Urban Demographics

Great piece with a critical take and neat data analysis of how the New York’s High Line project affected real state property prices . It w...

Johnny Harris  (Vox) has filmed a great series of short-videos that helps us understand the urban landscape of Hong Kong. In one of these v...

Leonard Kiefer  has a new post where he presents some interesting analysis of global house price trends . Lonards has used data from the i...

Nice 3D dataviz of house prices in England and Wales, by Jason Cole . You can read more about this work here .

The changing gap between male and female life expectancy in the UK Till Nagel is starting a  collection of bike visualizations (maps, f...

The average price for a Manhattan residence is $1.7 million A nice visual introduction to machine learning Contemporary art with Classi...

Robert Shiller (Yale Prof. and 2013  Nobel Prize in Economics , “for their empirical analysis of asset prices”) talks about the recent ho...

100 things we didn't know last year  (via Bernardo L Queiroz ) Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward The Economis: interactiv...

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

@NatureMagazine special issue on Research Impact The World’s First Mobile Phone Shown on 1922  - handy Zipf’s Law also holds for countr...

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

Brazil’s Changing Religious Landscape A map of the African population density  (via  Demotrends ) A view of Earth from the dark side of...

A 10-minute video from MRUniversity course on development economics covering the theory and empirical research on the importance of titli...

GPSing Your Cat London’s Changing Population Perhaps you should reconsider your PhD topic  (via  MR ) Two good reasons to make a trip ...

The Central Bank of Brazil has come up with a new Real Estate Price Series   it was about time   (via  Drunkeynesian ) A new paper that ...

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

Top 10 Most Expensive Neighborhoods in Brazil The price of office space in mega cities around the world The top 10 emerging technologie...

Brazil Ignores World Cup Costs to Lift Housing: Mortgages (via Adolfo Sachsida) How names change from one generation to the next Pablo...

Heading for success: or how not to title your paper  (via  David Levinson ) The 10 largest African cities in 2013 PAA 2013 Preliminary P...

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