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Monday, 21 February 2011

Cycling in the City of London isn't getting much safer

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Cyclists in the City link to a new report on road safety from the City of London, which for international readers is basically the 'Sq...
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Saturday, 19 February 2011

The mismeasurement of urban Egypt

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The short version of this post is that despite recent reports , urbanisation in Egypt has not gone into reverse in the last 30 years. The E...
Monday, 14 February 2011

London ethnicity map - Now with bigger blobs

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I've been told that the dot-map of London ethnicity  is a bit faint, so here's a version with bigger dots! Click for full size. Th...
Sunday, 13 February 2011

Big differences in attitudes to speeding by age, gender and income

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The Department for Transport have published some fascinating research recently (funded by the previous government, I imagine) which has unfo...
Saturday, 12 February 2011

Quibbling with Ed Glaeser about housing supply in London

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In the course of an interesting interview with The Atlantic on the subject of cities in general and his forthcoming book on cities in parti...
Sunday, 30 January 2011

Who should pay for the New Homes Bonus?

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Inside Housing reports more complaints about the New Homes Bonus (see previous post ), this time from councils in the south east saying tha...

Historic cycling rates in the Netherlands and UK

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I was lucky enough to be at the first meeting of the GB Cycling Embassy in London yesterday, along with people like Jim , ndru and Joe . Th...
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Sunday, 23 January 2011

The growth of 20mph zones in London

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Just to add some numbers to the debate over whether 20mph zones have led to increased cycling levels or not, here is a chart showing the cum...
Saturday, 22 January 2011

Cycling: It's not as simple as 'going Dutch'

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I was involved in a discussion in comments over at Cycalogical about whether cycling campaigners should be more ambitious in pushing for se...
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011

New Homes Bonus and income versus substitution effects

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Planning magazine reports (might require registration) that councils from the North of England have been told they stand to lose out from t...
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