Urban Demographics

Many of you will remember that "Marge vs the Monorail" episode of The Simpsons*.  Juliet Eldred has written a hilarious and thou...

While many academics would like to (or are expected to) develop research with impact on the real world outside the ivory tower, this is ho...

I've posted before about the " Humans of Simulated New York ", a comprehensive agent-based model (ABM) of city life that is b...

About a month ago, I submitted the 4th paper of my PhD research for publication. The preprint of the paper is available at Open Science Fra...

The journal Complexity  has opened a call for papers for a special issue on applications of complexity science for public policy .  Thanks ...

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

Some of my colleagues at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea - Brazil) are organizing a seminar on ' Modeling Complex Sy...

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

The World Bank have asked themselves this question and here is what they found: almost 87 percent of  their policy reports were never cited...

PhD Scholarships for students in Latin America , by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 100 historic photographs of Brazil Watch Water ...

Open Culture points out to about 80 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) getting started in April. Here is their  comprehensive list of MOOC...

A couple of months ago, I shared a post with a short presentation by Janette Sadik-Khan talking about the recent low-cost interventions on...

As some of you may know, I have just started my PhD  and I will be focusing on 'Equity Issues in Transport Policies' with bits of ...

Road pricing: What’s not to love? Top 20 things politicians need to know about science  and  Top 20 things scientists need to know about...

The world's tallest slum  (via Pedro Souza ) Observing the Earth with Incredible Satellite Photos Tweet City: Building Heights by N...

A short presentation by Janette Sadik-Khan (New York transportation comissioner) talking about the recent low-cost interventions on public...

Análise Real (a Brazilian economics Blog) called my attention to this paper by Profs. K. Muralidharan and N. Prakash where they analyze...

OECD Health Data 2013 The infrastructure behind Dutch cycling  (via MR ) How people get to work across England and Wales? Red Bull Ill...

It has become much easier to assess the academic impact of published papers and authors ( Google Citations Page * and T. Reuters ). Howeve...

Most common Origins and Destinations of international refugees Location, Location, and Pacification: The Effect of UPPs in Rio  (via  Br...