Termites and the megalopolis
A recently published study in Current Biology has shown that a species of termites has been colonising a huge area of Brazil – its surface is equivalent to that of Great Britain- in the past...
Category: Geography
Can cities’ network position explain the probability of violent conflict?
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...
Measuring cities’ fragility: an interactive mapping tool.
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...
Transitflow: visualizing public transport routes in space and time
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...
International Land Use Symposium (ILUS) 2017 – Use of spatial modelling and data visualisation to enlighten future sustainable policy making
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...
Données Urbaines 7
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...
Map of the world of the most popular requests on internet 2013
By Jaume Serra published in the “Courrier international” of January 2nd 2014
ORBIS: the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
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...
Art and Geography
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...
When Networks Network
The magazine Science underline the huge advance made in network analysis. Networks interact, create cascading effects…… read more in Science
Dissection of cities
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...
Remote sensing tracks relentless urban spread
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...
New Blog for the ERC project GeoDiverCity
http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/
Africapolis
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...
Physical proximity plays a big role in terms of building relationships
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/technology/05ping.html?_r=2 Grubwithus Organizes Dinners – Social, Minus Media – NYTimes.com, june 4th 2011
Your movements tracked by your IPhone
if you want your own movement (available on your MAC), download the application
Gapminder
The Graphic Show of the World development evolution…… Gapminder Website