Public Life Prediction Map

The above map predicts the public life in the active city center of medium sized cities using public life data collected in 19 European cities with a total of 112 622 people counted. The predictions are applicable for summers weekdays. If you want to understand whether your city is below, above or equal to the predicted public life in this map, I suggest you count both on a Tuesday and a Friday. If your city is above the predicted amount of people – congratulations for likely living in a healthy city.

The gray mass represent the city boundaries. The Orange area represents the denser part of the city, characterized by apartment buildings. The red area is what I call the active city center – the part of the city center where the bottom floors are active with stores, restaurants and workplaces.

The map does not take into account for tourism, thus, Mediterranean cities are likely to score well above the predicted value.

The collected data used to create this map can be found here, here, here and here. All data collected during weekdays in July 2018 and 2019.

The map itself is created with Python scripting and QGIS.