Alan Wiig is an urban geographer by training who teaches in Urban Planning and Community Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His scholarly research examines global infrastructure, smart cities, and the politics of large-scale urban development in cities across the North Atlantic. Recent work has been supported by the Urban Studies Foundation and the Manchester Urban Institute at the University of Manchester. For the better part of a decade he has been looking closely at the infrastructure of platform urbanism, or what William Gibson called 'the bones of cyberspace.'

He also maintains an occasional newsletter at: https://buttondown.email/city+county/

Recent academic publications include:

Wiig, A. and M. Masucci. (2021). Digital infrastructures, services, and spaces: The geography of platform urbanism. Urban platforms and the future city: Transformations in infrastructure, governance, knowledge, and everyday life. Editors: Mike Hodson, Julia Kasmire, Andrew McMeekin, John Stehlin and Kevin Ward. New York City: Routledge.

Masucci, M., H. Pearsall, and A. Wiig. (2020). The Smart City Conundrum for Social Justice: Youth Perspectives on Digital Technologies and Urban Transformations. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110 (2), p. 476–484.

Wiig, A. and J. Silver. (2019). Turbulent presents, precarious futures: The urbanization of global infrastructure. Regional Studies. 53(6), p. 912-923.