Urban Demographics

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Danny Cooke has used a drone to give a bird's eye view of Pripyat (Ukraine), a beautiful and sad footage of the remains of a ghost to...

The team at geOps have used  GTFS feeds  to create an incredible real-time map of 202 transit systems around the world (mostly USA and Eu...

Bradley Voytek writes about what a a neuroscientist is doing at Uber* (ht MR ).  In short, Voytek is finding network patterns, mapping di...

Man is born free, but everywhere he is checking work-related email. — Werner Twertzog (@WernerTwertzog) November 23, 2014 Soundtrack f...

Furtado, B. A. (2011). Neighbourhoods in urban economics: incorporating cognitively perceived urban space in economic models . Urban Studi...

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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...

Epic Extreme commute: From New Zealand to rural Iceland !(ht Vanessa Nadalin ) The economics of population imbalance The paradox of Spa...

David Levinson points out to this great presentation by Kevin Webb talking about Modeling Transport accessibility with open data. Kevin ...