CV and publications

Curriculum vitae

Publications, by type of output

Journal articles, books, chapters, reports, theses and talks, newest first within each type.

Journal articles28

  1. Buyuklieva, B., Bevilacqua, I., Dennett, A., Reades, J. and Hubbard, P. (2025). Life for rent: Evolving residential infrastructure in London and the rise of Build-to-Rent. Urban Studies, 62(6), pp. 1232–1249. DOI
  2. Sheppard, L. and Reades, J. (2025). Finding the female geographers: The gendered dynamics of UK geography PhD study. The Professional Geographer, 77(3), pp. 343–356. DOI
  3. Sheppard, L. H., Reades, J. and Freeman, R. P. (2025). Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 50(3), pp. e12745. DOI
  4. Reades, J., Hu, Y., Tranos, E. and Delmelle, E. (2025). The city as text. Nature Cities, 2(9), pp. 794–800. DOI
  5. Chng, I., Reades, J. and Hubbard, P. (2024). Planning deregulation as solution to the housing crisis: The affordability, amenity and adequacy of Permitted Development in London. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 56(3), pp. 961–978. DOI
  6. Hubbard, P., Reades, J., Walter, H. and Preston, C. (2024). Shrinking homes? The geographies of small domestic properties in London, 2010–2021. Environment and Planning B, 51(5), pp. 1137–1152. DOI
  7. Reades, J. and Williams, J. (2023). Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings. Programming Historian. DOI
  8. Sheppard, L., Reades, J. and Freeman, R. P. J. (2023). Gendering and Diversifying the Research Pipeline: A Quantitative Feminist Geographical Approach to Gender in Higher Education. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(4), pp. 817–833. DOI
  9. Reades, J., Lees, L., Hubbard, P. and Lansley, G. (2022). Quantifying state-led gentrification in London: Using linked consumer and administrative records to trace displacement from council estates. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, pp. 0308518X221135610. DOI
  10. Pettit, C. J., Zarpelon Leao, 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), pp. 1727. DOI
  11. Reades, J. and Crookston, M. (2021). Face-to-Face and Central Place: Covid and the Prospects for Cities. Built Environment, 47(3), pp. 326–335. DOI
  12. Reades, J. and Rey, S. J. (2021). Geographical Python teaching resources: geopyter. Journal of Geographical Systems, 23(4), pp. 579–597. DOI
  13. Hubbard, P., Reades, J. and Walter, H. (2021). Shrinking homes, COVID-19 and the challenge of homeworking. Town Planning Review, 92(1), pp. 3–10. DOI
  14. Reades, J. (2020). Teaching on jupyter. Region: the journal of ERSA, 7(1), pp. 21–34. DOI
  15. Reades, J., De Souza, J. and Hubbard, P. (2019). Understanding urban gentrification through machine learning. Urban Studies, 56(5), pp. 922–942. DOI
  16. Demšar, U., Reades, J., Manley, E. and Batty, M. (2018). Revisiting the Past: Replicating Fifty-Year-Old Flow Analysis Using Contemporary Taxi Flow Data. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(3), pp. 811-828. DOI
  17. Hamnett, C. and Reades, J. (2018). Mind the gap: implications of overseas investment for regional house price divergence in Britain. Housing Studies, pp. 1–19. DOI
  18. Arribas-Bel, D. and Reades, J. (2018). Geography and computers: Past, present, and future. Geography Compass, 12, pp. e12403. DOI
  19. Herrick, C. and Reades, J. (2016). Mapping university global health partnerships. The Lancet Global Health, 4(10), pp. e694. DOI
  20. Reades, J., Zhong, C., Manley, E., Milton, R. and Batty, M. (2016). Finding pearls in London’s oysters. Built Environment, 42(3), pp. 365–381. DOI
  21. Reades, J. and Smith, D. (2014). Mapping the ‘Space of Flows’: the geography of global business telecommunications and employment specialisation in the London Mega-City Region. Regional Studies, 48(1), pp. 105–126. DOI
  22. Ferrari, L., Berlingerio, M., Calabrese, F. and Reades, J. (2014). Improving the accessibility of urban transportation networks for people with disabilities. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 45, pp. 27–40. DOI
  23. Calabrese, F., Di Lorenzo, G., Reades, J. and Ratti, C. (2012). Predicting Personal Mobility with Individual and Group Travel Histories. Environment and Planning B. DOI
  24. Ratti, C., Sobolevsky, S., Calabrese, F., Andris, C., Reades, J., Martino, M., Claxton, R. and Strogatz, S. H. (2010). Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions. PLoS One, 5(12), pp. 1–6. DOI
  25. Reades, J. (2010). Finite State Machines: Preserving Privacy When Data-Mining Cellular Phone Networks. Journal of Urban Technology, 17(1), pp. 29-40. DOI
  26. Calabrese, F., Reades, J. and Ratti, C. (2010). Eigenplaces: Segmenting Space through Digital Signatures. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 9(1), pp. 78-84. DOI
  27. Reades, J., Calabrese, F. and Ratti, C. (2009). Eigenplaces: analysing cities using the space-time structure of the mobile phone network. Environment and Planning B, 36(5), pp. 824-836. DOI
  28. Reades, J., Calabrese, F., Sevtsuk, A. and Ratti, C. (2007). Cellular census: Explorations in urban data collection. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6(3), pp. 30-38. DOI

