Nikhil Desai
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Some ramblings on cities, complex systems and spatial data science.

A fruit and vegetable stall on Ridley Road, Dalston
Urban geography · Dalston, London · September 13 2026

An Homage to the Dalston Sainsbury's

Fifty metres from a Ridley Road market stall to a supermarket aisle, and what that short walk says about how London mixes.

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Heat Vulnerability Index across the Barcelona metropolitan region
Climate modelling · Barcelona · August 17 2026

Heat vulnerability, layer by layer

Why climate risk has to be modelled street by street, and what eighteen layers of data reveal about who is most exposed to extreme heat in Catalunya.

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