{"id":1677,"date":"2014-07-02T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:30","slug":"cities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/07\/02\/cities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwc.com\/us\/en\/cities-of-opportunity\/urban-demographics\/index.jhtml\">\u00a0Cities of Opportunity <\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper.\u00a0 Covers 30 major cities worldwide. \u00a0It includes quantitative data on population and affordability as well as qualitative findings on what city dwellers want.<\/p>\n<p>Other useful city data sources include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the UK \u2013 \u00a0try data and reports from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centreforcities.org\/\"> Centre for Cities<\/a>. Their flagship publication \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centreforcities.org\/research\/outlook14.html\">Cities Outlook 2014-\u00a0<\/a>is an annual report on economic prospects covers 64 of the largest towns and cities in the UK.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imercer.com\/products\/2014\/quality-of-living.aspx\">Mercer Quality of Living Index<\/a><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>is a ranking of quality of life and personal safety for the top 50 cities worldwide, summaries available free of charge online.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/labs.lsecities.net\/m\/browsehappy\/\">European Metromonitor project \u2013 LSE Cities\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Interesting site which enables you to examine and compare the impact of the financial crisis on individual European cities.\u00a0 Note you may have to download the latest version of your browser to view this!\u00a0 It has an interactive map of statistical data on\u00a0economic output and employment in 150 of Europe\u2019s largest metropolitan economies, from 1995 to 2012.\u00a0 It allows cross comparison of the impact on different EU nations and between city and other regions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu\/statistics_explained\/index.php\/Statistics_on_European_cities\">Eurostat\u00a0<\/a>also has EU city data.<\/li>\n<li>UNHabitat is the main United Nations body for this area.\u00a0 Its key publications a wide range of topics ranging from urban infrastructure and sanitation, affordability of housing, urban development and social exclusion.\u00a0 They include <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.unhabitat.org\/pmss\/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3528\">The State of African Cities<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.unhabitat.org\/pmss\/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3387\">The\u00a0State of the World\u2019s Cities<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 It also supports the <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlex.unhabitat.org\/\">Urban Lex<\/a> urban law database\u00a0which covers urban planning, development and finance policies and legislation worldwide and the <a href=\"http:\/\/unhabitat.org\/urban-knowledge-2\/global-urban-observatory-guo\/\">Global Urban Observatory<\/a> which has some GIS data relating to sustainability and development in cities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Cities of Opportunity \u00a0Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper.\u00a0 Covers 30 major cities worldwide. \u00a0It includes quantitative data on population and affordability as well as qualitative findings on what city dwellers want. Other useful city data sources include: For the UK \u2013 \u00a0try data and reports from the Centre for Cities. 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