Urban Demographics

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

The accumulated history of US immigration visualized as rings in a growing tree trunk . The chart was created by Pedro M. Cruz  and  John ...

Post-doctoral position at Lund University to work on sustainable urban mobility and accessibility with a focus on economics and transpo...

This is according to a recent paper published in Nature . The authors analyzed 14 million papers published between 2008 and 2015 by nearly...

Carlos Goes  pointed me to this short piece in The Economist : "... communities have proved more durable than borders. The counti...

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...

Nature has a new special issue on migration and refugees  (via Nicolsa Perra ). The United Nations has declared that the number of displ...

Challenge:  try to guess how family income affects children’s college chances Twenty rules for good graphics , by Rob Hyndman David Lev...

Rejected designs for the Eiffel Tower The effects of China's universal two-child policy What your political ideology tells about you...

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John Weeks points out to this interactive map of international immigration to the US, based on population census data (1850 - 2010) . Thi...

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Fordlandia: The Failure Of Ford's Jungle Utopia ht Pablo Astudillo The most highly educated group of immigrants to the US are those...

Hans Rosling (aka the Mick Jagger of statistics) in an informative three-minute video about the Syrian Refugees.

Tow daily charts from The Economist, showing the Annual immigration flow into the US since 2000  and the number of refugees by country of...

The UN has recently released the 2015 Revision of World Population Prospects (via Bernardo Queiroz ) Cutting edge research behind new po...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about the new UN annual report on forced migration and refugees and how the guys at the NYT ( S.Peç...

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

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published this month their annual report on Global Trends of forced migration an...

An antique and insanely detailed useless map of migration in the US (via Ben Henning ) A more interactive and interesting way to visuali...