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jonn elledge
13 places the Elizabeth line won’t go to
London’s Crossrail, which will finally open this December under the cringe-worthy name “the Elizabeth line”, has been on the table…
Podcast: Dad jokes
My dad died, in January. Which sucks. Since then, I’ve found finding myself cataloguing the various things I got from…
Which British cities had the best, and worst, 20th centuries?
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the…
Nine things we learned from this population density map of Europe
“I’ve been playing around with EU population data (2011),” a housing information specialist by the name of Dan Cookson tweeted…
Why doesn’t London build an RER network, like Paris did?
I’ve heard many people make many different complaints about the Parisian transport system. That it does a bad job of…
Podcast: A local pound for local people
This week, we’re talking urban economics – or why people who support the Bristol Pound might as well be voting…
Pretty much everyone still calls the Elizabeth line Crossrail
For decades now, the authorities have been planning a new east-west tunnel under London, linking the main line from the…
A hundred years ago, which English cities were most vulnerable to economic change?
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the…
Podcast: A Primrose Hill By Any Other Name
This week, we’re talking about a subject we obsess about on CityMetric, but one which has, remarkably, escaped the podcast…
Oxford vs Middlesbrough: on the urban geography of Brexit
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data to crunch some of the numbers…