When we consider the global network of cities, is instability an inherent property of certain network positions? Dr. Weisi Guo from Cardiff University believes this is the case. He recently co-authored a study in...
Launched in 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos from Igarapé Institute in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, the United Nations University, 100 Resilient Cities, XSeer and Canada’s Global Affairs, fragile cities is an...
Columbia University student Will Geary created an instrument to visualize public transport flows through the 24 hours of the day. For example, below you can see an example of visualization for the San Francisco...
Date: November 1-3 2017 Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe, Dresden, Germany Call for Abstracts (Deadline: 31 July 2017) Suggested topics for English-language presentations can be submitted via the symposium website (http://www.ilus2017.ioer.info). Main Topics: – Big...
Just published: URBAN DATA 7 (Données Urbaines) Decrypting new diverse and massive urban data, this book shows how cities, their governments their inhabitants, their businesses , adapt deeply to all these transformations. The book...
By Jaume Serra published in the “Courrier international” of January 2nd 2014
The system calculates the distance from a city to another one, according to faster path, or lower cost. http://orbis.stanford.edu/ Go to “Mapping ORBIS”, It draws the path and create many different maps and graphs...
Three years ago, a friend of mine who is a genius artist (Catherine Bolle), asked me to do geography on her biography. She told me many things about her life, during some few sundays...
The magazine Science underline the huge advance made in network analysis. Networks interact, create cascading effects…… read more in Science
I don’t know what we can learn from the physical dissection of cities: maybe some fractal analysis could work? see the website Berlin: New York City: and other cities in the website (made by...
Looking back through the decades, these snapshots from space — created exclusively for CNN by NASA’s Landsat department in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey — reveal the impact of the vast population shift...
http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/
Atlas of African cities on Google Earth (of course you must have already downloaded Google Earth): Website Click on Display Africapolis data in Google Earth and then you access to many information from the...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/technology/05ping.html?_r=2 Grubwithus Organizes Dinners – Social, Minus Media – NYTimes.com, june 4th 2011
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The Graphic Show of the World development evolution…… Gapminder Website