
Joe Shaw is an OII DPhil student. His research is concerned with the geography of information, property market technologies (PropTech) and critical urbanism.
Joe Shaw
DPhil student
Profile
Joe Shaw is a student on the DPhil in Information, Communication & the Social Sciences.
Joe’s DPhil research examines disruption and innovation within the ‘PropTech’ industry and the global real estate market. In particular, he is interested in the market effects of of data analytics platforms which promise heightened accuracy and efficiency in the property valuation process. His research seeks to explain how such technologies are transforming investment practices, including by producing new global real estate assets and new processes of urbanisation.
Joe originally worked for five years in architectural practice before pursuing a masters in urban geography. His masters research examined the technologies, cultures and politics of the volunteer-led recovery effort in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. More recently he has worked in market research, data analytics and publishing.
Research interests
Sociology of technology, political economy, urbanisation, real estate, financialisation, gentrification, performativity, post-politics, ethnography, user-generated content, PropTech, FinTech, Smart Cities.
Positions held at the OII
- Research Assistant, January 2015 – December 2015
- DPhil student, October 2014 –
Supervisors
- Professor Mark Graham (OII)
- Professor Danny Dorling (School of Geography)
Books
- (2019) How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London, United Kingdom: Meatspace Press.
- (2017) Il nostro diritto digitale alla città. openpolis.
- (2017) Our Digital Rights to the City. Oxford: Meatspace Press.
- (2017) Towards a Fairer Gig Economy. Meatspace Press.
Chapters
- (2020) "Digital information and the right to the city" In: The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities Willis, K. and Aurigi, A. (eds.) First Edition. London: Routledge.
- (2018) "Ein Informationelles Recht auf Stadt" In: Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten. transcript Verlag. 177-204.
- (2018) "Ein informationelles Recht auf Stadt? Code, Content, Kontrolle und die Urbanisierung von Information" In: Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten Bauriedl, S. and Strüver, A. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 177-204.
- (2017) "An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information" In: The Right to the City: A Verso Report. London: Verso.
Journal articles
- (2018) "Platform Real Estate: theory and practice of new urban real estate markets", Urban Geography. 41 (8) 1037-1064.
- (2017) "An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information", Antipode. 49 (4) 907-927.
Internet publications
- (2017) Book Review: Networks of New York: An Internet Infrastructure Field Guide by Ingrid Burrington. LSE Review of Books.
Presentations
- (2019) The Hidden Hand of the Hipster: real estate data analytics platforms and Build-to-Rent investment. Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE). CaCHE.
- (2017) Place-faking: fermenting resistance through digital productions of space. RGS-IBG London.
- (2017) Our Digital Rights to the City. Museum of Architecture, London, UK..
- (2017) Data-Driven Gentrification: small data and the dissolving city. University of York, UK..
Blog
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Platform Real Estate
7 November 2019
Author: Joe Shaw
Like the legal profession, it has often been said that the world of real estate is characterised by ‘oily connections‘ and personal networks in ...
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New book: How to Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables
29 October 2019
Authors: Mark Graham, Joe Shaw
Should cities be run like businesses? Should city services and infrastructure be run by businesses? For some urban commentators, policy-makers, politicians and corporate lobby ...
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The Right to the City: free e-book from Verso
13 November 2017
Author: Joe Shaw
We’re pleased to say that Mark Graham and I have had our recent paper on digital information and Henri Lefebvre’s right to the city ...
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AAG Sessions: An Informational Right to the City?
17 November 2015
Author: Joe Shaw
I am delighted to announce that our call for papers surrounding information and the right to the city has been extremely successful. Mark Graham ...
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CfP at AAG 2016: An Informational Right to the City? Rethinking the Production, Consumption, and Governance of Digital Geographic Information
3 September 2015
Author: Joe Shaw
After presenting our paper on the same theme at ICCG 2015 in Palestine, myself and Mark Graham are planning a session for the Association ...
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Code, Content, and Control: An Informational Right to the City?
25 January 2015
Author: Joe Shaw
I am pleased to announce that myself and Mark Graham have had an abstract accepted to the 7th International Conference for Critical Geography in ...
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