🔍 Key insight #2:

At the regional scale, the story changes depending on how “urban” vs. “suburban” is defined.

🔍 Key insight #1:

Across Germany, cities grew faster than suburbs — regardless of how you measure the “urban–rural gradient.”

Together with colleagues from BiB, DLR, and the University of Leeds, we analyzed how populations shifted between cities, suburbs, and surrounding areas in Germany from 2011–2022.

We compared 3 urban gradient definitions, one of them purely based on built-up density:

📢 Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth?

New paper out now: Contrasting long-standing and novel urban gradient classifications

✨ First article from my thesis, published Open Access in Applied Geography!

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

Grateful to present at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conf. in Birmingham 👑

Felt at home w/ my urban-rural work thanks to great sessions on urban regions, mobility & COVID urban exodus 🥸

Thanks @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social, PopRG, @rgsibg.bsky.social for putting this together 🙏 #RGS-IBG2025

POV: you go to your local mall and run into a urban digital twin presentation!
The #Wiesbaden digital twin supposed to help in participatory planning processes. Curious to hear more. Check it out:
wiesbaden.virtualcitymap.de#/

‚How close is close?‘ Joe Shingleton using LLM to compare AirBnB claims of proximity /w actual distances. See how many listings say ‘close to Buckingham Palace’ all over the place 😁 #AGILE2025

Keen about urban growth analysis? Meet me at the 4pm poster session at #AGILE2025 in beautiful Dresden! #spatialanalysis #GIS

When winter feels the longest, we fortunately organize our own PhD-peer workshop at BiB! The ‘wall of compliments’ – where only pep talk is allowed – was a good balance to useful and critical feedback to my paper 🙏 Thanks @eliashofmann.bsky.social and everyone else! #phdlife #populationgeography

Yes, suburban areas have gained population, but for the average city, urban areas have considerably gained more in Germany recently! I was fortunate to present current work, comparing building-based to other urban-rural classifications at #PAA2024 in Columbus ➡️ tinyurl.com/suburbangrid