Ayona DattaAyona Datta is Professor in Urban Geography in University College London, UK. Her research interests are in gender citizenship, urban futures and smart cities in the global South. In particular, she is interested in how cities seek to transform themslves through utopian urban visions of the future and their impacts on everyday social, material and gendered geographies. She is author of The Illegal City: Space, law and gender in a Delhi squatter set_x0002_tlement (2012), co-editor of Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connec_x0002_tions (2011) and Mega-Urbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias (2016). Ayona is co-editor of Urban Geography journal, on the Trustees’ Board of the IJURR Foundation and on the editorial boards of the journals Antipode, Digital Geography and Society and EPD: Society and Space. For her contributions to understanding of smart cities through fieldwork she received the Busk Medal from Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in 2019. Read More Read Less