \ndemonstrates to us how those who have vested a lot of time and effort into \nindicator and dashboard projects might misread and react to our argument, defending \nsuch projects without fully grasping our critique and the alternative epistemology we \nforwarded, or our own position within the indicator and dashboard landscape. The rest \nof this response, therefore, concentrates on their commentary

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