fakeisthenewreal + history->demography   17

Deaths in Iraq Pixelated | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
One pixel per death, colored by category (US, civilian, "enemy"), in order.
visualization  war  death  history->demography 
november 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Trading Places by Alan Ehrenhalt - New Republic
"Demographic inversion" proposed as replacement term for gentrification. Question of depth/width/length of the trend. By ed. of Governing mag. Imprecise about inner city vs downtown an what exactly Jane Jacobs wrote.
history->demography  urban  planning  chicago  usa  housing  neighborhoods  gentrification  future  policy 
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Berkeley/Penn Urban & Environmental Modeler's Datakit
"The Berkeley/Penn Urban and Environmental Modeler’s Datakit consists of a series of ... shapefiles and grids describing many of the physical, administrative, transportation, demographic, economic, land use and land cover, and environmental characterist
gis  mapping  history->demography 
february 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Is Los Angeles denser than New York?
'Though true that the [Greater] LA urbanized area has a greater density than the [Greater] New York urbanized area, the LA urbanized area is half the size of New York’s" — NYC + 8 suburban counties has nearly 2x the density of LA.
urban  nyc  la  density  history->demography  d-d-d-damn  demography 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale | The Register
US Military running world simulations. Of smaller, country-level sims: "US Army using SEAS to identify potential recruits."
sim  military  military-industrial  viatrmd  usa  war  world  news  history->demography 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
demography.matters.blog
Thesis seems to be: "So this is in fact all about demographics."
history->demography  demography  economics  blog 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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