Measuring power relations in Asia
The annual Asia Power Index — launched by the Lowy Institute in 2018 — measures resources and influence to rank the relative power of states in Asia. The project evaluates international power in Asia...
Category: Networks
Handbook on cities and networks
Edited by Zachary P. Neal, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, US and Céline Rozenblat, Professor of Urban Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment,Université de Lausanne, Switzerland Publication Date: 2021 ISBN: 978...
A network analysis of Covid-19 vaccines
The rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines has been underpinned by an intricate web of co-patents, intellectual property agreements and lawsuits. Showing them as a network can be useful to highlight the most relevant nodes...
Mapping Philosophy in the Paris metro
An interesting network interactive vizualization of philosophy where lines and connections are more important than the proximity in the network… follow each line to know more about a philosophical (sometimes literature or artistic) domain...
À contresens- the wrong way- Are electric cars not so green?
Electric cars are increasingly regarded as an interesting option to lower greenhouse emissions and curb pollution, especially in cities. There is often criticism, however, around a number of critical issues that would make electric...
Navigating the supply chain network of strategic resources
The European Union has recently acknowledged the strategic role of a number of critical raw materials that are used in the ICT, energy and defense industry. As a result, the Joint Research Center of...
Tracking public transport in real-time
TRAVIC is a real-time tracker of public transport that allows the user to visualize the movement of trains, buses, trams and boats all over the world. It is based on a master thesis project by Patrick Brosi in...
River maps: coloring the world’s circulatory system
Rivers are fundamentals in creating the right conditions for life: that is why most cities since ancient civilizations were built along their banks. Rivers form intricate networks linking the main branches and their smaller...
Google mobility reports: big data to help fight Covid pandemic
Last week Google has published the “COVID-19 Community Mobility report”. In the context of strict confinement measures, and while some governments (China above all but also Italy, France and Spain) have resorted to mobile...
The cosmic web and a slime mold: network patterns across scales
Is there a relation between a yellow slime organism called Physarum polycephalum, that can be easily found on decaying trees and leaves in the forest’s shade, and the complex organization of galaxies? Researchers Joe...
“L’art trouble, la science rassure” – Bringing art and network analysis together
Kirell Benzi is a data artist, speaker and data visualization lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in Data Science since 2016, which he obtained at EFPL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Building on very heterogeneous...
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...
20 years of network science
This month of June marks the 20th anniversary of the seminal paper by Watts and Strogatz: “Collective dynamics of small world networks” In this article on Nature, author Alessandro Vespignani elaborates on the importance...
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...
Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100 BC to AD 300
An interactive map of urbanism in the Roman world in the imperial period: ALSO OUT NOW: Hanson, J. W., (2016), An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100 BC to AD 300, (Archaeopress)....
Theories and models of urbanization
ERC GeoDiverCity International Workshop Thursday 12th and Friday 13th October 2017 | Paris, France http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/international-workshop/
The Multipolar Regionalization of Cities in Multinational Firms’ Networks
Rozenblat, C., Zaidi, F., & Bellwald, A. (2017). The multipolar regionalization of cities in multinational firms’ networks. Global Networks, 17(2), 171-194. Preprint paper
CCS’15 & CS-DC’15 – Watching again the E-Session on Territorial Intelligence for Multi-level Equity and Sustainability
For those who missed the session Territorial Intelligence for Multi-level Equity and Sustainability, you can visualize online individually each presentation : Denise Pumain, University Paris 1. ERC GeodiverCity (Keynote Speaker – Conference CS-DC) World Urban...
Where people run in major cities
Interestingly…. they prefere parks and river sides :-(((( What a new information!!!! Where People Run
The global flow of people
Explore new estimates of migration flows between and within regions for five-year periods, 1990 to 2010. Click on a region to discover flows country-by-country. by Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel & Ramon Bauer at...