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jonn elledge
Why is Central China like the MidWest? Why big countries have names that don’t make sense
So a few weeks ago, reading some pretentious history thing or another, I caught a reference to Mao Zedong’s birth…
11 times Heatherwick Studio declined to comment
The time it was rumoured to be at work on Google’s new headquarters in California. “I can confirm Heatherwick…
Oh, so that’s why Sheffield is falling behind
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
Is Sheffield falling behind?
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
Podcast: Barbarexit
A disaster has befallen the good ship CityMetric: our staff writer Barbara Speed, who has been with us since before…
There's a guy in the German embassy trying to travel on every London bus route before he leaves town
What would you do, if you found yourself posted to strange cities for years at a time? How would you…
Is Sadiq Khan cancelling the Garden Bridge by stealth?
Could this be it? Could it finally be happening? Could the biggest debate in Greater London politics – “Should we…
Here's a 1935 map of some suburban London rail services
Oh, dear readers. I feel that recently we’ve let you – or at least, a significant minority of you –…
London is funding the rest of the UK, and other things we just learned about the nation's taxes
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
“The vultures are circling”: post-Brexit, other cities are plotting to displace London as Europe's business capital
On Thursday 23 June, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. On Friday 24 June, this happened: Shape…