David Gibbs
dcgibbs.bsky.social
David Gibbs
@dcgibbs.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, University of Hull. Interested in economy-environment relations, local & regional development, as well as cycling and Norwich City. Bass player with The Renegades and Red Sky Ukes.
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Centre for Cities has published new data on English housebuilding from 1945 to 2022 🏘️

This is the first time sub-regional housebuilding data has been made available in digital form 💻

Find out more and access the data 👇
Centre for Cities has published new data on English housebuilding from 1945 to 2022 - Centre for Cities
Centre for Cities have published local-level housebuilding data back to 1945. This blog explains how we got the data and how you can access.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The attack on immigrants — which I don't think Trump can moderate — will make America poorer as well as uglier paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-deport...
The Deportation Nightmare Begins
Whatever Trump intends, this will spiral out of control
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌍

'The geographies of #veganism: Exploring the complex entanglements of places, plants, peoples, and profits through #vegan #food practices' by Agatha Herman & Kirstie O’Neill

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The geographies of veganism: Exploring the complex entanglements of places, plants, peoples, and profits through vegan food practices - Agatha Herman, Kirstie O’Neill, 2025
The increasing visibility of veganism and plant-based eating makes it timely for environmental geographers to critically engage with these unfolding debates. In...
journals.sagepub.com
January 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being."

Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM