Saturday, September 28, 2013

Message of the Day

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[Image Credit: Shoot the shit ] Heading to Oxford
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Biographical note: Starting my PhD

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Good news! I’m excited to announce that I'm starting my PhD at Oxford University this Fall. I'll be studying at the ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The Causes of Informal Housing - EPAINOS 2013 Prize Winner

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Every year, the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) gives the EPAINOS award to a young scientist, under 33 years old. It makes me...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Message of the Day

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via HighExistence
Friday, September 13, 2013

Urban Picture

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An invisible frontier in Nouakchott, Capital of Mauritania [Photography: Steve McCurry National Geographic August 1987 invisible ...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Assorted Links on R

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Map like a 3d Ninja in R A catalog with 680 datasets distributed with R Coursera's free R courses are running again so...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Chart of the Day

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A nice chart showing the change in life expectancy for 190 countries over the last 20 years (via  Thomson Reuters ). Related Link: ...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Counting Climate Migrants

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Those loyal readers of this blog shoud remember I consider  More or Less  as one of the best podcasts ever (a great companion for dishwash...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

New York City Land Use

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Alasdair Rae has done some great maps of land use patterns in the city of New York . The maps are based on the Property Land Use Tax lot Ou...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Transforming Cities

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A special issue on Transforming Cities by The Economist Magazine (via  urban planning blog ). Transforming Cities: Special edition o...