Assorted Links

1. Nice website to compare the area footprint and density of metro areas at the same scale, by Brandon M-Anderson
   
   
2. How population growth is affecting the declining dynamism in the economy
   
   
3. The city of Zurich published its 50,000 detailed 3D buildings as Open Data, via Christian Hürzeler 
   
   
4. “Economics to Sociology Phrase Book”: a guide “to help economists adjust their way of speaking in a manner that will make it comprehensible to Sociologists” via Leo Monasterio
   
   
5. Interesting paper bridging the fields of human geography, sociology and personality psychology to improve current models of mobility and tie formation. by Laura Alessandretti, Andrea Baronchelli and Sune Lehmann
   
   
6. Google Maps, but for emissions modeling via Eli Knaap
   
   
7. Extraordinary 4 minute tram-ride, along the streets of Rochdale (UK) in 1900, via Tim Dunn
   
   
8. Alasdair Rae has written a tutorial on working with high resolution global population data in QGIS