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How cities are governed is an online platform showcasing the first global Urban Governance Survey, initiated by LSE Cities in partnership with UN-Habitat and UCLG.
The survey results are presented through an interactive visualisation where each coloured dot represents a city. Users can scroll through survey questions, with the dots grouping based on responses. This setup lets users view overall survey trends while identifying individual city results.
Dots can be coloured by world region, population, or city wealth. Selecting a city reveals additional information, and multiple cities can be highlighted for comparison.
A second interactive visualisation, ‘Exploring the Data’, allows users to compare selected survey results in more detail
Details
Dots’ dynamics
Each dot represents a city, when scrolling through the questions all dots are animated to the next position.
Some questions have multiple answers, in these cases multiple dots appear to represent one city
Dots’ colours
Dots can be coloured according to different factors:
- World Region
- Population
- Wealth
This allows the user to find correlations between the given answers and the different factors.