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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This groundbreaking book is the first to put housing, property and planning data at the centre of critical analysis. While such data shape...
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  • 27 October 2026
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This groundbreaking book is the first to put housing, property and planning data at the centre of critical analysis. While such data shape key decisions about housing and urban development, little attention has been paid to the politics and praxes of their production and use.

Bringing together international and interdisciplinary perspectives, the book examines how governments, real estate and PropTech industries, and civil society actors create, process, share and use housing, planning and property data. Covering themes from tokenized real estate to tenant data activism, it offers a vital reflection on data power and justice in contemporary urban governance.

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Price: $41.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date: 27 October 2026
ISBN: 9781447379348
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Regional and area planning, Development studies, Human geography, Data capture and analysis
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“This book presents a fascinating, innovative and important analysis of the politics of housing and planning data. Drawing on critical data studies, it illuminates how the generation, analysis, processing and increasing commodification of these data shape housing markets, economies and social inequalities. These issues have received limited critical attention to date so this book fills a key gap in the housing studies literature.” Michelle Norris, University College Dublin

“This essential reference for scholars examines how housing, property and planning data are entangled with the political economy of state regimes and the PropTech market. Its value lies in the fascinating array of cases that illustrate how asymmetries in data power can be resisted and challenged to achieve data justice.” Ayona Datta, University College London

“This timely edited collection offers a compelling exploration of how data is reshaping housing, property, and planning. Bringing together diverse perspectives, it shines a light on the power, politics, and inequalities embedded in our data-driven future. As we enter the era of AI, these issues must remain front of mind for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers shaping our urban environments.” Christopher Pettit, UNSW

“The fast-moving world of open-source property and housing data can often appear alluring to the researcher, but there are pitfalls aplenty for the uninitiated. This edited volume alerts to the hazards, and considerable potential, of data as a means of making sense of the housing crisis. Cogent, lucid and essential for anyone working with administrative and big data in urban studies.” Phil Hubbard, King’s College London

Danielle Hynes is Post-Doctoral Researcher on Rental Vulnerability Index project, University of Sydney.

Rob Kitchin is Professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and principal investigator of the ERC funded project ‘Data Stories: Telling Stories About and With Planning and Property Data’.

Samuel Mutter is Post-Doctoral Researcher on Data Stories, Maynooth University.

Introduction

1. Data Politics and Data Power in Housing, Property and Planning - Rob Kitchin, Danielle Hynes and Samuel Mutter

Part I: The Data Politics of the Housing, Property and Planning Evidence Base

2. Telling Stories with Vacancy Data: Navigating Between Housing Politics and Praxis - Cian O’Callaghan, Kathleen Stokes and Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn

3. Data Deferral: Speculating About Property Information - Elsa Noterman

4. Digging Through Data: Recursive Digital/Material Research on Post-Crash Property Development in the Dublin Docklands - Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn

Part II: The Data Politics of State Property and Planning Regimes

5. Are We Just Feeding the Beast? Addressing Unintended Consequences of Open Planning Data and Analytics - Claire Daniel

6. Counting the Cost of Public Housing: Uses and Abuses of Subsidy Statistics - Alistair Sisson and Alan Morris

7. The Data Politics of State Property Regimes: A Case Study of the Dutch Central Real Estate Agency - Daan Bossuyt

Part III: The Data Politics of Real Estate and PropTech

8. From Location to Attention: Recoding Housing Markets for Digital Capitalism - Julien Migozzi

9. Zoning and Municipal Data Brokers: Toward a Political Economy of “Data Slop” - Scott Markley and Diana Drogaris

10. Mapping the Opaque Property Data of Tokenised Real Estate - Jillian (Lee) Crandall

Part IV: Data Activism and Housing

11. Organising Collectives, Collectivising Data: Working Together (on) Disparate Data to Resist Evictions in Ireland - Samuel Mutter, Danielle Hynes, Juliette Davret and Fiadh Tubridy

12. Inequitable Openness, Informal Networks, and Strategic Neutrality of Housing Data - Asya Aizman, Wonyoung So, Chenab Navalkha and Catherine D’Ignazio

13. Digital Content, Social Media and Tenant Data: Digital Organic Intellectuals and Housing Advocacy - Sophia Maalsen, Dallas Rogers and Peta Wolifson