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🚨 New Article Alert! 🚨Excited that I published my first paper, emphasizing that informal settlements and sprawl are not the same for #secondarycities in Africa @SustainableCit8. Together with @Michiel_Daams and @MonikaKuffer 😊 ➡️🧵
➡️OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.1…
ALT Screenshot of the paper head, including abstract.
📢 Reminder: Noch 1 Woche bis zur Deadline! Reicht eure Beiträge für meine Session bei der DGD-Tagung 2025 in Wiesbaden ein: "Geodaten: Nutzen und Potenzial für amtliche Statistik & Survey-Methodik" Deadline: 20.12. Call for Papers hier tinyurl.com/dgdgeo #spatialdata
Over COP29, the World Bank published more results from our Urban Climate Finance analysis for 2019-2022.
Avg. annual climate finance to urban areas and cities has gone up 30% since our last analysis.
More results in this blog: wrld.bg/BfRx50Ub7Ox
This ESA post provides a nice overview of how our research challenges some common assumptions about informal settlements in rapidly growing cities, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. With @Michiel_Daams and
@MonikaKuffer @bib_bund
What’s the trade-off between housing people and preserving green space?
Melanie Krause presents interesting findings at #ERSA2024.
Eg., in high-income countries more residents don’t mean less green space ➡️ are cities able to densify and preserve by building up? #urbangrowth
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The UN Statistical Commission has adopted a new definition of urban areas, developed by @DijkstraLewis in collaboration with a raft of IOs.
This new definition improves the measurement & comparison of urban and rural phenomena, facilitating analysis and policy-making.
#ERSA2024
3/4 We found that the impact varies widely across different cities. Informal settlements show 12.8% lower network connectivity in pooled results, indicating sprawl in some cities. 🏘️➡️🛣️❓Yet, in important secondary cities including Arusha and Dodoma, this effect does not show.
ALT a map showing the connectivity results for 7 cities.
4/4 Informality isn't always linked to sprawl. And of course, formal development plays a large role in sprawl globally. This complexity suggests more tailored interventions are needed for sustainable urban development. 🏗️🌿 #UrbanGrowth #sprawl #remotesensing
This.
Love the planet…?
…allow more people to live in walkable, transit rich neighborhoods.
#EarthDay2024 🌎
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The kin' of Family #Demography 👑 Congrats to @PolizzAn for winning the best @PopAssocAmerica poster prize #PAA2024 👏🏆
@LeverhulmeTrust
ALT Antonino and Bettina standing in front of their poster
Yes, suburban areas have gained population, but depending on what’s “#urban”, urban areas have considerably gained more in Germany! Fortunate to present current work, comparing building-based to other urban-rural classifications at #PAA2024 in Columbus ➡️ tinyurl.com/suburbangrid
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Over the last 6 decades, Sub-Saharan #Africa has been among the world’s fastest urbanizing regions. By 2050, the population residing in SSA's #urban centers is projected to exceed 1.26 billion, surpassing today's figures by more than 2.5 times. This accelerated urban growth poses significant implications for the development of a region where over 1/3 of the population lives in extreme #poverty.
To fill the gaps on accurate information regarding urban settlements in Africa and overcome differences in official definitions of urban areas, this #research uses digitized maps of buildings footprints from high-resolution satellite imagery. The results reveal that #urbanization is usually higher than official data suggest, and that a doubling of an urban area’s population is associated with a more than doubling of its built-up area.
Learn more in this @WorldBank Policy Research Working Paper by Pierre-Philippe Combes, Clément Gorin, Shohei Nakamura, Mark Roberts and Benjamin Stewart: bit.ly/4b3ZJVs
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Excited to finally see our tool online! You can now explore 30 years of #Migration history between world regions, countries, and within #Germany on our @bib_bund website. 🌏
Shout out to @nikolasander, @tamilwhy, and @vis_kom for the great team work. 💪
1/2 Today, on #MigrantsDay, we are excited to launch the 'Global Flow of People 2.0'. The interactive & easy-to-use #tool allows you to explore patterns & trends in (global) migration over time. Try it out & browse through 30 yrs of #migration history.
👉 bib.bund.de/globalflows
Thanks (!) to @gesis_org, @StefanJuenger for organizing a super rich workshop on „Earth Observation Data in the Social Sciences“. How to use remote sensing data to learn about population growth in urban and suburban areas? I presented upcoming work, showcasing this in Germany.
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Call for papers!
2nd Annual @WorldBank Conference on Transport Economics, Washington, DC, March 22, 2024.
Young researchers are invited to submit papers by December 15, 2023.
Details here: worldbank.org/en/events/2023…
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Beim 91. ZFWiss heißt es „Endlich Aufbruch!“ U.a. mit @CK_Spiess und @H_Kohpeiss. Es geht um die affektierte Gesellschaft, den Begriff Polarisierung und um Wege der Einigung. An den Thementischen für euch: @PDmedien & @Moreincommon_. Kostenlose Anmeldung: zfwiss.eventbrite.de/
Please apply and become my colleague😊
#sciencejobs #jobalert
We look forward to strengthening our team on spatial mobility over the life course in #Wiesbaden:
▶️ Researcher (Postdoc) in the reserach area #migration and #mobilty
▶️ Application deadline: 25.09.
Information & application 👇
bib.bund.de/EN/Institute/Job…
ALT The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden is looking for a Researcher (Postdoc) (f/m/d) for the research area „Migration and Mobility“ Application deadline: 25.09.2023 | Pay grade: E14 TVöD Bund Working hours: 100% | Fixed term for 48 months | Ref. Number 208/23
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This a little birthday gift to appreciate what #OSM has done for me! Thank you @openstreetmap and let's grow old together😆
OSM Turned 19 - See How It Transformed Me:
medium.com/@hawa.adinani/osm…
#happy19birthdayOSM #OSM19
