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Monday, 17 December 2012

Car ownership is falling in London but car traffic is falling even faster

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The last couple of weeks have seen some interesting figures confirming the decline of car culture in London. First, the 2011 Census results ...
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

What do homeowners have a stake in?

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Today's Census figures showing a fall in home ownership have excited plenty of comment about the struggles of so many people to get on ...
Monday, 3 December 2012

A few notes on getting Britain cycling

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The All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group is holding an inquiry into how 'Get Britain Cycling' and they want evidence by the 5th, so...
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Saturday, 24 November 2012

Map of 2001-2011 population change in London

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Update : Those intelligent people in the Intelligence team at the Greater London Authority have now made a better map of population change...
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Thursday, 1 November 2012

The gender dimension of road danger

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This BBC article  about 'black box' devices in cars which monitor your driving for insurance purposes features lots of standard-issu...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Urban expansion: learning from 19th century London

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Paul Collier says that African cities should learn from the example of 19th century London when it comes to housing policy. London was abl...
Sunday, 14 October 2012

If you like your neighbourhood so much then let more people live there

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Matt Yglesias has an excellent post here about the lovely city of Santa Monica, which prides itself on its greenness yet has seen barely an...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012

A land value tax would be unpopular for the same reasons that it would be great

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I was surprised a while back to find that the Liberal Democrat conference policy paper on housing included a call for a land value tax (LVT...
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

We choose how congested our roads are

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This BBC article about traffic congestion in Sao Paulo carries on like 180km traffic jams are an inescapable fact of life there and congest...
Monday, 24 September 2012

Mapping pedestrian casualties in London

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The Department for Transport publish full data on recorded road casualties on data.gov.uk , and I've been playing around with the data ...
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