Geodata engineering &
urban-dynamics research
for decisions about place.
I build production spatial systems and study how cities change — gentrification, accessibility, housing markets — at parcel and postcode resolution. The sectors vary; the question rarely does: where, how much, and what's next.
Selected work & papers.
Research-grade work on urban dynamics and geospatial methods. Real estate is one application; the throughline is the method.
Gentrification agent-based model
Ten-year ABM of neighbourhood turnover in Amsterdam, calibrated on Kadaster and CBS microdata. Affordability-attractiveness decision rules; agent mobility emergent from price pressure. The single best evidence of the urban-dynamics identity.
Monthly house-price index · 13 EU countries
Large-scale European spatial-data engineering: a web-scraping pipeline across 13 countries feeding a log-price hedonic regression. Monthly indices tested as disaggregation indicators for Eurostat quarterly HPIs.
Connectivity & walkability scoring
A geospatial-methods contribution: a saturation-validated connectivity/walkability score at parcel resolution. Developed at KR&A; method paper forthcoming 2026.
Selected papers.
Recent work on urban dynamics, geospatial methods and large-scale European spatial-data engineering. View All →
Four lanes.
One geospatial-engineering toolkit, four lanes. Urban dynamics is the anchor; real estate is one application, not the frame.
Urban dynamics & geospatial methods
Gentrification modelling, accessibility and connectivity, parcel- and postcode-level spatial analysis. The anchor — where the publishing and the PhD concentrate.
Real estate & investment
Valuation, rent and risk models, alternative data for REITs and funds. One lane and the warmest network — not the identity.
Supply-chain & commodity forecasting
The spatial-optimisation slice of logistics: network design, catchment and routing, facility siting, wood and commodity supply forecasting.
Spatial data products
Productised scores and feeds — connectivity and walkability indices, first-home-buyer methods. Validated as licensing first, funded by the consulting lanes.
Applied across: urban planning · real estate · climate risk · logistics & mobility · public sector
Also under the hood: LLM/RAG pipelines and internal tools that automate classification, research and reporting — production AI as engineering range, not the headline.
Things that shipped and stuck.
Ian shipped the thing he said he'd ship, in the time he said he'd ship it.
Recent thoughts.
Essays, tutorials and field notes. View all →