Urban Demographics

In the early 1950s, Kenneth Arrow published his PhD thesis where he demonstrated that it does not exist a method of converting individual...

Interesting paper on computer vision & urban economics, by Cesar Hidalgo and colleagues.  Ungated version here . Naik , N., Rask...

Merry OXmas everyone!  via  Thomas Bauwens

The  NYU Stern Urbanization Project  has been organizing a number of great seminars that cover interesting speakers at the intersection of...

Prof Henry G Overman ( LSE ) points out to this great opportunity of a Postdoc position to do research on Urbanization in Developing Econ...

Where on earth is the Berlin wall?    Full story here You could fit all the planets of the Solar System within the distance between the E...

Lessons From Brazil’s War on Poverty What makes most restaurant reviews worthless The present and future of Google Maps The world cup i...

High resolution maps of urban perception of safety  (via C Hidalgo ) The transformation of Colombia’s second city will be hard to copy A...

Henry Overman points out to some Research Vacancies on Urbanization in Developing Economies in a joint programme between Serc/LSE and Oxf...

Chen, M Keith (2013) " The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Ass...