Urban Demographics

New paper by Renan Cortes and the Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL) team, giving a great contribution to the study of segre...

Thomas Schelling has passed away earlier this week.   The NYT has published an obituary of Schelling  who, as many of you will know, hav...

Herwig Scherabon , an incredibly talented graphic designer, has created this artistic representation of income segregation of Los Angeles,...

A new study by  Toni  brings an interesting analysis on residential mobility and social polarisation in Barcelona. López-Gay, A. (2016) “...

A Compendium of Clean Graphs in R An introduction to Agent-Based Modelling in R Implementing Spatial Segregation Measures in R How long...

Cyclists will outnumber car drivers entering central London in rush hour in the next few years, according to Transport for London (TfL) 3...

Using the  Dissimilarity Index  to measure racial segregation, this his is how the most segregated cities in the US and Brazil compare. A ...

A few weeks ago, we made a blog post about the racial dot map of Rio de Janeiro , inspired by  Bill Rankin's maps on segregation  and ...

Mental note: New paper in my reading list. Big names from transport/geography studies pushing the boundaries of segregation research by go...

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 ...

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

"In 1970, 65 percent of families lived in middle-income neighborhoods; by 2009, only 42 percent of families lived in such neighborho...

An invisible frontier in Nouakchott, Capital of Mauritania [Photography: Steve McCurry National Geographic August 1987 invisible ...

The effect of segregation on economic growth Global and local spatial indices of urban segregation Some Notes on Schelling's Essay ...

Self-recommending: Getting to Work: Experimental Evidence on Job Search and Transportation Costs , by David Phillips . Abstract: In u...

Social segregation and academic achievement in state-run elementary schools in the municipality of Campinas The debate on ‘the end of th...

Paavo Monkkonen has just published a paper that examines the impact of the expansion of housing finance on socioeconomic segregation in M...

Great paper on  Global and Local Spatial Indices of Urban Segregation (by Feitosa et al. from INPE ).  Schelling's Segregation Model...

Post : On sputtering integration in Toronto (by Demography Matters ) Demographic Buffet : explore data from the Census Bureau's Amer...

Inspired by Bill Rankin’s Chicago Boundaries (2009), Eric Fischer mapped r ace and ethnicity for other 40 American cities ! obs. Red is W...