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A wide range of indicators like wages, patents, and R&D employment increase with the population of cities. This behaviour is often referred to as urban scaling. The interesting aspect of urban scaling is that it does not follow a straight line, but rather increases exponentially. This acceleration is similar to compound interest. In some cases, […]
We have recently some additional daytime population data to ukcrimestats. We already had it for lower layer super output area and now have it for constituencies and some subdivisions. If you want an example of why this matters, take this example of Manchester City Centre ward, which has a 5 times greater population in the […]
Ok, we’ve done it. It took longer than usual because we had new 5 new crime types to build into the database. These are; Theft-shoplifting Drugs Criminal Damage and Arson Public Disorder and Weapons Theft-Other As you’ll see from our main chart below, we have added these under the Other category (from whence they came) […]
We recently gave an exclusive to Planning in London magazine that showed crime and ASB events in London from December 2010 to July 2011. You will not find this anywhere else. Planning in London is the journal of the London Planning and Development Forum and a winning magazine of the year for the International Building […]
I’ve just run a quick search on UKCrimeStats and thought I’d post up these links in light of the distressing events from last night in Tottenham not least 49 fires started by rioters. Here is a link to crime in the Tottenham Constituency, of which David Lammy is MP and is in the worst […]
Are MPs responsible for crime or the lack thereof in their constituencies? Of course not. But we know they’re very interested in it and many people identify more closely with their constituency than their Police Neighbourhood. These are a sometimes arbitrary administrative division, the boundaries of which are yet to be released and have since […]