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Thursday, 21 April 2011

A league table of press complaints

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The Press Complaints Commission publishes annual reports summarising the number of complaints it receives and how it deals with them [1]. F...
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Who poses the most danger to pedestrians in Britain?

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Source: Table 23c here . Possible follow-up: Who does the media treat as the greatest danger to pedestrians?
Thursday, 7 April 2011

Hard times

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I've been reading ' Poverty and place in Britain, 1968-99 ', by Fahmy, Gordon, Dorling, Rigby and Wheeler. You'll need an ac...
Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Chart of the day: Unmet demand for cycling in Southwark

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Over the last five years, Southwark council has carried out surveys into the travel habits and preferences of pupils in 89 of its 111 school...
Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Urban myths and the misuse of urban data

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Following up my post about the mismeasurement of urbanisation in Egypt, I would highly recommend anyone interested in this area to read Dav...
Monday, 28 March 2011

Game theory and the risks of cycling vs driving

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I've been reading Richard Tay's short article from 2002 on " The Prisoner's Dilemma and Vehicle Safety ". Tay uses gam...
Saturday, 26 March 2011

20mph zones and congestion in London

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Cyclists in the City report that the City of London is considering introducing a 20mph zone. This could be transformative if it goes ahead,...
Thursday, 17 March 2011

Over-elastic housing supply

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What with all the complaining that people like me do about there not being enough new house building to keep up with demand, it is easy to f...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Ed Glaeser at the LSE

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Ed Glaeser spoke at LSE on Monday night as part of a tour plugging his new book, Triumph of the City. With his slightly ship's-captainy ...
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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