Research


Books

Reades, J. and Crookston M. (2021), Why Face-to-Face Still Matters: the Role of Cities in a Post-Pandemic World, Bristol University Press, 10.2307/j.ctv1j55h3r.

Papers

2025

Reades, J., Hu, Y., Tranos, E. and Delmelle, E (2025) ‘The city as text’. Nature Cities 2, 794–800, 10.1038/s44284-025-00314-x.

Sheppard, L., Reades, J., Freeman, R.P.J. (2025) ‘Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geography, 10.1111/tran.12745.

Sheppard, L., Reades, J. (2025) ‘Finding the female geographers: The gendered dynamics of uk geography PhD study’. Professional Geographer, 10.1080/00330124.2025.2461002.

2024

Buyuklieva, B., Bevilacqua, I., Dennett, A., Reades, J., Hubbard, P. (2024) ‘Life for Rent: Evolving Residential Infrastructure in London and the Rise of Built-to-Rent’. Urban Studies, 10.1177/00420980241277684.

2023

Hubbard, P., Reades, J., Walter, H., Preston, C. (2023) ‘Shrinking homes? The geographies of small domestic properties in London, 2010–2021’. Environment & Planning B, 10.1177/23998083231208732.

Chng, I. and Reades, J. and Hubbard, P. (2023) ‘Planning deregulation and the production of inadequate living conditions: permitted development, toxicity & amenity in London’. Environment & Planning A, 10.1177/0308518X231209982.

Reades, J. and Williams, J. (2023) ‘Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings’, Programming Historian. 10.46430/phen0111.

Sheppard, L., Reades, J. and Freeman, R.J. (2023) ‘Gendering and diversifying the research pipline: A quantitative feminist geographical approach to gender in higher education’, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 10.1080/24694452.2022.2160302.

2022

Reades, J. and Lees, L., Hubbard, P. and Lansley, G. (2022) ‘Quantifying state-led gentrification in London: Using linked consumer and administrative records to track displacement from council estates’, Environment & Planning A, 10.1177/0308518X221135610.

Pettit, C.J., Zarpelon S., Lock, O., Ng, M., and Reades, J. (2022). “Big Data: The Engine to Future Cities—A Reflective Case Study in Urban Transport” Sustainability 14(3): 1727, 10.3390/su14031727.

2021

Reades, J. and Crookston, M. (2021) ‘Face-to-Face and Central Place: Covid and the Prospects for Cities’. Built Environment, 47(3):326–335, 10.2148/benv.47.3.326.

Hubbard, P. and Reades, J. and Walter, W. (2021) ‘Shrinking homes, COVID-19 and the challenge of homeworking’. Town Planning Review, 92(1):3–10, 10.3828/tpr.2020.4.

Reades, J. and Rey, S. J. (2021) ‘Geographical Python Teaching Resources: GeoPyTeR’. Journal of Geographical Systems 10.1007/s10109-021-00346-6.

2020

Reades, J. (2020) ‘Teaching on Jupyter: Using Notebooks to accelerate learning and curriculum development’. ersa Region, 7(1):21–34, 10.18335/region.v7i1.282.

2018

Arribas-Bel, D. and Reades, J. (2018) ‘Geography and Computers: Past, Present and Future’, Geography Compass 12 (10), e12403, 10.1111/gec3.12403.

Reades, J. and de Souza, J. and Hubbard, P. (2018) ‘Understanding urban gentrification through Machine Learning: Predicting neighbourhood change in London’, Urban Studies, 56(5):922–942, 10.1177/004209801878905.

Hamnett, C. and Reades, J. (2018) ‘Mind the Gap: Implications of Overseas Investment for Regional House Price Divergence in Britain’, Housing Studies, 10.1080/02673037.2018.1444151.

Demšar, U. and Reades, J. and Manley, E. and Batty, M. (2018) ‘Revisiting the past: Replicating fifty year old flow analysis using contemporary taxi flow data’. Annals of the AAG, 108(3):811-828, 10.1080/24694452.2017.1374164.

