Jim Gleeson
@geographyjim.bsky.social
Currently on leave from my job as housing numbers person at the Greater London Authority. Opinions here only my own, if that. data.london.gov.uk/housing/
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Safe travels to Nakadai Tatsuya (1932-2025), the great, great Japanese actor of both film and stage, who disappeared into every role he played. It's hard to imagine any story of Japanese cinema without him.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Safe travels to Nakadai Tatsuya (1932-2025), the great, great Japanese actor of both film and stage, who disappeared into every role he played. It's hard to imagine any story of Japanese cinema without him.
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Japanese twitter taking the Suica penguin news very normally
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Japanese twitter taking the Suica penguin news very normally
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📢Where and How to Build 1.5 million homes in Britain?
New research report + micro-neighbourhood level mapping tool with @nikdatta.bsky.social uses 20 billion housing searches to map demand
Map wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk
Research report + 350 customised LA reports: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
New research report + micro-neighbourhood level mapping tool with @nikdatta.bsky.social uses 20 billion housing searches to map demand
Map wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk
Research report + 350 customised LA reports: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
📢Where and How to Build 1.5 million homes in Britain?
New research report + micro-neighbourhood level mapping tool with @nikdatta.bsky.social uses 20 billion housing searches to map demand
Map wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk
Research report + 350 customised LA reports: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
New research report + micro-neighbourhood level mapping tool with @nikdatta.bsky.social uses 20 billion housing searches to map demand
Map wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk
Research report + 350 customised LA reports: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
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'The idea that X (Twitter) is some kind of counterpoint to consensus or a place for any kind of useful discourse or a spot to hang out in which is to be challenged healthily, is a complete nonsense' via @unamullally.bsky.social
That's why we are leavin X en masse
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
That's why we are leavin X en masse
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Una Mullally: Media outlets need to break ties with X
The presence of media outlets on X does not have a diluting effect on the concentration of misinformation on the platform. If it did, then we wouldn’t be where we are
www.irishtimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
'The idea that X (Twitter) is some kind of counterpoint to consensus or a place for any kind of useful discourse or a spot to hang out in which is to be challenged healthily, is a complete nonsense' via @unamullally.bsky.social
That's why we are leavin X en masse
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
That's why we are leavin X en masse
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Roll up! Excited to be hosting a new kleptoscope at London's Frontline Club, with Sue Hawley, of @spotlightcorruption.org, Jess Garland of @electoralreform.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social. We'll be talking about how to save democracy from big money.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...
Kleptoscope: Big Money in Little Britain
How to protect our democracy?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Roll up! Excited to be hosting a new kleptoscope at London's Frontline Club, with Sue Hawley, of @spotlightcorruption.org, Jess Garland of @electoralreform.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social. We'll be talking about how to save democracy from big money.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...
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Nothing like a nice long flight for catching up on #30DayMapChallenge 🤪.
Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍
Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Nothing like a nice long flight for catching up on #30DayMapChallenge 🤪.
Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍
Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍
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Which London boroughs are the best for cycling? We’ve been working on developing new open data indicators of cycle network quality-
citygeographics.org/2025/11/07/d...
citygeographics.org/2025/11/07/d...
Improving Indicators of Urban Cycle Network Quality: a Case Study of London Boroughs
Increasing levels of cycling is a key part of the transport strategies of many global cities with the potential for significant health and sustainability benefits. Many urban cycle networks are how…
citygeographics.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Which London boroughs are the best for cycling? We’ve been working on developing new open data indicators of cycle network quality-
citygeographics.org/2025/11/07/d...
citygeographics.org/2025/11/07/d...
There wouldn't be much demand for this if the planning system worked as intended, with plans setting out clear criteria and applications being objectively assessed against them. But in reality some plan policies are vague/subjective and some decision makers take the number of objections into account
‘A new service called Objector is offering “policy-backed objections in minutes” to people who are upset about planning applications near their homes.’
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There wouldn't be much demand for this if the planning system worked as intended, with plans setting out clear criteria and applications being objectively assessed against them. But in reality some plan policies are vague/subjective and some decision makers take the number of objections into account
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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"London is not a bad place to live, and does a lot better on measures such as crime than many of the populist right ... would argue. However, as so often, housing costs are a pervasive drag on liveability, pushing people into poverty, hobbling aspiration and jeopardising the UK’s prosperity."
I write about the new Index of Multiple Deprivation, and why London has generally good scores on education, health, crime and employment, but still has eight boroughs numbered among the most deprived 20% districts in England.
www.onlondon.co.uk/richard-brow...
www.onlondon.co.uk/richard-brow...
Richard Brown: London's distinctive patterns of deprivation
The government's new Index of Multiple Deprivation has revealed concealed hardships in the capital, despite some distortions and daft debates
www.onlondon.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"London is not a bad place to live, and does a lot better on measures such as crime than many of the populist right ... would argue. However, as so often, housing costs are a pervasive drag on liveability, pushing people into poverty, hobbling aspiration and jeopardising the UK’s prosperity."
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There have been fewer than 1,000 shooting victims in New York City over the last 12 months. That's the first time time below 1,000 since April 2020 and a 56% drop since the height of the surge in 2020/2021.
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
There have been fewer than 1,000 shooting victims in New York City over the last 12 months. That's the first time time below 1,000 since April 2020 and a 56% drop since the height of the surge in 2020/2021.
