Urban indicators and dashboards: epistemology, contradictions and power/knowledge

The three commentaries to our paper provide some interesting complementarities to our and we would like to thank the authors for taking the time to read and on our work. Although coming from quite different perspectives, Mike Batty an urban modeller and planner and Matt Wilson as a critical geographical information (GIS) theorist, largely support our concerns around urban indicator and dashboard : that they have certain technical and epistemological shortcomings and often used to support particular interests. Whilst Batty cautions as to how indicators dashboard might be used, reframed technically and supplemented by more sophisticated , Wilson is more concerned with how such projects are framed socially economically as tools of capital accumulation. Neither provide analysis with which particularly disagree. In contrast, Meg Holden and Sara Moreno Pires, while they many of the issues we discuss, provide a critique of our analysis and a of indicator and dashboards as presently conceived and practised. Their commentary to us how those who have vested a lot of time and effort into and dashboard projects might misread and react to our argument, defending projects without fully grasping our critique and the alternative epistemology we , or our own position within the indicator and dashboard landscape. The rest this response, therefore, concentrates on their commentary.