2016

Reades, J. and Zhong, C. and Manley, E. and Batty, M. (2016) ‘Finding Pearls in London’s Oysters’, Built Environment, 42(3):365–381, 10.2148/benv.42.3.365.

Herrick, C. and Reades, J. (2016) ‘Mapping university global health partnerships’, The Lancet: Global Health 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30213-3.

2014

Reades, J. (2014) ‘Mapping changes in the affordability of London with open-source software and open data: 1997–2012’, Regional Visualisation in Regional Studies, Regional Science, 1(1):336–338, 10.1080/21681376.2014.985702

Reades, J. and Smith, D.A. (2014) ‘Mapping the Space of Flows: Business Telecommunications and Employment Specialisation in the London Mega-City Region’, Regional Studies, 48(1):105-126, 10.1080/00343404.2013.856515.

Ferrari, L. and Berlingerio, M. and Calabrese, F. & Reades, J. (2014) ‘Improving the Accessibility of Urban Transport for People with Disabilities’, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 45:27–40, 10.1016/j.trc.2013.10.005.

2013

Batty, M. and Vargas, C. and Smith, D. and Serras, J. and Reades, J. & Johansson, A. (2013) ‘SIMULACRA: fast land-use-transportation models for the rapid assessment of urban futures’, Environment & Planning B, 40(6):987-1002, 10.1068/b4006mb.

2012

Calabrese, F. and Di Lorenzo, G. and Reades, J. and Ratti, C. (2012), ‘Predicting Personal Mobility with Individual and Group Travel Histories’, Environment & Planning B, 39(5):838-857, 10.1068/b37147.

2010

Ratti, C. and Sobolevsky, S. and Calabrese, F. and Andris, C. and Reades, J. and Martino, M. and Strogatz, S. (2010), ‘Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions’, PLoS One, 5(12), 10.1371/journal.pone.0014248.

Reades, J. (2010), ‘People, Places & Privacy: Using Finite State Machines to Preserve User Privacy in Spatial Data Mining’, Journal of Urban Technology, 17(1):29-40, 10.1080/10630731003597314.

Calabrese, F. and Reades, J. and Ratti, C. (2010), ‘Eigenplaces: segmenting space through digital signatures’, IEEE, Pervasive Computing, 9(1):78-84, 10.1109/MPRV.2009.62.

2009

Reades, J. and Calabrese, F. and Ratti, C. (2009) ‘Eigenplaces: Analysing cities using the space-time structure of the mobile phone network’, Environment & Planning B, 36(5):824-836, 10.1068/b34133t.

2007

Reades, J. and Calabrese, F. and Sevtsuk, A. and Ratti, C. (2007), ‘Cellular Census: Explorations in Urban Data Collection’, ieee, Pervasive Computing, 6(3):30-38, 10.1109/MPRV.2007.53.

Book Chapters

Reades, J. (2022) ‘Locating spatial data in the social sciences’ (Chapter 2), in Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences, S. Rey and R. Franklin (eds). Edward Elgar, pp.16–35, 10.4337/9781789903942.00009.

Pettit, C. and Wentz, E. and Randolph, B. and Sanderson, D. and Kelly, F. and Beevers, S. and Reades, J. (2020), ‘Tackling the challenge of growing cities: An informed urbanisation approach’, Open Cities | Open Data, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, pp.197–219, 10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_9.

Cheshire, J. and Batty, M. and Reades, J. and Longley, P. and Manley, E. and Milton, R. (2019), ‘CyberGIS for Analyzing Urban Data’ in: Wang, S., Goodchild, M. (eds) CyberGIS for Geospatial Discovery and Innovation. GeoJournal Library, vol 118. Springer, Dordrecht, 10.1007/978-94-024-1531-5_3.

Pettit, C. and Ticzon, C. and Reades, J. and Wentz, E. and Ong, P. and Martin, C. and Troy, L. and Crommelin, L. (2018), ‘How disruptive technology is impacting the housing and property markets’, in Real Estate and GIS, 10.1201/9781315642789-3.