Urban Demographics

Isoscope : work by Flavio Gortana ( Twitter ), showing how isochrones by car vary across space and time Tutorial: Spatial Datasets and...

Patrick Gerland  points to a new paper/open dataset that provides the first spatially explicit archive of the location and size of urban p...

Google Earth Engine has released new data for their project Timelapse , which combines over 5 million satellite images acquired over the ...

Marcelo Medeiros (who is secretly my guru) pointed me out to two papers on a long-term historical perspective of urban growth, by  Rafael ...

Using R to model spatial patterns of urban growth in Africa Great 'course' on network visualization with R , by Katherine Ognyanov...

Interactive Map showing urban growth trends between 1950-2030 , by Duncan Smith Pictures of 11 Abandoned Monorails ( and the perfect so...

Jedwab , R. and  Vollrath , D.  Urbanization without Growth in Historical Perspective . Working Papers from The George Washington Universit...

Barros, Joana (2012). Exploring urban dynamics in Latin American cities using an agent-based simulation approach . In Agent-based models o...

[image credit: Thompson Reuters , via  Pedro Damiao ]

Motamed, M.J. et al. (2014) Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level . Journal o...

We have mentioned the  Atlas of Urban Expansion here at Urban Demographics a while ago . It is an amazing project supported by the Lincol...

A recent study by Marc Barthelemy and colleagues analyzing more than 200 years (1789–2010) of the evolution of the street network of Pari...

A while ago we had a few posts with satellites images showing the urban expansion of Phoenix (1989 - 2009) ,  São Paulo (1957-2007)  and L...

A nice chart showing the U.N. estimate for the demographic evolution of cities between 1950 and 2025. (via RC21 Network ).  Here are som...

Bernardo A. Furtado (a friend of mine from Ipea) have recently published this paper that I'd like to share with you: A cellular auto...

For those interested in cellular automata models, you may watch a live broadcast of the CAMUSS* Symposium (November 8–10) here . *Cam...

A cutting edge study by Karen C. Seto (Yale) and others on urban growth projections around the world and some of its environmental impacts...

"You tell me the size of any city in the United States and I can tell you with 80 to 90 percent accuracy almost everything about it. ...

Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE) presents at the Lincoln Institute his project on digitizing data from the Olcott's land values blue book of Ch...

A gif depicting Buenos Aires urban expansion in three different time periods: until 1947; from 1947 to 1972 and 1972 onwards (thanks Leona...