Talk:Danny Dorling

In case anyone is wondering, Danny gets my vote as a notable person.

Politics and housing tenure?

Having read his book "All that is Solid" - which can be summarised as a 368 page rant which says "I don't like paying rent, and private landlords are evil because they have money", I would have liked to have learnt if he admits being a Marxist and if he owns his own home? Both very relevant to the interperetation of that book.

I feel that his views on housing have also been grossly influenced by him, like Mr. Corbyn, living in a very expensive area where lots of people also want to live and assuming that the whole country is like that - if he lived in a cheaper less attractive area away from London or Oxford etc then his views would be much more moderate. Getting annoyed because you cannot afford to live in central London or other very expensive places is like getting annoyed because you cannot afford to buy a Lamborghini instead of a Toyota. Rather than increasing supply his not very thought out solutions are to legislate to decrease rents and also greatly increase benefits - which by standard economics would create homelessness, decrease productivity, increase freeriding, and increase inflation. And he suggests that the past was a golden age - well it wasnt - from personal experience moving to London in the 70s I can tell you that it was worse than it is now. 92.28.243.172 (talk) 16:03, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Mapping

Quite apart from his politics his teams work on demographics and dynamic digitial mapping is remarkable. Szczels (talk) 11:24, 24 August 2016 (UTC)