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jonn elledge
Barnet council has decided a name for its new mainline station. Exciting!
I’ve ranted before about the horror of naming stations after the lines that they’re served by (screw you, City Thameslink).…
Is Britain’s housing crisis a myth?
I’ve been banging on about the need for Britain to build more houses for so long that I can no…
Network Rail let me have a play on Manchester’s new rail bridge. Here’s what I learned
By the time the railways arrived in Manchester, the city was already built up, forcing trains to finish their journey…
Podcast: Section 106
“That’s some section, that section 106.” “Best there is.” The British government defines “affordable housing” as housing which is priced…
This map shows quite how much of London’s green belt is off limits to Londoners
One of the reasons, I think, that people feel so strongly about the need to protect London’s green belt is…
It’s not the south east of England that’s rich: it’s the south middle
The latest instalment of our series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the…
Podcast: Slum networking
This is a bit of a departure for Skylines: we’ve got a sort of guest host. Joshua Bryant, an environment…
I spent an afternoon exploring Milton Keynes. Here’s everything I learned
For much of the last two and a bit years, I’ve been trawling the Centre for Cities database, looking for…
Tfl is pedestrianising Oxford Street. But what’s it doing with all those buses?
Let’s not beat around the bush on this one: Oxford Street is horrible. London’s primary commercial artery is a solid…
Podcast: “What are the rest of your bad takes?”
We’ve had a bit of a run of serious, thoughtful episodes of late, so this time we’re going to the…