Towards a name for each town
Obviously, each town has a name. But in a system of grid-based urban/rural classifications, towns are defined as clusters of 1 km² grid cells. These grid-based towns do not have any a-priori name. Still, providing names to these units can be useful to facilitate...Read articleA walk to the park?
An updated working paper presents a methodology that takes into account the spatial distribution of both population and green areas throughout the cities’ territory, and produces indicators on the proximity of the green areas to the urban population. To obtain...Read articleState of European Cities Report 2016 published
In partnership with UN Habitat, the U.N. programme working towards a better urban future, the European Commission released the State of European Cities Report 2016. It supports the Urban Agenda by assessing the performance of European cities with regards to its...Read articleNew Global Human Settlement Layer website and report
The Global Human Settlement Layer project of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has a new website: http://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ It features the “Atlas of the Human Planet”, presenting the key findings of the analysis of the Global Human...Read articleUrban Data Platform online
The new Urban Data Platform, developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in close co-operation with DG Regional and Urban Policy, is now online: http://urban.jrc.ec.europa.eu This tool allows the interactive discovery – via maps and...Read articleFrom rail timetables to regional and urban indicators on rail passenger services
An analysis of rail passenger services in Europe, focusing on regional and urban indicators.
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