Urban Demographics

In a brilliant artistic performance , Simon Weckert generated virtual traffic jams in Google Maps by pulling a wagon full of smartphones....

Aerial footage of the Maeklong Rail Market, Thailand. Captured by the talented Demas Rusli ( Instagram , Twitter ).

New York city is closer than ever to adopt congestion pricing . This could be a major change in how they address their transportation chal...

The team at Vox have produced some interesting videos on urban-related topics. I've posted a few of them here in the blog before . Th...

Yang Xu ‏( Twitter ) and his team at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have a new research project to understand the usage of dockless...

This video is from 2016/2017 but there are shorter ones  from this year  and from 2014  which also give a good idea of how Brazilians take ...

A beautiful 3D reconstruction of the Brasilia madness. It is a shame the video forgot about the men and women who built the city, but it...

Behold the "magic roundabout"  in Swindon, England. It is a roundabout formed by 5 smaller roundabouts arranged around a sixth c...

Nice video by Vox and the Mobility Lab team on how parking requirements shaped American cities. Via Jeff Wood

Beautiful drone footage of Hong Kong, by  Mariana Bisti  (2017). It's better in full screen. Wěndìng Fánróng (left channel) from ...

A rank of North American Urban Planning Scholars Using Google Scholar Citation Profiles , by  Tom Sanchez  ( twitter ) On a similar not...

A short video about Tower of David, possibly the tallest slum today, located in Caracas, Venezuelza. (Thanks Telmo Ribeiro and Lucas Matio...

The video was made by Kico Santos and his team at  Cinema de Rua . The current city policy towards the city's graffiti has been a co...

Great data visualization created by Nathan Yau using R and NHGIS data . Nathan's website Flowing Data is one of my all time favorit...

Iyad Rahwan  presents in a TEDx his  recently published paper  on the the social dilemma of driverless cars (arXiv version here ). HT  Ces...

I have already posted in the blog about the The Black Hole Theory of Highway Investment . For this matter, LA's 405 freeway is quite ...

BBC Four has a produced a fascinating documentary on  The Joy of Data , presented by the great  Hannah Fry  ( Twitter ).

Oh, humans and our monstrous creativity to deal with self-inflicted problems. ps.the  magic roundabout  (3:40min) is definitely one of...

A nice video of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center  on the use of agent-based computer simulations to study societies. Via Andy Kirk . ...

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