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jonn elledge
23 possible reasons why London's Crossrail has just been renamed the Elizabeth Line
Because Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning queen regnant (one who reigns in her own right, rather than one…
Podcast: Not a drop to drink
Round these parts, we talk a lot about roads and trains and houses and parks – all the things you…
This one chart explains why young Londoners are so angry about housing
So the British think tank the Resolution Foundation just published its annual Living Standards report. Its 78 pages are packed…
This is why we ignore official UK city status: because it's really, really stupid
This is St David’s. Click to expand, should that be something you wish to do. Image: Google. St David’s lies…
What if London's tube map was just, well, better?
London’s Underground Diagram (or “Tube Map”) has long been regarded as an icon of informational design, pioneering the way for…
Podcast: Globalised cities and their discontents
Some dates are destined to live in infamy. 1066; August 4th, 1914. This is not one of those dates. It…
Boris Johnson & TfL want to build massive road tunnels under London, again
Cars. People love cars, don’t they? Matt Le Blanc loves cars so much he’s the new presenter of Top Gear,…
Six things we learnt from this London property tube map
Sometimes, on my darker days, I wonder whether London’s tube map obsession has gone too far. Is there no idea,…
A London borough just voted to leave the European Union
The further you go from a city, the less a part of the place its fringes are likely to feel.…
Shanks’s Pony: In which English & Welsh cities are commuters most likely to walk to work?
The latest instalment of our weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools to crunch some of…