Books1

  1. Reades, J. and Crookston, M. (2021). Why face-to-face still matters: The persistent power of cities in the post-pandemic era. Policy Press.

Book chapters3

  1. Pettit, C., Wentz, E., Randolph, B., Sanderson, D., Kelly, F., Beevers, S. and Reades, J. (2020). Tackling the challenge of growing cities: An informed urbanisation approach. Open Cities | Open Data, pp. 197–219. DOI
  2. Cheshire, J., Batty, M., Reades, J., Longley, P., Manley, E. and Milton, R. (2019). CyberGIS for Analyzing Urban Data. CyberGIS for Geospatial Discovery and Innovation, pp. 33–52. DOI
  3. Reades, J. (2016). Location and Innovation. Sir Peter Hall: Pioneer in Regional Planning, Transport and Urban Geography, pp. 21–35. DOI

Report chapters1

  1. Claxton, R., Reades, J. and Anderson, B. (2012). On the Value of Digital Traces for Commercial Strategy and Public Policy: Telecommunications Data as a Case Study. The Global Information Technology Report 2012, pp. 105–112.

Theses1

  1. Reades, J. (2011). The Place of Telecommunications: Spatial Decision-Making by Firms in the Age of Global Communications. University College London.

Talks11

  1. Reades, J. (2026). What the Model Throws Away: Critical thinking about data, space & AI. BITES 2026: 1st International Summer School on Biosciences, Informatics, Tourism, Engineering and Sustainability, Molise, Italy.
  2. Williams, J. and Reades, J. (2025). Innovation in UK Academia: the Role of PhD Abstracts. Regional Studies Association (RSA).
  3. Reades, J. and MacLachlan, A. (2025). From Reproducible Research to Teaching, and Back. ARC Festival. Slides
  4. Batty, M. and Reades, J. (2025). Digital Twins in City Planning. ARC Festival. Slides
  5. Reades, J. and Crookston, M. (2025). Life and Work: Face-to-Face and the Post-Covid City. Carter Jonas.
  6. Reades, J. (2024). Growing Your Data Pipeline. Internal research seminar.
  7. Reades, J. (2024). Counting the cost of gentrification?.
  8. Reades, J. (2023). Building Foundations: Reproducible (Geographic) Data Science. Teaching Reproducible Research and Open Science Conference, Sheffield. Slides
  9. Reades, J., Williams, J. and Sheppard, L. (2023). Digital Footprints in Mountains of Data. Mapping the Terrain conference.
  10. Reades, J. and Williams, J. (2022). Comparing automated document classification using word embeddings to expert-assigned Dewey Decimal classifications. DCDC 2022. Slides
  11. Reades, J. (2022). Why Face-to-Face Still Matters. CLC 2022.