6 November 2024

Transnational Urban Narratives Network reading group meeting

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Time: 5 – 7pm
Venue: Room 1310, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong view campus map 

For this session about smart cities and urban informatics, the reading group will read the eponymous 2nd chapter of Shannon Mattern’s book A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences (Princeton UP, 2021) together with Erin McElroy’s article “Dis/possessory Data Politics: From Tenant Screening to Anti-Eviction Organizing” (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 47 (2023)).

The discussion leader will be Prof. Wesley Attewell of the Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong.

Kindly sign up to the Nov 6 reading group meeting via this link: https://urbannarrativesnetwork.com/reading-group/. This will enable you to access the readings for the session and obtain the QR code for the venue.