Bulawayo
Commons
QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING

Research.

Studies, reports, and datasets from our community, finished and under way.

Propose research

Index

EVERYTHING WE ARE WORKING ON
03 ENTRIES

Studies

  1. Study

    What makes a high-trust city, and can Bulawayo become one?

    The elements of a high-trust society, with examples from cities that have them, and where Bulawayo starts.

  2. Study

    Why do people litter, and what would change it?

    Why the city centre is littered again by afternoon, what has been shown to change that, and what we can lawfully do about it.

  3. Study

    The public image of our city shapes how the world treats us

    What a city's image costs its people, what Bulawayo looks like online today, and what residents can do about it.

01 ENTRY

Datasets

  1. Dataset

    Bulawayo by-laws and fines index

    Every by-law the City of Bulawayo publishes, with its statutory instrument number and link, plus the council's deposit fines by offence and the 2023 national fines scale in US dollars. Built from the council's own documents.

    CSV, 3 files193 rows17 KB zip, 92 KB unpackedCC BY 4.0Version 1.0, 7 October 2026