Monday, April 20, 2020

We are moving to a new home: Urban Demographics 2.0

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NOTE:  This website has moved to a new address at  urbandemographics.org . This content has not been updated since April 2020. Aft...
Monday, April 13, 2020

The delineation and growth of metropolitan areas in the world between 2000 and 2015

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A talented team at the OECD and the European Union have developed a consistent method to delineate metropolitan areas – or functional urba...
Friday, April 10, 2020

COVID-19 pandemic and access to healthcare in Brazil's largest cities

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The Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) published yesterday our study looking at ' Urban mobility and access to the h...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Assorted Links on COVID19

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I must say I've been feeling saturated and underwhelmed by the number of data analysts who suddenly became public health and epidemiol...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Creating an animated gif of public transport networks using GTFS data

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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

In hard times like this, the truth comes out

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Wonderful cartoon by Emily Flake  for the New Yorker .
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Call for papers: Advances in Spatial and Transport Network Analysis

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The Int Journal of Geo-information has opened a call for papers for special issue on " Advances in Spatial and Transport Network Anal...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

New paper out: Disparities in travel times between cars and public transport

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I am very glad to share our new paper looking at the travel time gap between private and public transport at high spatial and temporal res...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Six open positions in the Access to Opportunities Project

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We are hiring six research assistants to work with me on the Access to Opportunities Project , at the Institute for Applied Economic R...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Perspectives and challenges of Smart (and inclusive) Cities in Brazil

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I will be on a Facebook Live today discussing some of the challenges of developing Smart and inclusive (!) Cities in Brazil. The Live is b...