Will Geary’s experimental TransitFlow tools help visualise the flow of buses and metros as colourful ant-like particles flowing across world cities

Transport maps distort a city’s true geography to strike a balance between readability and design. Scroll down to see how six metro maps compare to the real picture on the ground

The economic fates of diverse cities such as San Francisco, New York and Detroit would seem to be vastly different – but they share a common thread

How do ships safely navigate the San Francisco Bay? In his latest data viz roundup, Max Galka gives a guided tour of the Bay’s marine traffic, tracks trees in major cities, and maps the US based on the flow of its commuters

In his latest data viz roundup, Max Galka traces history’s largest cities, explores the great Uber takeover and searches for America’s creative communities

The Big Apple generates more than 14 million tonnes of rubbish a year, and spends around $2.3bn disposing of it – sometimes 7,000 miles away in China. Max Galka counts the costs of a city literally built on trash

In his latest round-up of urban data visualisations, Max Galka reduces English and Welsh commuters to animated dots, reimagines New York as a video game, and explores Lisbon with the ‘graffiti grannies’

Researchers in Germany have turned GPS data from three major world bike share programmes into living, breathing visualisations of the cities themselves

When Ben Wellington crunched freely available parking data for New York City, he uncovered thousands of tickets issued to vehicles that were legally parked. Max Galka reports on this and other revealing uses of data in our cities