All articles by jonn elledge
jonn elledge
On the naked entitlement of Thomas Heatherwick
Oh lord, grant me the self-confidence of an entitled designer throwing a tantrum because the taxpayer won’t pay for his…
Four thoughts on TfL’s plans to colour code its bus routes
So, here’s a thing: London’s buses are changing: more accessible, more affordable and easier to use. Read more here –…
Who will be elected mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough?
There are two things that are weird about the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough mayoralty, which like five other regions holds its…
11 ways in which London’s boroughs are a bunch of really stupid shapes
So here’s a spurious thing someone sent me a link to the other day: a poster from Place in Print,…
Who will be elected mayor of the West of England?
You know, Bristol has been mucking up the nice neat map of England’s counties for nearly six and a half…
The Garden Bridge was a symbol of everything wrong with modern London. I'm glad it's dead
The obvious question about the Garden Bridge is: where did it all go wrong? The bridge, after all, should have…
Podcast: Bouncing back
Stephanie’s back! Well, technically she’s in her flat eating ice cream and proof-reading her PhD thesis, but she very kindly…
Who will be mayor of the Tees Valley?
In the 2015 general election, according to elections expert extraordinaire Professor John Curtice, Labour carried the Tees Valley by 43.4…
Benjamin Barber, the urban theorist behind the Global Parliament of Mayors, has died aged 77
I’ve just learned that the political theorist Benjamin Barber died of pancreatic cancer on Monday, at the age of 77.…
A nation that doesn’t officially exist: on Somaliland’s campaign to build a national library in Hargeisa
For seven years now, there’s been a fundraising campaign underway to build a new national library in a nation that…