Joe Gallagher

  • For Transportation Beyond Commutes

    For Transportation Beyond Commutes

    Alongside my research on Baltimore’s bus system, as well as my larger interest in urban mobility infrastructure, spatial inequality, and the circulation of transit planning “best practice”, I have been wondering what de-commodified transportation might look like. What does public transit look like in a world without wage labor? What would a transportation system oriented…

  • Digital Growth Machine Bibliography

    Digital Growth Machine Bibliography

    On 1 March 2022, we moderated a series of sessions at the Annual Meeting of the AAG on the Digital Growth Machine. Each session yielded a number of suggested “further readings” which we collected here. As promised, here are the citations culled from the chat. Special thanks to Luis Alvarez León and Jovanna Rosen, who…

  • Digital Growth Machine Sessions at the AAG

    Digital Growth Machine Sessions at the AAG

    Feeding the Digital Growth Machine: Data, the city, and the urban process under digital capitalism Sponsored by the Digital Geography Specialty Group and the Urban Geography Specialty Group Organizers: Joe Gallagher (UMBC), Alicia Sabatino (UMBC), Evan Thomas (UMBC), Dillon Mahmoudi (UMBC), and John G Stehlin (UNCG) The growth machine has proven a durable concept for thinking about the capture of urban governance/policymaking by a class…