Urban Demographics

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

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

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...

A couple of years ago, I posted this chart showing how much time we spend with other people as we grow old. The chart was created by Henri...

Glad to share our paper on "Distributional effects of transport policies on inequalities in access to opportunities in Rio de Janeiro...

I'm off to the UK to participate in my graduation ceremony at Oxford and to celebrate my partner's graduation at  Cambridge  the o...

Summarizing the core elements of one's research to communicate with a wide audience is among the most challenging and yet important as...

shameless self-promotion post  again  Last week I was attending the 2019 International Transport Forum Summit , where I presented a...

Hi all. I am so glad to share that I have been honored with the 2019 Young Researcher of the Year Award, by the International Transport F...

Professor So nia Yeh ( Twitter ) was awarded with the Håkan Frisingers scholarship for her innovative research on sustainable transport a...

I am very pleased to share that my PhD thesis was awarded the best 2019 thesis award by the Transportation Geography Specialty Group of ...

It's Carnaval season in Brazil and I'll be in small fisherman village mostly disconnected. The level of activity in the blog will ...

I'm glad to share that the 3rd paper of my thesis is now published. The study (1) illustrates how one can measure the future accessi...

self-promotion alert   My PhD research was covered on BBC Brazil today . They present a very good summary (in Portuguese) of some of t...

I was given this birthday card by my partner yesterday. Isn't she lovely?! This is a great chart   and bit too honest  . I also re...

PhD thesis officially deposited! You can download the thesis here and check the  R code I used in the data wrangling, mapping and analysis...

Warning of  shameless   self-promotion: I'm glad to share that some colleagues at UBC ( Jerome ,  Martino  and Nuttall) and I have ...

This blog and my Twitter will be less active in the next few days. I'm on my way to California to have a few weeks off from work a...

I'm very glad   and relieved   to share the news that I became a doctor last week!  It might take some time for the university to publi...

Working from the Oxford Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera these days. Getting ready to my PhD defence and the  seminar at UCL next w...