Category: density

Measuring Comparative Public Transport Accessibility for GB Cities

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While Greater London has a comprehensive transit network, this is not a fair representation of UK cities where underinvestment and privatisation has seen many bus, metro and rail networks stagnate in recent decades, falling well behind European and Asian peers. Improving public transport is an important aspect of addressing the UK’s high regional inequality and … Continue reading Measuring Comparative Public Transport Accessibility for GB Cities →

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accessibility, comparative urbanism, density, Great Britain, mapping, Public Transport, public-transportation, Software tools, sustainability, Transport, Transportation, travel

World Population Density Map Update with GHSL 2023

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The European Union JRC recently released a new 2023 update of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) data. This update has greatly improved the GHSL data, with a 10m scale built-up area dataset of the entire globe which has been used to create a 100m scale global population density layer. The level of detail for … Continue reading World Population Density Map Update with GHSL 2023 →

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City Planning, comparative urbanism, density, global cities, mapping, sustainability, Transport, urban form, visualisation, web mapping

Global Urban Constellations

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Geographers have long grappled with the complex and ever changing configurations of global urbanism. Many terms have been coined to describe new 20th and 21st century urban forms: conurbations (Geddes, 1915), multi-nuclei cities (Harris & Ultman, 1945), megalopolis (Gottman, 1961), world cities (Hall, 1966), desakota (McGee, 1991),  fractal cities (Batty & Longley, 1994), network cities (Batten, 1995), … Continue reading Global Urban Constellations →

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comparative urbanism, density, global cities, interactive mapping, urban form, visualisation

World Population Density Interactive Map

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A brilliant new dataset produced by the European Commission was recently released- the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL). This is the first time that detailed and comprehensive population density and built-up area for the world has been available as open data. As usual, my first thought was to make an interactive map, now online at- http://luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/ … Continue reading World Population Density Interactive Map →

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comparative urbanism, density, global, global cities, interactive mapping, sustainability, urban form, visualisation

Mapping the Densification of Cities in England & Wales using the 2011 Census

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UK cities have been undergoing significant change over the last decade, and the 2011 census data provides a great basis for tracking current urban structure. I’ve mapped population and employment density for all of England and Wales in 2011, using a 1km2 grid scale approach- The main themes that emerge are the dramatic intensification of London, high … Continue reading →

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agglomeration, Census 2011, density, Great Britain, planning, urban form, visualisation

An Urban Renaissance Achieved? Mapping a Decade of Densification in UK Cities

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It’s been 14 years since the landmark Urban Task Force report, which set the agenda for inner-city densification and brownfield regeneration in the UK. Furthermore we’ve seen significant economic and demographic change in the last decade that’s greatly impacted urban areas. We can now use the 2011 census data, mapped here on the LuminoCity GB … Continue reading →

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comparative urbanism, density, Great Britain, LuminoCity, planning, Population Change, UK Census 2011, urban form, visualisation

An Urban Renaissance Achieved? Mapping a Decade of Densification in UK Cities

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It’s been 14 years since the landmark Urban Task Force report, which set the agenda for inner-city densification and brownfield regeneration in the UK. Furthermore we’ve seen significant economic and demographic change in the last decade that’s greatly impacted urban areas. We can now use the 2011 census data, mapped here on the LuminoCity GB … Continue reading →

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comparative urbanism, density, Great Britain, LuminoCity, planning, Population Change, UK Census 2011, urban form, visualisation

Launching LuminoCity GB: Urban Form and Dynamics Explorer

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Our cities have been changing dramatically in recent years, with the intensification of urban centres, redevelopment of old industrial spaces, new demographic trends, and the pressures of a volatile global economy. The aim of the LuminoCity website, which launches in beta today, is to visualise urban form and dynamics to better understand how these trends … Continue reading →

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comparative urbanism, density, Great Britain, LuminoCity, urban form, visualisation

Launching LuminoCity GB: Urban Form and Dynamics Explorer

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Our cities have been changing dramatically in recent years, with the intensification of urban centres, redevelopment of old industrial spaces, new demographic trends, and the pressures of a volatile global economy. The aim of the LuminoCity website, which launches in beta today, is to visualise urban form and dynamics to better understand how these trends … Continue reading →

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comparative urbanism, density, Great Britain, LuminoCity, urban form, visualisation

World City Living and Working Densities: Poles Apart?

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One of the most recognisable visualisation techniques used by LSE Cities in the Urban Age publications is the 3D density map- an intuitive and engaging way to represent built form, and enable comparison of very different city environments across the globe. I’ve been producing 3D density maps in my own research for around five years … Continue reading →

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agglomeration, density, global cities, Hong Kong, london, LSE Cities, New York, visualisation

Copenhagen and Hong Kong: Mapping Global Leaders in Green Transport

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Cities that achieve social and economic success without high car use generally have three things in common: high densities, good urban design, and successful planning frameworks that integrate land-use with public transport, walking and cycling networks. I’ve been working on an LSE Cities project that investigated two leading global cities in green transport- Copenhagen and … Continue reading →

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Copenhagen, density, global cities, Hong Kong, LSE Cities, planning, sustainability, Transport

A Spatial Approach to Location Quotients

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The intent of this post is not simply to uncover where the highest density of people belonging to a particular ethnic group are, but rather to use the ‘location quotient’ (LQ) technique to compare the ethnic density in any one area to the overall ethnic density in Southwark, thus providing a relative insight into where […]

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data, density, Geography, GIS, KDE, Location Quotient, Representation, Southwark

Network Population Density for Southwark

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Using the excellent SANET extension for ArcGIS 9.3 I was able to take some of my data for Southwark that I had geocoded to address level, and estimate the population density using the OS Mastermap ITN product. The procedure is essentially a Kernel Density Estimation that takes place on a given network rather than across 2D space, this effectively controls […]

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density, Modeling, network, population, Representation, sanet, visualisation