How many colours would you need to make London’s bus network more comprehensible?
Looking at Transport for London’s colour-coded bus trial in Barkingside, CityMetric editor Jonn Elledge found an interesting problem: Even…
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“The City & the City & the Squirtle”: What can China Miéville teach us about Pokemon Go?
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ByFrom Titan's Doom Mons to Mercury's Pourquoi-Pas: how did the landscape of space get its names?
The Ordnance Survey recently made a very nice map of Mars’ Arabia Terra region. This map shows an alien…
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