There are benefits to viewing Europe as a collection of cities and regions rather than as a group of nation states

Should we conceive of Europe as a collection of individual states or as a group of distinct cities and regions which are part of a larger whole? Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig present figures from their new ‘Social Atlas of Europe’, which provides a new way of illustrating the key social and geographic features across European countries. They argue that by viewing Europe in this way it becomes apparent that most of the real social divides across the continent are within states rather than between them.

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Policy Press: The social atlas of Europe, 2014 http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781447313533

Blog: EU ROPE, 12.08.14: A country called Europe? http://eu-rope.ideasoneurope.eu/2014/08/12/a-country-called-europe/

Blog: LSE EuroppBlog, 09.05.17: An atlas with a positive message for a European people united in diversity http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/05/09/human-atlas-of-europe-united-in-diversity/

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