Saturday, March 30, 2013

Music for the weekend

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(via Uhull S.A. )
Friday, March 29, 2013

Urban Picture (painting)

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(beautiful work by  Jeremy Mann , via  Colossal ) Related Links: What a Difference a Century Makes San Francisco - Fade to 1906, b...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

A demographic projection of engineering workforce

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 shameless  self-promotion alert! The Scientific Programme of the XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference is out. Here is my self-...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Academic Impacts on Governments

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It has become much easier to assess the academic impact of published papers and authors ( Google Citations Page * and T. Reuters ). Howeve...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Assorted Links

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Most common Origins and Destinations of international refugees Location, Location, and Pacification: The Effect of UPPs in Rio  (via  Br...

There's no such thing as a free parking spot

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In a recent Freakonomics  podcast, Donald Shoup (UCLA) talked about his studies on the costs of free parking. Shoup's main argument i...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Gif of the Day: Traffic Reduction

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via  urbnist.tumblr
Friday, March 22, 2013

Quote of the Day

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"Old demographers never die. They just get broken down by age and sex." ( @conradhacket  via Population Eco )
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Manufactured landscapes

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Amazing photography work by Edward Burtynsky . Some of my favorites: 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 . Related Link: Uncommon cemeteries ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The United States public debt (1789-1870)

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click on the image to enlarge it, or go to the Source [Image Credit: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection ]