Urban Demographics

I have posted in the past a GIF that compares  the expansion of the subway systems of Rio and Shanghai between 1979 and 2014 . This is a b...

  Chris Buckley , reporting for the NYT. China will allow all couples to have two children, a Communist Party leadership meeting decided...

These incredible scenes reminded me of a quote by Plane (1995) about the Black Hole Theory of Highway Investment: "Initial ...

Quick fact about China's Pearl River Delta.  It is considered the world's largest megacity today and it already has more people th...

Beijing Quadrupled in Size in a Decade, NASA Finds Delhi metro could soon run completely on solar power 25+ Of The Most Majestic Libra...

MOOC on Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys in Coursera , offered by the University of Michigan More than half of Beijing’s residen...

China is internationally famous for its bad air quality. So I was quite surprised to know that India has even higher levels of air polluti...

Besides the already famous Ghost Cities , China also has a growing number of copycat towns , or  'Copy & Paste Cities' as I lik...

It's not everyday you see demographers publishing on journals like Science and Nature. So here is a short list with some of the papers ...

In the local mongolian language 'Ordos' means “the land of many palaces". This is the title of a documentary (in production) ...

It's been a while since I don't make any post on the Chinese empty cities. So here is an updated 12-minute video on the "Chine...

The Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) promoted a series of workshops on June 2013. Here is the presentation by Prof. Zhao Yaohui (...

Tyler Cowen  pointed out this nice piece in the NYT on the Chinese government's plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly c...

26th ERSA Summer School  (ht Leo Monasterio ) Why Has Competition to Get into Top Colleges Become Much Tougher? Good tuff question 11 ...

@cduhigg and @KeithBradsher for the NYT: "Another critical advantage for Apple was that China provided engineers at a scale the Un...

Heads Up! The Journal of Transport Geography (JTRG)* has opened a call for papers for a special issue on The Changing Landscapes of Tran...

Abstract: We provide the first multi-city, constant quality land price index for 35 major markets in China. While there is meaningful he...

Old People Versus Babies, In One Graph  (via  Population Econ ) The Environmental Consequences of Urban Growth in Brazil's Amazon Wo...

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Car use is peaking in the rich world  and exploding in China Confirmation Bias and the iPhone 5 The fractals at the heart of African des...