Urban Demographics

Evolution of European Motorways 1920-2020 Dataviz of spatial and temporal spread in networks paper:  Open office architecture seems to d...

A new study using Natural Language Processing techniques to retrieve historical information from Wikipedia and analyze the spatial mobilit...

I am very proud to share that my friend and colleague at Ipea Pedro Souza has been awarded the Prêmio Jabuti for his book 'A His...

Have a guess. I can only say I was wrong by a lot :) Now select this back box to see how close your guess was.  109 billion   There is a  n...

Marina Amaral ( Twittter)  is a renowned digital colorist. Marina has an incredible portfolio , coloring photographs of Marie Curie, Abra...

In previous posts, I've pointed out to an incredible open dataset with comprehensive population estimates of human settlements and ci...

Paper:  "exposure to socioeconomic inequality in an everyday setting negatively affects willingness to publicly support a redistribut...

HT  MapPorn .

The world’s largest subway system goes cashless as Shanghai Metro adopts QR code Fitness tracking app Strava data gives away loca...

paper: carpooling options from companies like Uber and Lyft could reduce the number of vehicles on the road by a factor of three without s...

Interactive visualization of all the world's flight paths , by  Callum Prentice Chile is using mobile data to find out how an...

According to a new working paper, 1800s slavery explains approximately 20% of income inequality in Brazil today. While the direction of th...

Ta-Prohm, Cambodia, used to be the largest population settlement before the industrial revolution. Nowadays it is one of the most impressiv...

As many of you will know, an English physician called John Snow mapped the cholera outbreak in the Soho district of London in 1854. That ...

New York parking lot, 1930 via History in Pics

Personal details of ~200 million US citizens exposed. A 1.1 terabyte data set with names, home addresses, phone numbers, political views ...

Isoscope : work by Flavio Gortana ( Twitter ), showing how isochrones by car vary across space and time Tutorial: Spatial Datasets and...

A rank of North American Urban Planning Scholars Using Google Scholar Citation Profiles , by  Tom Sanchez  ( twitter ) On a similar not...

Uber suspends testing of self-driving cars after crash last frieday. Uber's SUV had the right of way and bears no blame Dr. Mae C. Je...

It is hard not to be a pessimist these days. As 2016 comes to an end, it leaves us with that bitter feeling of "WTF world!". In ...