Visualising urban form and dynamics: British inner cities are densifying, and suburbs are fairly static or declining

The last census showed significant population growth across British cities after decades of stagnation and decline. Using visualisations from a research project investigating relationships between urban form and dynamics in British cities, Duncan A. Smith finds that, on the whole, there is a distinct spatial pattern of population change that is surprisingly consistent across cities. This data review prompts a series of further questions regarding the socioeconomic and property market processes inherent in this urban change, and what future city centres and suburbs will be like.