All articles by jonn elledge
jonn elledge
Everyone wants to build houses, and five other things we learned from the first UK City Leaders’ Survey
Something unusual happened in British politics over the last few weeks: someone bothered to ask city leaders what they think.…
Podcast: Council housing strikes back
This week, I’m chatting about the housing crisis with the Centre for London. Last summer, research manager Victoria Pinoncely was…
Transport utopianism is stupid, and Elon Musk should shut up
One of the things that’s most irritating about politics in 2018 – and goodness me, aren’t there a lot of…
So why is Peterborough growing so quickly?
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers on…
An official and objective ranking of the seven bridges linking Newcastle and Gateshead
I’ve just got back from Newcastle. It was completely brilliant – great architecture, great cultural offering, great seaside, great pubs…
Podcast: Why aye, man
You’ll be delighted, I’m sure, to learn this podcast is not about Brexit. I’ve been in Newcastle, capital in the…
Podcast: The rise of the robots
This week, it’s about work, automation, fear and loathing in god’s own county of Essex. New Statesman tech writer Sarah…
Podcast repeat: Sex* and the city (*gender)
This is a repeat – sorry gang, I’ve been horrendously busy. But, there are quite a lot of episodes of…
Literally just 21 great street names from York
York is a lovely city, especially if you like Vikings, or Richard III, or old trains in a big shed.…
This unofficial take on London’s rail map is so much better than the real thing that it’s almost depressing
London’s rail network is complex, and becoming more so. One shouldn’t complain about this – honestly, have you tried living…