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jonn elledge
Here are all the names of London tube stations that we’ve just stopped noticing are weird
Angel “The next station is Gnome. Change here for Elf, Cherubim and Fairy.” Arsenal Would be a lot less weird…
23 reasons the CPRE’s campaign to cover south east England in houses is the best thing that could ever happen
You know, I’ve sometimes been a bit down on the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England. I’ve always thought…
Where’s the oldest part of Birmingham?
Continuing our occasional series of working out where major cities actually started. Birmingham, if you like that sort of thing…
Podcast: The Poison Sky
I don’t mean to worry you, but if you live in a city, the air you breathe is probably killing…
NIMBYs near Canary Wharf just blocked 2,000 homes to protect a petrol station
Whenever I’ve suggested – sometimes gently, sometimes not – that London might soon need to build housing on its green…
Which British cities will be hit hardest by Brexit?
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of the numbers…
This map shows what London’s tube network would look like without any actual tube lines
Well. This is one of the weirder tube maps I’ve seen of late. And believe me, I see a LOT…
Podcast: Transatlantic
Well, this is new: our first crossover with another podcast. Exciting times. The podcast in question is Talking Headways which,…
The DLR has a new map – with line colours on it!
The Docklands Light Railway may well be worrying that its youth is behind it, and debating whether it’s time to…
Yorkshire might finally be getting a devolution deal. But what’s taken so long?
Back in December 2014, when Boris Johnson was still running London and metro mayors were little more than a glint…