MetaFilter posts tagged with demography

Can you find your dot?

hat_eater — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:20:16 -0800

Census Dotmap is the visual representation of all persons counted in the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses (via).

NYC is now More Diverse Than LA

cell divide — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:59:34 -0800

New York City Wrests Title of "Most Diverse US City" from Los Angeles

Wolves, neo-Nazis and Germanys population crash

stbalbach — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:54:45 -0800

Due to population decline, Detroit plans on bulldozing roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city into semi-rural farmland. It is a worst case scenario in America, but pales to the problem of Eastern Germany, where demographic collapse in some towns is so severe, urban-wolves and neo-Nazis are the new order of the day. The mayor of one town says: "You can't go into the forest without a knife anymore." More on Eastern Germany demographic collapse: *As East Germany Rusts, Young Workers Leave *In Eastern Germany, An Exodus of Young Women" *Slow death of a small German town as women pack up and head west *No Brakes on Germany's Population Freefall Concept for post from chapter 11 of Fred Pearce's book The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planets Surprising Future (2010)

It's the Demography, Stupid

shivohum — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:49:09 -0800

It's the demography, stupid: "The design flaw of the secular social-democratic state is that it requires a religious-society birth rate to sustain it. ... Which the smarter Islamists have figured out. They know they can never win on the battlefield, but they figure there’s an excellent chance they can drag things out until western civilization collapses in on itself and Islam inherits by default."

Philly in 3-D

luriete — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:11:04 -0800

Is a "virtual" Philly even better than the real thing? Well, GeoSim Systems thinks so. Except for the aroma of freshly-grilled cheesesteak, at least. Their "Virtual Philadelphia" is the most detailed urban imaging system I've seen yet, and you can read about the monumental process of turning photographic images (taken from both aircraft and street-level) into this incredible rendering in a February 17 NY Times article (reg req). And - as expected - Google wants to get in on the action and do the same thing in San Francisco. via BB

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

LarryC — Sun, 29 May 2005 13:00:53 -0800

Sweeping out the Plains: "The great wave of population, which swept homesteaders onto the Northern Great Plains with the promise of free land and hope for a bright future around the turn of the last century, is sweeping back out again at the beginning of this one." This map of counties with 10% or more population loss in the last 20 years really highlights the phenomenon. A shorter version of this piece published in todays KC Star. (See also Endangered Historic Places: Prairie Churches.)