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Curated tours
Guided routes through the atlas, curated stop by stop — a way in when you don't yet know what you're looking for.
A tour is a reading order, and the order is the argument: which entries, in which sequence, and one line at every stop saying what it changes about the one before. Where you want the complete set instead of a selection — every failure, every evidence grade, every operator — that is what the track record is for, and the topic guides explain the subjects themselves.
Where to start
Two ways into a corpus of more than a thousand entries when you don't yet know what you're looking for.
How it turns out
Routes read from the far end: what the record says happened after the ribbon was cut.
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Failed & Instructive
6 stops · 6 cities · 6 countries · 2012–2021 · 3 graded independent or peer-reviewed · 6 failed or scaled back
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
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Coming to Life
5 stops · 5 cities · 4 countries · 2021–2025 · 1 failed or scaled back
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
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When someone else does the maths
8 stops · 8 cities · 7 countries · 1989–2019 · 6 graded independent or peer-reviewed
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
One mechanism, many cities
The same idea followed across borders, so the differences are the argument.
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AI in Action
6 stops · 6 cities · 6 countries · 2012–2026
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
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Small Towns, Big Ideas
5 stops · 5 cities · 3 countries · 2015–2025 · 1 graded independent or peer-reviewed
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
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Leapfrog Cities
8 stops · 8 cities · 8 countries · 2012–2026 · 2 graded independent or peer-reviewed
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
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From city card to bank card
7 stops · 7 cities · 7 countries · 1997–2025 · 2 graded independent or peer-reviewed · 1 failed or scaled back
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
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Who is allowed to watch?
7 stops · 7 cities · 7 countries · 2009–2019 · 5 graded independent or peer-reviewed · 2 failed or scaled back
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
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Running out of water
7 stops · 7 cities · 5 countries · 1993–2024 · 4 graded independent or peer-reviewed · 1 failed or scaled back
Take the tour →Route last checked August 2026
