Urban Demographics

Glad to share our paper on "Distributional effects of transport policies on inequalities in access to opportunities in Rio de Janeiro...

Summarizing the core elements of one's research to communicate with a wide audience is among the most challenging and yet important as...

shameless self-promotion post  again  Last week I was attending the 2019 International Transport Forum Summit , where I presented a...

Hi all. I am so glad to share that I have been honored with the 2019 Young Researcher of the Year Award, by the International Transport F...

I am very pleased to share that my PhD thesis was awarded the best 2019 thesis award by the Transportation Geography Specialty Group of ...

The map shows how long it takes (in minutes) to travel by public transport and walking to the closest healthcare facility across the city...

I'm glad to share that the 3rd paper of my thesis is now published. The study (1) illustrates how one can measure the future accessi...

PhD thesis officially deposited! You can download the thesis here and check the  R code I used in the data wrangling, mapping and analysis...

Hi all. I will be in the UK over the next couple of weeks. My PhD defence is on Sept 18th  but I'm too nervous to talk about it these d...

I'm glad to share that the 2nd paper of my thesis is now published. It will remain open access for the next 50 days.  Downloaded it...

Nova Iguaçu (Brazil). Nova Iguaçu is a municipality in the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro. The ocean and some of Rio's mountains ca...

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...

Good news! The 2nd paper of my thesis is coming out of the oven \o/ . The paper has not been assigned to a journal issue yet, but here you ...

Morro da Providência favela, the first favela in Brazil, reflected on a new corporate building in the old port area of Rio de Janeiro. P...

A couple of weeks ago, I organized the seminar  "Transport legacy of mega-events, equity and the future of public transport in Rio de...

Just a quick update of my PhD. A few months ago I was awarded the Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship, by the WRI Ross Center for Sustaina...

Joe Capra  (aka  SCIENTIFANTASTIC ) has one of the most seriously awesome time-lapse videos in high definition. Since were in Olympics seas...

Laris Karklis and colleagues have written a nice piece for the Washing Post,  using satellite images to show some of the transformations ...

A cute video to celebrate the coming of the Olympic Games this year.

A while ago, I've posted some of  Bill Rankin's maps on segregation for different cities in the USA. Those maps got a lot public ...