Duncan Smith

@citygeographics.bsky.social

Urban geographer and Associate Professor in GIS & Visualisation at @casaucl.bsky.social. Blogs at https://citygeographics.org

I've updated the World City Population interactive map with the new UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025 data. The WUP 2025 has a new methodology resulting in substantial changes to population estimates for the world's largest urban agglomerations- luminocity3d.org/WorldCity/

World City Populations Interactive Map 1975-2050

An interactive map of city populations across the globe, exploring the changes between 1975 and 2050. Identify the world's fastest growing cities and regions, and urbanisation cycles of growth and dec...

luminocity3d.org

Last week I presented my doctoral study about digital participation in Jakarta at 4th Digital Geographies Conference in Lisbon. My presentation was included in Special Session 5 - Putting Information into Spatial Structures: Approaches in Localising Information and Knowledge.

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Important report on the planning system from @msingerhobbs.bsky.social Too many homes are being built that lack good transport links and lock in costly car dependence. We need more and better planning to guide development and ensure homes and infrastructure are built in the right places.

Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org · 2y ago

🧱 | NEW REPORT: Instead of stripping back planning regulations to 'get Britain building,' this new report from @msingerhobbs.bsky.social argues we need a stronger, better resourced, planning system.

NEW REPORTS | Restarting housebuilding🏘️ These new reports focus on private and public housebuilding, using local-level data from the last 80 years to analyse the reforms needed to meet the government's 1.5m housebuilding target. Read the full reports👇 www.centreforcities.org/housing/

The housing crisis - Centre for Cities

The UK doesn’t have a national housing crisis, but there is a housing crisis in our most unaffordable cities. How can homes be built where they are needed?

centreforcities.org

A short thread on the data used in the NEF report on car dependency by me and Emmet Kiberd, released yesterday. The report looks at the exact locations of all new homes in England, and shows that they are being built in increasingly car dependent areas. 1/4

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