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citymetric staff
Don't build castles without planning permission: a cautionary tale
We all make mistakes. We mess up our tax return. Or we back our car into a bollard. Or, you know,…
The new Star Wars trailer offers definitive proof that Canary Wharf tube station is actually in space
Rogue One is a Star Wars spin off about a bunch of good looking people in torn clothes working together…
Consumer spending: Which megacities' residents have increasing cash to splash?
There are many ways you can measure the growth of a city. You can measure the change in its population.…
Pigeons are fighting air pollution in the skies above London (sort of)
Pigeons. Dirty little sods, aren’t they? Here are just some of the things pigeons sometimes carry: salmonella, tuberculosis and tiny…
The dead rat they just found in Hackney was probably not the size of a small child
Here’s a picture of gas engineer Tony Smith holding a giant rat which he found in an east London housing…
Six things we learned from the LSE’s interactive map of the world’s largest cities
So, here’s fun. LSE Cities, the London School of Economics’ inventively-named cities programme, has produced an interactive map of the…
Britain's commuting patterns in one graph
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some…
Cars keep driving in cycle lanes because drivers are idiots
Bike lanes can be pretty confusing, can’t they? They’re, like, a part of the road, but they’re… not for cars?…
These interactive maps show North America's Pacific Coast after the ice caps have melted
Remember Jeffrey Linn’s beautiful and terrifying maps of what sea level rises could do to the Pacific Coast of the…
The “Northern Powerhouse” still has some of Britain’s worst broadband speeds
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some…