All articles by jonn elledge
jonn elledge
“The council destroyed more than the Blitz”: For the third time in a century, they're rebuilding Coventry
I was hovering gormlessly outside Coventry station, waiting for Google Maps to load, when I suddenly realised I didn’t need…
How Birmingham is using property development to re-tool its economy
Something I’ve noticed when visiting Birmingham over the past couple of years: parts of the city have started to feel…
How does the economy of Liverpool compare with similar cities?
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
Podcast: Northern soul
This week’s podcast is sort of the conclusion of a two-parter. On the last show, we talked about the history…
Every time the government delays its decision on expanding Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol sends a cake
Updated 25 October because… well, you’ll find out. CityMetric contributor Tom Forth has noted in these pages before that the…
Reviving Joseph Chamberlain: How Wolverhampton is using municipal power to build a new economy
Here’s a piece of trivia for you: Wolverhampton is the only British city ever to build its own motorway junction. …
Depressing housing chart of the week: Newcastle flatlines as London leaves the stratosphere
If you wanted to show, in just one graph, that England has a housing crisis then, well, your choices are…
Nearly half of Britons are living in sub-quality housing, and other stories
Britain’s last Labour government has often been criticised for the failure of its housing policies – and in terms of…
Here is a very important map of the most obscene town names in each of the 50 United States
PRs send me a lot of inforgraphics produced by corporations, in a transparent attempt to get some free press coverage.…
How does the economy of Birmingham compare with similar cities?
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…