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jonn elledge
Six things we learned from today’s ONS house price index
It’s another lovely sunny day here in London – perfect weather for chilling out and drinking wine and generally not…
There used to be Olympic medals for town planning, except they kept giving them to sports facilities
At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, the Olympic Stadium won a gold medal. How the medal was presented to the…
Podcast: Let the games begin
So here’s a funny thing. We managed to do an entire podcast about the Olympics in cities, without saying the…
Why has Google Maps started shading bits of cities orange/brown instead of grey?
One of the great things about being the world’s leading purveyor of urbanism for the social media ageTM is that,…
Have southern English cities grown faster than northern ones? The answer may surprise you
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
Of course London gets more transport funding than the north. It's addicted to it
Yesterday, IPPR North, the arm of the centre left think tank concerned with, well, you can guess, put out a…
A tale of 62 cities: how Britain’s population growth fell to its small towns
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
20 photos which prove that hosting the Olympics is a great way to regenerate a city
Barcelona is the largest city on the Mediterranean – but until the 1980s, it largely ignored its coastline, a drab…
Podcast: Band on the run
So, there are two different reasons why this episode is particularly exciting. One is that it’s the first with new…
A tale of 10 cities: Most big British cities have shrunk relative to the country around them
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some…