Weeks Population

The urban transition has been one of the most important changes taking place in the context of the overall demographic transition of the pa...

I happen to really like 3D maps. I think that they are terrific visualization tools, and so I was very pleased when Todd Gardner pointed us ...

This week's Economist has a very nice summary of the global trends in suicide (or "intentional self-harm" as it is known in t...

Voters in San Francisco today will decide the fate of a local proposition aimed at coping with the growing number of homeless persons in tha...

Thanks to Meredith Gerhardt for linking me to a great source of data about communities in the U.S., based on a compilation of data largely d...

I spend a lot of time at the beginning of my chapter on "The Urban Transition" on the ways in which "urban" is defined a...

Thanks to Todd Gardner for the link to a report released today from the UN Population Division detailing their new projections of the urban...

Philippe Bocquier and Sandra Bree have just published an article in Demographic Research that takes us back to 19th century France in searc...

This coming Friday, the Geography Department at San Diego State University will be hosting one of its illustrious alums-- Dr. Debbie Fugate ...

William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution (and also a long-time Research Professor at the University of Michigan) has writt...

Yesterday's NYTimes had a lengthy story about neighborhoods of migrant workers in Beijing being destroyed by the government [see the ph...

This week's Economist has a very interesting story about the spatial variability in (already low) fertility in China. Sadly, it starts ...

My first teaching job many years ago was at Michigan State University. It seemed to me and my wife that every one of the "locals" ...

Who lives in Houston? A lot of people, to be sure, but until Hurricane Harvey hit, the city's demographics were not a regular topic of c...

Thanks to Tom Boswell for pointing me to an Op-Ed in today's Miami Herald by Justin Stoler and Tanya Zakrison. They build on a research...

As I write this, voters are at the polls in Iran for the presidential election there. The Economist's description of the supporters of ...

On Sunday the voters in Turkey narrowly (and controversially) decided to hand President Erdogan more power than he already has. The "ye...

It seems obvious that those with higher incomes can afford more and better health care and thus will have a higher life expectancy. But we t...

Thanks to Justin Stoler for pointing me to an urban demography article in today's NYTimes about the declining number of children in San...

Humans have a natural sense of place and we tend to define ourselves at least partly by where we live. But how do we define the boundaries o...