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  • With Rbanism, we are entering the #30DayMapChallenge as a community and challenging ourselves to produce all maps using R. Our maps will be posted on Instagram (@rbanism_), BlueSky (@rbanism.bsky.social) and on our website.

Current projects

  • ERC Starting Grant SEGUE: modelling urban economic segregation in cities of the Netherlands. This project combines systematic literature reviews, longitudinal analysis of empirical microdata and generative agent-based modelling to address the evolution and causal relationships between economic segregation and economic inequality in cities.
  • Rbanism: empowering urbanism researchers, students, educators and practitioners to use open-source software and related open-science practices effectively and with confidence. This community project raises awareness, stimulates engagement and builds capacity by demonstrating the benefits of reproducibility, automation and scalability for urbanism research, education and practice. Our latest newsletter is out.

Future trainings

  • The next edition of the Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism workshop will take place on Monday, February 10th, and Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. More information about the content and registration will follow here.

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Recent publications

  • September 2024 (Cottineau-Mugadza, 2024): In this working paper, I examine how economic inequality and economic segregation are connected theoretically and empirically. I do so by systematically analyzing the direction of causality, causal pathways and temporal relationship reflected by a multidisciplinary and multilingual literature. I conclude that variations in economic segregation follow differences in economic inequality in the short term and that reverse causality is more probable in the longer term, that the housing market is the most frequent mediator between economic inequality and economic segregation and that the current scholarship on the topic is far from comparable, although compatible definitions and measurements of inequality and segregation are rising.
  • September 2024 (Janssen et al., 2024): In this article, we analyse the spillover effects of contemporary state-led gentrification in Rotterdam. More specifically, we analyse the changing socioeconomic characteristics of in-movers and the changing origin locations of residential moves, concluding that Rotterdam increasingly attracts middle- to high-income households from other core cities in the Netherlands while intra-urban moves by economically vulnerable residents are declining, especially toward and within gentrifying neighborhoods.
  • July 2024 (Sarkar et al., 2024): In this editorial, we present a brief critical review of the field of urban inequalities and a summary of the special issue. In particular, we propose to organise knowledge on the measurement of spatial and geographic inequalities, by encoding urban geography into three dimensions: inequalities by location (city size, scale, form), inequalities by movement (transport networks, mobility, accessibility) and inequalities by larger infrastructural systems (housing stock, water, Internet) and their dynamics, management and access.
  • June 2024 (Cottineau-Mugadza et al., 2024): In this working paper, we propose a set of guidelines and tools to design and automate several steps of systematic literature reviews, so that urbanists with limited experience in SLR can concentrate on the tasks of reading, understanding and synthetizing the knowledge collected. We operationalise our guidelines with recent examples from the field of urbanism and reusable snippets of R code.

References

Cottineau-Mugadza, C. (2024). Economic inequality and economic segregation: A systematic review of causal pathways. SocArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qxket
Cottineau-Mugadza, C., Forgaci, C., Janssen, K. M. J., Li, B., Zhang, S., & Zhang, X. (2024). Guidelines and open-source toolbox for systematic literature reviews in the field of urbanism. SocArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/w5b8v
Janssen, K. M. J., Cottineau-Mugadza, C., Kleinhans, R., & Bueren, E. van. (2024). Spatial dynamics of incoming movers and the state-led gentrification process: The case of rotterdam. Population, Space and Place, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2851
Sarkar, S., Cottineau-Mugadza, C., & Wolf, L. J. (2024). Spatial inequalities and cities: A review. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083241263422

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