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January 2026

3 items published.

Urban Data Science & Methods · 2Governance, Policy & Finance · 1Urban Society & Demography · 1Urban & Regional Economy · 1
Think-tank report Europe Open

Cities Outlook 2026

Centre for Cities · Cities Outlook (annual)

The 19th annual health check of 63 UK cities covers productivity, housing, skills and employment, with a 2026 focus on how disposable incomes and deprivation vary across urban Britain.

Journal article Global / multi-region Open

Street View Imagery Analysis in a Computational Notebook

REGION (ERSA) · REGION 13(1): 43–60

A hands-on methods chapter showing how to download street view images and apply deep convolutional networks to detect and measure features of the built environment, in a reproducible notebook.

Journal article Global / multi-region

Learning street view representations based on a spatiotemporal contrastive learning framework

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems · Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 125, 102393

Benchmarks representation-learning strategies for street view imagery and introduces a spatiotemporal contrastive framework to learn features useful for perception and socioeconomic prediction tasks.