Urban Demographics

New paper by the Seto Lab in collaboration with  Anjali Mahendra  (who is also on Twitter ). Mahtta, R., Mahendra, A., & Seto, K. C....

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

[image credit: Batista e Silva et al, 2013 ] The map shows a fine-scale spatial population distribution in selected European capita...

Oscar Niemeyer and his buildings - Some of them are incredibly beautiful. Most of them are incredibly nonfunctional After-tax income in d...

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

Michael E. Smith  writes a very interesting piece on How ancient cities can help us understand modern cities . And this paper caught my att...

Nice post by Matt Hartzell   comparing the physical footprints of 54 cities around the world . It reminded me of this interesting study by ...

Would you call this urban sprawl? (via Human Scale Cities , a great blog by the way). Los Angeles [Image Credit: ?] Soundtrack: ...

The City Form Lab (SUTD/MIT) has a research project on measuring urban expansion, particularly focused in East Asia. They have recently p...

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

A comparison of the built-up area of 129 'extended metros' that represent 35% of the world's urban population:  Measuring the ...

National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2012 Luis Bettencourt on the Science of Cities Suburban Sprawl and its Causal Effect on Baske...

Some of you might remember this post showing the urban expansion of Las Vegas (1984-2009) . Now,  NASA decided to celebrate Landsat 5...

"How do we know 'waste' when we see it? [...] When it comes to land use patterns, the acid test is is simply whether the urbani...

A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion  (more on this paper here ) " Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground " a great paper titl...

If you are looking for data on urban sprawl around the world, you should check out the Atlas of Urban Expansion  by the Lincoln Institute of...

Glaeser gave this lecture on November 13, 2008, at LSE. This event marked the launch of the Spatial Economics Research Centre . He sta...

These images (taken by NASA) show the urbanzation of Chandler (the fastest-growing satellite city on the outskirts of Phoenix). ps. 1-  Ac...

Glaeser on how housing policies (local land use regulation) might be driving US internal migration. Here and Here . Christoph Gielen an...

Google has scanned 15 million books originally published from 1800 on. And they have also developed the Google Books Ngram Viewer . It...