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jonn elledge
The CPRE is wrong: there are not going to be 275,000 new homes on England's green belt
Over the last two days, a depressingly high number of newspapers have published a story about the latest research (yes,…
The British housing market is broken – and the data proves it
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
American cities are much more powerful than British ones – and that's not always a good thing
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a Massachusetts-based think tank which researches the use, taxation and regulation of –…
This data visualisation shows the path of every trade ship in the world over the course of 2012
Do you want to see the entire global shipping industry in one visualisation? Of course you do. Here it is:…
Birmingham is planning to build 6,000 new homes on its green belt
Back in the early days of CityMetric, in those halcyon days of 2014 when summers seemed longer and we all…
Podcast: Sound and vision
It’s very easy (or at least, it is if you’re me) to fall into the trap of seeing cities as…
Those British cities that aren't car dependent all seem to be rich
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
Housing charity Shelter has released a tube map of rental affordability and it is the saddest thing
If you’re planning on living in London any time soon, and you’re neither an investment banker nor someone who conveniently…
Top Gear: Which British cities are most likely to drive to work?
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…
Here's everything we learned from this map of all Europe's tram systems in Czech
It’s been a long week, what with one thing and another, so it’s probably about time to kick back, relax…