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The Polycrisis and Data: Danny Dorling

What is the next crisis that awaits us? How likely is it that it will be a polycrisis, with multiple concurrent problems combining and amplifying to devastating global impact? What can data tell us about what’s happening today – and what might happen tomorrow? Audio recording of a talk by Danny Dorling at the City+ 2025 Conference: Urban Data Analytics and the Polycrisis, held at the University of Oxford on 29 September 2025. Includes audience Q&A.Note: audio levels are variable. City+ organises annual international conferences on interdisciplinary urban studies. The first event was City+2017 at University of Cambridge, followed by City+2018 at University College London, City+2019 at Delft University of Technology, City+2021 at Polytechnic University of Milan, City+2022 at Australian National University, City+2023 at Curtin University and City+2024 at University of Kitakyushu. To date, its conferences have attracted more than 800 from many leading universities and institutes across countries from all continents. It has demonstrated its potential to be a good platform for sharing research experiences and thinking, developing cooperation opportunities, and addressing urban concerns from an interdisciplinary perspective. Danny Dorling is 1971 Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, and author of a number of acclaimed books. In this talk he draws on some of his most recent books, including The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future (Verso), Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis (Policy Press), Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation (Hurst), and Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State (Verso). www.dannydorling.org