Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Interactive content from ONS (UK)

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We have already  posted here some interactive content from The Office for National Statistics - ONS (UK Statistics Authority) - the intera...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Urban Africa

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Edgar Pieterse (African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town) talks about African Urbanism at LSE - available as youtube vide...

Stupid Measures: The end of population

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It has been a while since we have created a ' Stupid Measures' session  here at Urban Demographics Blog. The Economist Magazine has ...
Friday, August 26, 2011

ISUF 2011 - 18th International Seminar on Urban Form.

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The 18th International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF 2011) starts today ! Unfortunately, I couldn't attend to the event, but I hope the...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Labor Force and Economic Growth

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Recently there has been some public debate about the shortage of skilled workers. The debate emerges either in developing countries with ...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Assorted Links

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Call for Papers -  2012 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America  (PAA) - Deadline for submissions:  23 September 2011 . ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Policy Evaluation - book recommendation

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If you are looking for a book on the topic, I would recommend you this one:   Program Evaluation: Alternative Approaches and Practical Guide...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Atlas of Urban Expansion

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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...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Assorted links

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Urban Network Analysis : A Toolbox for ArcGIS 10 (via @jmichaelbatty ) G-Econ  -  Geographically based Economic data  (via devecondata ) ...

off-topic: São Paulo CBD

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I have just come back from a work trip to São Paulo*. I ran into this as I walked through the CBD.  Banespa Building [Photo credit: R...