It’s been long overdue (~1 month!) but I presented my initial findings in Social Media Geopolitics session at #AAG2025 in Detroit last month—all thanks to @casaucl.bsky.social Doctoral Student Conference Fund. My study revolves on digital participation in Jakarta, using government-app called Qlue.

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.

In the next Economic Geography Network Seminar, Deivi Norberg (UCL/QMUL) shares her research into how small businesses have used community organising to resist rising commercial rents & displacement.

🗓️ 17:00, Mon 09 December
📍 CASA Seminar Room 106/107

www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...

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/

REVEALED: Just 2,500 farms own a QUARTER of the farmland in England

Startling new stats I obtained from DEFRA & shared with @mirror.co.uk show how unequal land ownership is in this country

Large landowners must pay their fair share of tax
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www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Today I ventured south to Glen Shee, in search of hilltop sunshine. Turns out my choice of hill, Creag Leacach, was right on the dividing line between fog and sun. This made for spectacular cloudscapes throughout the day, changing every few minutes 🙂

We have a new promo for the MSc Connected Enivonments :) @casaucl.bsky.social youtu.be/JrhGCrtiXNw?... #IoT #MSc #UCL #Making #Arduino #STEM #Urban #3DPrinting #AI #TheBartlett

Bits #4K Review – @billhuntbits.bsky.social reviews Akira Kurosawa’s legendary epic SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) in a lovely new #UltraHD release from @criterion.bsky.social !
thedigitalbits.com/item/seven-s...

Thanks to @frogo.bsky.social for this! go.bsky.app/Bue7EXj

🚀 Job Alert!!! 🚀 The first in a series of long term posts within the SDRUK Geographic Data Service which will launch next year -this one is based in London - https://buff.ly/4fSyChU and builds on the work that we have done over the past ten years as part of the CDRC.

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

Super useful list of planning and housing accounts to follow on bluesky by @barneystringer.bsky.social -

Glad to see this published! @citygeographics.bsky.social’s working paper inspired our @neweconomics.bsky.social analysis and report on car dependency, also released today 👏🏼

Highlights from the @neweconomics.bsky.social report on car dependency. The report shows that new homes in England are increasingly located in car dependent areas with poor transport infrastructure. The triangle in the figure indicates car dependency of median home from each period. 1/6

New open access paper - can we develop London's Green Belt sustainably to tackle the housing crisis? Analysis using EPC and travel sustainability data -
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @casaucl.bsky.social