This State of the European Cities report is based on the Urban Audit, which now allows a comparison between 322 cities in the European Union (EU) and 47 non-EU cities (5 Croatian, 6 Norwegian, 10 Swiss and 26 Turkish cities). The most recent update of the data collection for 2004 considered in this report is from February 2009. It comprises data for 320 cities from the European Union, 6 Norwegian, 4 Swiss and 26 Turkish cities. Altogether, there is information about 356 cities in the data base analysed in this report.