Friday, August 31, 2018

New paper out: Transport legacy of mega-events and the redistribution of accessibility to urban destinations

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I'm glad to share that the 2nd paper of my thesis is now published. It will remain open access for the next 50 days.  Downloaded it...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

This is how the future of urban transportation will look like

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This is true. If this prediction turns out to be wrong in 200 years, I will personally stop writing/editing this blog. cartoon by  An...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

The geography of Manhattan distorted by travel-times

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The figure below was created by  Stefan Musch  from Gradient Metrics  (hat tip  Jean Legrand ). The figure was created using R and ggplot2 ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

The urban landscape of Hong Kong

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Johnny Harris  (Vox) has filmed a great series of short-videos that helps us understand the urban landscape of Hong Kong. In one of these v...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Urban Picture

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Barcelona at day and night, by the talented Henry Do  (ht Architecture )
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Assorted R Packages for Spatial Analysis

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RgeoProfile  is an R package for carrying out geographic profiling - a technique derived from criminology that uses the spatial locations ...
Monday, August 6, 2018

When you lie in your CV but still get the job

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HT Daniel P. Sobreira. Image credit: ?
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

PhD Thesis submitted !

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After  4 years, 9 months and 18 days  quite some time, I have finally submitted my thesis to the Examination School of Oxford University. T...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Mapping the diversity of population ageing across Europe with a ternary colour scheme

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Ilya Kashnitsky  and  Jonas Schöley  have recently published this correspondence in The Lancet where they show a very clever way to visuali...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Tuk Tuk Uber

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While I was in  Dar es Salaam  a few weeks ago,  Manuel Santana  drew my attention to these three-wheeler tuk tuks with "Uber" wr...