Here is the Webinar Presentation on the Population Reference Bureau’s (PRB) 2012 World Population Data Sheet. This year, the report focuses on three main topics: (1) aging developed countries, (2) rapid population growth in less developed countries and (3) epidemiological transition - i.e. the increased global prevalence of non-communicable diseases.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Replay: The rise and fall of Urban Sociology (?)
Google has scanned 15 million books originally published from 1800 on. And they have also developed the Google Books Ngram Viewer. It's a tool that charts the usage of any word over time in literature and other books (Google books database). One could irresponsibly use it as a proxy for the popularity of words in literature. And I did!
This chart above shows how often "Urban Sociology" has appeared in the literature (Google database - english literature only) since 1800. It looks to me that the Chicago School have had played an important role in the rising 'popularity' of Urban Sociology*. And it looks that Urban Sociology is not as 'popular' as it used to be....
*obviously, it would be necessary to scrutinize other keywords to conclude this (such as the major researchers in the first Chicago School)
And here are some queries of other keywords of interest:
- Aging Population; Demographic Transition; Demography related words; urban mobility, housing bubble, 'Great Cities' as urban hierarchy (?), Space Syntax, GIS, urban, regional and environmental studies, urban and rural, etc.
And my favorites:
Traffic Jam:
Urban sprawl, compact city, smart city, smart growth, compact growth, New Urbanism.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Assorted Links
- Brazil facts (via MR)
- The Geography of James Bond
- 10 cities where homes cost less than a car (via The Drunkeynesian)
- Seven Minutes of Terror, or how hard it was to land on Mars
- book: Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability
- The new Schwartnegger Institute on State and Global Policy. (via Lisa Schweitzer) Funny to know that he is 'concerned with the future'.
- Child mortality in Africa
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[Image Credit: The Economist]
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Global Labor Force
The McKinsey Global Institute has published a comprehensive report on global labor market and labor force supply. It includes a forecast of labor force supply and demand through 2030 and tackles several issues such as labor productivity, population aging and educational attainment.
(ht Fabiano Pompermayer)
No blue skies for Brazil.
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- You may listen to a 8-minute summary of the report here.
- A brief paper we have published this year analysing labor force perspectives in Brazil [in Portuguese only]
- Interactive chart showing the distribution of different 'analytical talents' among industry groups in the US - Talent Gap by McKinsey
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
The world's shifting centre of gravity
Few weeks ago, The Economist magazine published a short piece on the world's shifting centre of gravity*. The map is based on this study by the McKinsey Global Institute.
According to the study, "the centre is rapidly shifting east—at a speed of 140 kilometres a year and thus faster than ever before in human history". As you have already guessed, the main reason for this is rapid urbanisation in developing countries, in particular China.
*The global center of gravity is calculated weighting the approximate centre of landmass of the world by countries' GDPs.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Assorted Links
- Future of Geospatial Technology According to Google
- Satellite View of City Growth, in GIFs (HT Leo)
- What Went Wrong in Bolivia’s Water Sector?
- Moscow in the 1930s (via PD Smith)
- The Slime Mold strikes again! now in Tokyo
- A tube map of life expectancy
- How the West Was Lost By Native Americans (via Eddie)
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