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Say what you like about Rachel Reeves, she has done wonderful things for tenants' rights awareness
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Say what you like about Rachel Reeves, she has done wonderful things for tenants' rights awareness
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What to see how I turned thousands of live buses into charts like this? And what it all means for mayors wanting to integrate their public transport systems?
Come to see me talk about all this and more to our event at 1pm: www.centreforcities.org/event/report...
Come to see me talk about all this and more to our event at 1pm: www.centreforcities.org/event/report...
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
What to see how I turned thousands of live buses into charts like this? And what it all means for mayors wanting to integrate their public transport systems?
Come to see me talk about all this and more to our event at 1pm: www.centreforcities.org/event/report...
Come to see me talk about all this and more to our event at 1pm: www.centreforcities.org/event/report...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 : Points. Map of Airbnb listings by municipality and incidence rate 🗺️ in France | Data: 928k geolocations of listings scraped by the Collectif National des Habitants Permanents (CNHP) and housing units number by @insee.fr
#Airbnb #housing
#Airbnb #housing
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 : Points. Map of Airbnb listings by municipality and incidence rate 🗺️ in France | Data: 928k geolocations of listings scraped by the Collectif National des Habitants Permanents (CNHP) and housing units number by @insee.fr
#Airbnb #housing
#Airbnb #housing
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If you saw this chart in isolation it would be incredibly hard not to conclude that being connected to nature sucks www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If you saw this chart in isolation it would be incredibly hard not to conclude that being connected to nature sucks www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Niche blog post #2: what economic research says about the affordability impacts of building housing jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/e...
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Niche blog post #2: what economic research says about the affordability impacts of building housing jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/e...
Niche blog post #1: what stamp duty statistics say about how many home purchases are for "additional" dwellings rather than primary homes jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
Additional property purchases and ‘surplus’ housing
The Green Alliance recently hosted a webinar on whether it’s possible to build to build 1.5 million homes (the UK government target for this parliament) without accelerating the climate crisi…
jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Niche blog post #1: what stamp duty statistics say about how many home purchases are for "additional" dwellings rather than primary homes jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...
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This week construction started on the next phase of Newham's
Royal Dock Corridor - in partnership with the GLA.
🚲Protected bike lanes
🚗Safer speeds
☔️🌿Planting & SuDS
🚶Safer crossings & pedestrian connectivity
👏 @plaistovian.bsky.social & team
Royal Dock Corridor - in partnership with the GLA.
🚲Protected bike lanes
🚗Safer speeds
☔️🌿Planting & SuDS
🚶Safer crossings & pedestrian connectivity
👏 @plaistovian.bsky.social & team
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This week construction started on the next phase of Newham's
Royal Dock Corridor - in partnership with the GLA.
🚲Protected bike lanes
🚗Safer speeds
☔️🌿Planting & SuDS
🚶Safer crossings & pedestrian connectivity
👏 @plaistovian.bsky.social & team
Royal Dock Corridor - in partnership with the GLA.
🚲Protected bike lanes
🚗Safer speeds
☔️🌿Planting & SuDS
🚶Safer crossings & pedestrian connectivity
👏 @plaistovian.bsky.social & team
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CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
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On the subject of how many households are "net recipients", this new chart of ONS data suggests that indirect taxes have plummeted. But I suspect this is mostly due to this survey missing more and more spending each year - rendering any related time series fairly useless.
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
On the subject of how many households are "net recipients", this new chart of ONS data suggests that indirect taxes have plummeted. But I suspect this is mostly due to this survey missing more and more spending each year - rendering any related time series fairly useless.
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Seeing this construction project was mind blowing:
in Copenhagen, multiple apartment buildings are being built INDOORS and on-site, in a single “Site Cover” temporary shelter.
in Copenhagen, multiple apartment buildings are being built INDOORS and on-site, in a single “Site Cover” temporary shelter.
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Seeing this construction project was mind blowing:
in Copenhagen, multiple apartment buildings are being built INDOORS and on-site, in a single “Site Cover” temporary shelter.
in Copenhagen, multiple apartment buildings are being built INDOORS and on-site, in a single “Site Cover” temporary shelter.
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Important context from @sustainabletall.bsky.social.
There is no point in talking about embodied emissions in concrete towers without considering the counterfactual, holistically.
There is no point in talking about embodied emissions in concrete towers without considering the counterfactual, holistically.
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Important context from @sustainabletall.bsky.social.
There is no point in talking about embodied emissions in concrete towers without considering the counterfactual, holistically.
There is no point in talking about embodied emissions in concrete towers without considering the counterfactual, holistically.
A key thing that these "nature deserts" analyses often fail to control for is the existence of cities.
In this case, first-time buyers tend to be younger, younger people tend to live in cities, cities have less green space per capita, so "first-time buyers are being forced into nature deserts".
In this case, first-time buyers tend to be younger, younger people tend to live in cities, cities have less green space per capita, so "first-time buyers are being forced into nature deserts".
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A key thing that these "nature deserts" analyses often fail to control for is the existence of cities.
In this case, first-time buyers tend to be younger, younger people tend to live in cities, cities have less green space per capita, so "first-time buyers are being forced into nature deserts".
In this case, first-time buyers tend to be younger, younger people tend to live in cities, cities have less green space per capita, so "first-time buyers are being forced into nature deserts".