The World is Spiky and Spikier

T he globalist narrative is that the world is getting flat. That claim is true in a way because of all the increase in the volume and velocity of interactions in the world. However, from another viewpoint the world is getting spikier as well. Some places are faster in urbanising than the others. To illustrate that claim, I made the following maps of global population (and density) using R.

Which places are getting spikier? Which are not? (Shout out to all the flat-earthers out there! Spiky-earthers are coming!)

I made the maps using data from Columbia University. The methodology was made by Dr. James Cheshire, one of the the persons who will mark my thesis dissertation in University College London in a few months (oh no, haha).

(originally posted in my old Medium publication, Spatialist, in 2017)