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The streets of Bucharest: How road behaviour correlates with trust in government
Editor’s note: We added a few paragraphs to the end of this story at 23:25hrs, after readers pointed out some…
“A quarter of voters can't even name their council”: Does localism have an accountability problem?
British politics looks set to become increasingly local, as chancellor George Osborne’s localism agenda continues to push ahead. In April,…
"Maps that fight the mafia": How Italy is leading the way in collaborative mapping initiatives
In Europe today, there are many communities of developers, urban planners and other experts using open data to map their…
Where are England's most deprived communities?
Last month, the Department for Communities & Local Government published the latest version of its English Indices of Deprivation including…
How do population projections work?
“Britain’s population set to grow by TWICE as much as the rest of Europe combined”, the Daily Express screamed a…
A trip round Vilnius and Riga shows the other side of Britain's debates over immigration and EU membership
Emus of the world, unite! Welcome to Lithuania, which along with Latvia and Estonia makes up the Baltic states. It…
Cities are great, for good left-wing reasons
A few weeks ago, we published the first of a new column, by the people behind the “Critical Cities” books,…
Want to make London housing affordable again? Let's try closing every Tube station in the centre of town
It was approaching midnight on the 5 May 2016, and inside London’s City Hall, Mayor Paxman had just been elected…