Category: Maps

World City Population Map Update with the New World Urbanization Prospects 2025

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The interactive map of world city populations – https://luminocity3d.org/WorldCity/ – has been updated with the newest release of the UN World Urbanization Prospects (WUP), the leading dataset for understanding global urban dynamics. The new UN WUP 2025 release supersedes the 2018 version. It’s a major revision with updated demographic data a new harmonised methodology for … Continue reading World City Population Map Update with the New World Urbanization Prospects 2025 →

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comparative urbanism, global cities, mapping, Maps, Population Change, spatial analysis, visualisation

Imagination and Collaboration

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In 2018 Oliver Uberti and I had the honour of receiving the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography. What follows is an adaptation of our acceptance speech from the 2018 NACIS Annual Meeting in Norfolk, Virginia. To read the article in Cartographic Perspectives and for referencing information click here. IMAGINATION Oliver: Good evening. In preparing…

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Articles, award, Collaboration, Maps, nacis, visualisation

How the Victorians Mapped London’s Cholera

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It is, of course, John Snow who is credited with using maps to demonstrate that the clusters of deaths from cholera in London’s Soho during London’s 1854 outbreak were caused by contaminated water. This marked a major shift in thinking away from the disease being transmitted through dirty air: the more widely accepted theory at […]

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Cholera, Farr, John Snow, london, Maps, Slideshow, victorian london, visualisation

Joy Division, Population Surfaces and Pioneering Electronic Cartography

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There has been a resurgence of interest in data visualizations inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover. These so-called “Joy Plots” are easier to create thanks to the development of the “ggjoy” R package and also some nice code posted using D3. I produced a global population map (details here) using a similar technique in 2013 and since […]

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animation use, electronic cartography, harvard lab, joy plots, Maps, population, Resources, spatial analysis, visualisation

My Year in Maps

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Lots happened in 2016 to keep cartographers busy…here are some of my highlights (in no particular order).   Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line at the British Library is an absolutely extraordinary exhibition at the British Library. The breadth and quality of maps on display is amazing. (Inspired by the exhibition, I am giving a […]

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2016 in maps, Data Visualisation, Maps, Slideshow, visualisation

Living Maps Review launched today

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Living Maps review is a new online journal about maps, map making and thinking of mapping (I’m on the editorial board of the journal). As the launch email describes: “map making as a democratic medium for visual artists, writers, social  researchers and community activists. The journal has its roots in the highly successful series of … Continue reading Living Maps Review launched today

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Cartography, Critical Cartography, critical GIS, GIS, Living Maps, Maps, VGI

Mapped: British, Spanish and Dutch Shipping 1750-1800

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I recently stumbled upon a fascinating dataset which contains digitised information from the log books of ships (mostly from Britain, France, Spain and The Netherlands) sailing between 1750 and 1850. The creation of this dataset was completed as part of the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans 1750-1850 (CLIWOC) project. The routes are plotted from the …

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Featured Maps, ggplot2, map, Maps, maptools, R, R Spatial Tips, visualisation

The Power of Comparison: Just How Big Is It?

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  If I said a country was 1594719800 metres squared it would mean a lot less to you than if I said it was about the size of Greater London (so long as you know about how big Greater London is). For this reason the media tend to report the extent of a flood in …

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comparison, Featured Maps, how big is it, infographic, london, Maps, Resources, size of wales, subway, tokyo, visualisation

Finnish Municipalities: A case for zone design?

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In Finland, municipalities are incredibly powerful; like local authorities in the UK, municipalities are responsible for local administration, but they also levy an income tax and are responsible for providing most public services. Municipalities were founded on the assumption of equality, which forms the basis for the reform considerations currently ongoing in the Finnish government. […]

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algorithm, finland, Geography, GIS, Maps, Modeling, municipal, pysal, python, zone design

Keynote at Urban Studies conference – Univ. of Amsterdam

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Pablo Mateos gave a keynote talk at a conference on Urban Studies at the the University of Amsterdam The conference title was “The Essence of the Urban”, and it attempted to discuss questions about scholarly questions emanating from the changing form … Continue reading →

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amsterdam, innovative, Maps, methods, migration, mobility, multidisciplinary, segregation, Talks and presentations, urban, urban studies

Media coverage

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My own research and/or the projects in which I have worked with others at UCL Geography and CASA have gained attention through the following media features: Selected media features 2006-2008 2008  ‘Website maps surnames worldwide” BBC News, 30 Aug http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7588968.stm … Continue reading →

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BBC News, global, Maps, media, name frequencies, names, News, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, worldnames