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:
30. Alvarez León, L.F., Aoyama, Y. & Payne, G. (2026). "Supplier Network Geographies of the Electric and Autonomous Vehicle (EAV) Industry". Progress in Economic Geography, 4(1), 100072.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2026.100072
29. Roth, R.E., Kelly, M., Baldrica-Franklin, G., Rose, C., Steinberg, J., & Alvarez León, L.F. (2026). "Designing Maps in News Stories: A Longitudinal Visual Content Analysis of Cartographic Design in U.S. Data Journalism". Cartographic Perspectives. Forthcoming.
Impact factor: 0.64 (2025); H Index: 19 (2025)
28. Rosen, J., & Alvarez León, L.F. (2025). "The variegated hinterlands of the digital growth machine". Dialogues in Human Geography.
Impact factor: 9.6 (2025); H Index: 55 (2025)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251398554
27. Alvarez León, L.F. (2024). "The Geospatial Information Market". Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (2024 Edition), John P. Wilson (Ed.). University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22224/gistbok/2024.1.18
26. Alvarez León, L.F. & Rosen, J. (2024). "Land, Reconfigured: Defying the Laws of Physics, Upholding the Rules of the Market". In H. Faxon & D. Fields (Eds.) Environmental Planning D: Society and Space, 42(4), 449-589. Special Issue on Digital Transformations in Global Land, Housing and Property.
SSCI Journal Impact Factor: 2.9 (2024); H Index: 124 (2024) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241257115
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