Luis F. ALVAREZ LEÓN

Selected Publications

• Books:

  Alvarez León, L.F. (May 2024). The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism. University of California Press.
  URL: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389328/the-map-in-the-machine

   

• Peer-reviewed articles:

  25. Alvarez León, L.F. (2024). "AI and Global Climate Change in Geographic Perspective". Geo: Geography and Environment. 11(1), e00134.
  SSCI Journal Impact Factor: 2.2 (2023); H Index: 18 (2023

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.134

• 24. Bennett, M., Gleason, C., Tellman, B., Alvarez León, L.F., Friedrich, H.K., Ovenmhada, U. & Mathews, A. (2024). "Bringing satellites down to Earth: Six Steps to More Ethical Remote Sensing". Global Environmental Change Advances 2, 100003.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecadv.2023.100003

• 23. Rosen, J., & Alvarez León, L.F. (2023). "Signaling Hinterlands and the Spatial Networks of Digital Capitalism". Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-13.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2249974

• 22. Rosen, J. & Alvarez León, L.F. (2022). "The Digital Growth Machine: Urban Change and the Ideology of Technology". Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2052008

• 21. Alvarez León, L.F. & Aoyama, Y. (2022). "Industry Emergence and Market Capture: The Rise of Autonomous Vehicles". Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121661

• 20. Bennett, M., Chen, K.J., Alvarez León, L.F. & Gleason, C.J. (2022). "The politics of pixels: A review and agenda for critical remote sensing". January 2022. Progress in Human Geography.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221074691

• 19. Alvarez León, L.F. (2021). "Artificial Intelligence and the Capitalist Space Economy". Space and Polity, 25(2), 220-236.

  DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13562576.2021.1985852

• 18. Aoyama, Y. & Alvarez León, L.F. (2021). "Urban Governance and Autonomous Vehicles". Cities. The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 119(2021), 1-10.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103410

• 17. Alvarez León, L.F. (2021). "Digital trade and the remaking of the North American regional economy". Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, Issue 50 - Summer 2021. 59-69.

  URL: https://investigacionesregionales.org/en/article/digital-trade-and-the-r... american-regional-economy/

• 16. Alvarez León, L.F. & Rosen, J. (2020). "Technology as Ideology in Urban Governance". Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(2), 497-506.
  
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1660139

  Republished as

  Alvarez León, L.F. & Rosen, J. (2021). "Technology as Ideology in Urban Governance". In L. Bian (Ed.), Smart Spaces and Places. Routledge.
  URL: https://www.routledge.com/Smart-Spaces-and-Places/Bian/p/book/9780367703547

• 15. Alvarez León, L.F. & Quinn, S. (2019). "Street-level imagery". Peer-reviewed article for Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.

  DOI: https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/street-level-imagery

• 14. Tarr, A. & Alvarez León, L.F. (2019). "Will Review for Points: The Unpaid Affective Labor of Place-making for Google's Local Guides". Feminist Review, 123 (1). 89-105.
  
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919879763