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barbara speed
Today's forced eviction at Sweets Way could include the estate's last disabled resident
This morning, at around 8am, the occupiers, squatters and remaining residents at the Sweets Way estate in Barnet, north London, woke to…
Where could London build more housing? The city's population density black holes, mapped
As you may have realised by now, we need to build a lot more houses. In London alone, it’s estimated…
Facebook users helped a woman count the number of Tube platforms for her train-obsessed son
There’s a small chance that, as a committed reader of CityMetric, you occasionally think we write about metros a little too much.…
Jeremy Corbyn's women-only carriages: the arguments for and against
Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn made waves today with the announcement that he would consider carrying out a consultation on maybe introducing women-only carriages…
RMT warns that night services could make the Tube dirtier
As you may have heard, there’s a Tube strike on in London this week. The strike, among both drivers and other…
Much of the affordable housing could be banished from Battersea Power Station
In a tale which may not be as old as time, but is at least as old as London’s housing…
At the Sweets Way show home, activists are standing up to developers using hammers and paintbrushes
The Sweets Way estate is an eerie place to visit. In the surrounding suburbs of Totteridge and Whetstone, families wander…
Tehran's murals tell the story of Iran's political history
Over the past 50 years, Iran has weathered both a revolution and the Iran-Iraq war, one of the longest conflicts…
The giant earthquake that's coming for Seattle
If you’ve ever been to Seattle, you’ll know that it’s a pretty chilled-out place. No one is expecting an earthquake, at least not imminently.
The Archway story: how to gentrify your neighbourhood, in 5 easy steps
When I told a native Londoner that I was moving to Archway two years ago, they repsonded with an unusual…