Research

Publications #

1. Nelson, RJ., Warnier, M. and Verma, T. (2024). Ethically informed Urban Planning: measuring distributive spatial justice for neighbourhood acessibility. (forthcoming)
2. Nelson, RJ., Warnier, M. and Verma, T. (2024). Housing Inequalities: The Space-time Geography of Housing Policies. [link]
3. Nelson, RJ., Min Naing, K. and Beroche, H. (2023). Generative AI for Urban Governance.
4. Nelson, RJ., Warnier, M. and Verma, T. (2023). Conceptualising urban inequalities as a complex socio-technical phenomenon. [link]
5. Nelson, RJ. (2022). Social inclusion through the urban lens: a comparative analysis of neighbourhoods of residential racial homogeneity and heterogeneity in Cape Town, South Africa. [link to conference paper]
6. Nelson, RJ.(2021). The spatial and social logic of the Minibus Taxi network: how access may support social inclusion in Cape Town, South Africa. Applied Mobilities, 8:1, 1-25, DOI: 10.1080/23800127.2021.1926054
7. Nelson, RJ.(2019). The Conservative City: An analysis of the urban morphological development of Cape Town, South Africa with a specific focus on emergent spatial and mobility systems that generate the opportunity for multi-racial co-presence. [link]

Invited webinars #

Urban AI for Sustainable Cities, 2024
Hosted by:
Urban AI and Cornell Tech

Housing Inequalities, 2024
Hosted By:
Space Syntax Laboratory, University College London, UK

Insights into Emerging Technologies and Urban Inequalities, 2023
Hosted By:
UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape

Urban social inequalities: How can cities include people?, 2023
Hosted By:
IE University and All things Urban

Getting Density Right, 2022
Hosted By:
Young Urbanists in partnership with the Mayor of Cape Town

Social inclusion through the urban lens, 2022
Hosted By:
South African Centre for Cities

Conferences #

Urban Technology for Equity, 2024
Hosted by:
United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities

Reinventing the City, 2024
Hosted By:
AMS Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

African Transport Research Conference, 2024
Hosted By:
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

GISRUK, 2024
Hosted By:
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Benchmarking Spatial Justice in Policymaking, Planning and Design, 2023
Hosted By:
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands

Annual Meeting for the American Association of Geographers, 2023
Hosted By:
American Association of Geographers, Denver, United States

13th International Space Syntax Symposium, 2022
Hosted By:
Western Norway University, Norway

GISRUK, 2022
Hosted By:
University of Liverpool, UK

Fifth South African Cities Conference
Hosted By:
University of the Witwaterstrand, SA

Ocho Semana Conferencía, 2020
Hosted By:
Universidad Auntonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Masters in Research Conference, 2019
Hosted By:
Bartlett School of Architecture, UK

Workshops and Summer Schools #

Workshop in Inequalities across Scales of Space, Time and Domains, 2023
Hosted By:
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Oxford School in Economic Networks, 2023
Hosted By:
Oxford University, UK

Organised events #

Workshop on Envisioning the future of Cape Town, 2024
In collaboration with:
Young Urbanists and TU Delft Global

Generative AI for Urban Governance Symposium, 2023
In collaboration with:
Urban AI

Urban AI for Regenerative Cities, 2022
In collaboration with:
Urban AI, TU Delft, the MIT Senseable Cities Lab, AMS Institute

Invited Guest Lectures #

The Healthy and Inclusive City Minor - TU Delft
Lecture Title:
An African urban perspective on the healthy and inclusive city

Complex Systems Engineering Masters Course- TU Delft
Lecture Title:
Shaping Urban Futures: Navigating Socio-Technical Systems for Equitable Access

Reviews #

• Cities Journal
• Applied Mobilities
• ERC Consolidator Grant
• Oxford Abstracts
• Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie

Associations & affiliations: #

• South African Associate for the Local Government Information Unit [LGIU]
• Member of Young Urbanists South Africa [Young Urbanists]
• TU Delft Global Fellow [TU Global]
• Member of Urban AI [Urbanai]