MOOC – Healthy Urban Systems Part II
The MOOC – Healthy Urban Systems Part II is now available on Coursera! You will learn to: Dedicated to all levels of disciplines linked to the city, health, the environment, social and human sciences,...
Category: World
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...
The interactive atlas of climate change
The IPCC has recently published their sixth assessment report on the physical evidence of climate change. The report has again confirmed evidence of climate change across all global regions, which will affect rainfall patterns,...
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...
Is urbanization the solution to environmental crisis?
Increasing urbanization is a fact, with more than half of the world’s inhabitants living in cities. Cities are often perceived as a problem, but could they be the solution? A thought-provoking article by Kim...
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: where do we stand?
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020 presents interactive storytelling and data visualizations about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights trends for selected targets within each goal and introduces concepts about how some SDGs...
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...
Readiness and response to Covid-19 crisis: how well have cities reacted?
The Covid-19 pandemic is highly affecting cities because population density favors virus diffusion. Cities are reinventing themselves in order to minimize chances of contagion while staying alive and functioning. A recently released UN-HABITAT platform...
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...
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...
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
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...
Cities’ densities – A comparative approach
Source: London school of economics, 2015
Map of the world of the most popular requests on internet 2013
By Jaume Serra published in the “Courrier international” of January 2nd 2014
An incredible map of which countries e-mail each other, and why?
The Internet was supposed to let us bridge continents and cultures like never before. But after analyzing more than 10 million e-mails from Yahoo! mail, a team of computer researchers noticed an interesting phenomenon: E-mails...
Science Metrix
A website showing the proximities between sciences, between fields, maps of ontologies: http://www.science-metrix.com/OntologyExplorer/#app=cde1&8f8c-selectedIndex=2 http://www.science-metrix.com/OntologyExplorer/#app=cde1&8f8c-selectedIndex=1
Tomorrow’s world
A guide to the next 150 years by BBC news graphics http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world
When Networks Network
The magazine Science underline the huge advance made in network analysis. Networks interact, create cascading effects…… read more in Science
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...