Research
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Categorisation of neighbourhoods using k-means clustering algorithm
Publications #
- Nelson, RJ., Warnier, M. and Verma, T. (2025). MAP: Mapping Accessibility for Ethically Informed Urban Planning. (under review)
- Nelson, RJ., Warnier, M. and Verma, T. (2025). Ethically informed Urban Planning: measuring distributive spatial justice for neighbourhood acessibility. (under review)
- Nelson, RJ., Pearce, B; Warnier, M. and Verma, T. (2025). Incorporating equity into accessibility evaluations of transport scenarios in Cape Town. (in preperation)
- Nelson, RJ., Warnier, M. and Verma, T. (2024). Housing Inequalities: The Space-time Geography of Housing Policies. [link]
- Nelson, RJ., Min Naing, K. and Beroche, H. (2023). Generative AI for Urban Governance.
- Nelson, RJ., Warnier, M. and Verma, T. (2023). Conceptualising urban inequalities as a complex socio-technical phenomenon. [link]
- 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]
- 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
- 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 ConferencĂa, 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
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]
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