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Geographical perspectivesThe role of spatial thinking and geovisualisation
in understanding urban issues
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick, 24th January 2018
Benjamin Hennig | [email protected] | www.viewsoftheworld.net
Urban World(s)
"Never before has a critical spatial
perspective been so widespread, so
focused on cities and urban life, and so
generative of new ideas about economics,
politics, culture, and social change more
generally.”Ed Soja (2011). "Beyond Postmetropolis.”
Urban Geography 32(4), 451-469, quote from p. 451.
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Urban Histories
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
“Reading” the City
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Urban Identities
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Bund Promenade
Urban Identities
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Transformation
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Future?“The Shanghai of today is just the beginning. It is preparedto be a grand city, just waitingfor the development of China. And the time is ripe.“(Paul Goldman, 1900)
Defining Cities
What is the largest city in the
world?
Chongqing (30/8 million)
Shanghai (23/35 million)
Tokyo (13/37 million)
…
• Population?
• Density?
• Administrative Area?
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Build-up area
Pudong
Greater Shanghai
Megacity Rhein-Ruhr?
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Northern Powerhouse?
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
System of Cities
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Central Places to World Cities
Drawn by George van Otten and Dennis Bellafiore (2017) S. Vinciguerra, P.J. Taylor, M. Hoyler and K. Pain (2010)
City Systems
Urban Zone Models to Smart Cities
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
R. Pasi (2017)S. Vinciguerra, P.J. Taylor, M. Hoyler and K. Pain (2010)
The Smart Solution to Everything?
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
http://www.smartcityresearch.com
An Urban World
City Growth
City Living
Urban Slums
Internet use
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Beyond the city
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Why Geography Matters
“A decade into the 21st century, our world is
more interconnected than ever before. Yet even
as the global community becomes increasingly
more complex and competitive, the world is
changing at a rapid pace.”
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Earth at Night: An image of inequality
Self-similarity of space
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Global Poverty
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Poverty in Europe
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Regional Poverty in Europe
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Poverty in London
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
A Social Atlas of London
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
A Social Atlas of London
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
A Social Atlas of London
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Communication and Storytelling
Benjamin Hennig
IM927 Digital Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Warwick
24th January 2018
Jorg Sieweke
Thank you for listening!
„Future is something which you have to go through.
She is constantly tired. Little wonder, for within a relatively short time Mrs. Wang and her
husband have to cope with things, for which in Europe a number of generations were
necessary: the secular transition from land to town, from forced economy post-industrial
self-realization, from the extended family to urban individualism. „Be entrepreneurs!“
said the party and dismissed its people into the future with only an emergency ration.
Now it is free. Free of work, free of pay and free to look for their own living and shelter.
What lasted a hundred years in Europe has to be achieved by Mrs. Wang and her family
within one generation. That is hard work.“
(Die Tageszeitung, 11.08.2000/Supplement Le Mode diplomatique, p.7)
Beyond the data…
