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• Transportation and regional inequality: the impact of railways in the Nordic countries, 1860-1960 

  Enflo, Kerstin; Alvarez Palau, Eduard; Martí Henneberg, Jordi (Elsevier, 2018)

  Before industrialisation the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) were part of Europe's poor periphery, but over the last century these countries have become some of the richest in the world. This article ...

• Spatial inequalities in infant survival at an early stage of the longevity revolution: A pan-European view across 5000+ regions and localities in 1910 

  Martí Henneberg, Jordi; Devos, Isabelle; Ekamper, Peter; Gregory, Ian N.; Gruber, Siegfried; Poppel, Frans van; Espinha da Silveira, Luís; Solli, Arne; Klüsener, Sebastian (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2014)

  BACKGROUND: Spatial inequalities in human development are of great concern to international organisations and national governments. Demographic indicators like the infant mortality rate are important measures for determining ...

• Urban Growth and Long-Term Transformations in Spanish Cities Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Methodology to Determine Changes in Urban Density. 

  Alvarez Palau, Eduard; Martí Henneberg, Jordi; Solanas, Jorge (MDPI, 2019-12-15)

  The current work models urban growth in the continuous built-up areas of 47 Spanish cities from the mid-nineteenth century through to the present day. We did this by compiling a comprehensive Geographic Information System ...