As of this week, CityMetric has been publishing for an entire year. In that time, we’ve published a slightly dizzying 1200 different articles, ranging from lengthy and highbrow academic essays, to lists of stuff we just happened to find funny.
To celebrate, we’ve decided to highlight a few of our favourites. So, here are the best articles we’ve published on London, Britain and the rest of Europe.
London
The week when London’s population finally overtook its previous peak
Barney Stringer
Has any other city in history bounced back from losing two and a quarter million people?
Jonn Elledge
10 ways of visualising London’s growth.
CityMetric staff
These billboards shed light on why people are moving to London – and why others are leaving.
Britain
The Metrolink network, as it stood in 2014. Image: Transport for Greater Manchester.
Manchester Metrolink: six lessons for other cities
Jonn Elledge
Manchester has managed to do something that no other British city has done since London built its tube: created a real network, with all the multi-coloured Beck-style maps that implies. How did it do it?
Frankie Mullin
On Britain’s left, there’s growing talk of a national rent strike.
Everything you know about British train fares is wrong
John Band
The blame for the sky having fallen varies with the publication’s bias. The Guardian blames privatisation and profiteers; the Telegraph blames regulation and bureaucrats. Both are almost entirely wrong.
Trips around Europe
James O’Malley
A trip round Vilnius and Riga shows the other side of Britain’s debates over immigration and EU membership.
In France’s cities, public space risks becoming a women-free zone
Natasha Frost
“I realized that every single terrace that I passed only had men there, who looked at me as if I didn’t belong there. I couldn’t bear it.”
The hole in Bucharest that’s become a nature reserve
Michael Bird
The communists wanted a reservoir. The capitalists wanted a casino. The city got something else entirely.
CityMetric Staff.
In 2002, Warsaw’s mayoral candidates all competed in a game of SimCity – and the future president won.
