Urban Demographics

via Brent Toderian

In 2003,  Gordon Mitchell and Danny Dorling published " An environmental justice analysis of British air quality ", a widely c...

Daniel D Moran et colleagues developed the Global Gridded Model of Carbon Footprints (GGMCF) . This model provides a globally consistent a...

Using geolocated tweets and the Google Books datasets to map the Americanization of English in space and time , by Bruno Gonçalves et al. ...

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health has recently published a report that calls attention to the fact that pollution kills 3 time...

The Lone Man Building a Cathedral By Hand Language Evolution Simulation w/ Agent-Based Modeling via Mara Averick A research consortium ...

These are the core issues covered in five special issues of top journals this year, what I think reflects how these topics and particularly...

Tijs Neutens  and colleagues have a new paper where they use mobile phone data to assess people's exposure to air pollution in Belgium...

This comes from The Economist's Daily chart , where you can find other indicators and more information on the methodology (more here )....

Luc Anselin and team join University of Chicago   with new  Center for Spatial Data Science  (ht  Kyle Walker ) Skydiver makes parachute-...

Jack Caldwell has passed away Urban development and air pollution: evidence from a global panel of cities The easiest way ...

The latest issue of Nature Energy is out.  There is an interesting paper that puts together a miscellaneous of concepts from different th...

Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities in the USA Neat 3D globe animation of atmospheric flow on Earth Le...

Hotter temperatures reduce sex drive and lower birth rates, according to a recent study published as a NBER Working Paper. There is a good ...

Cities bask in spotlight at Paris climate talks Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit  ht Leo Monasterio How...

Consumption, Consumption, Consumption. Nice videographic, by The Economist. China and India are perceived to be the worst emitters of car...

Beijing Quadrupled in Size in a Decade, NASA Finds Delhi metro could soon run completely on solar power 25+ Of The Most Majestic Libra...

China is internationally famous for its bad air quality. So I was quite surprised to know that India has even higher levels of air polluti...

Blade Runner? No! Beijing, today. pic.twitter.com/JB6lUGLzg0 — Puño (@punodraws) January 14, 2015

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a short post about NASA's project to monitor Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Space using a new sat...