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jonn elledge
This map shows quite how little land London has left to build housing on
Average UK house prices are up again – by £3,000 in just one month! Yay, huzzah, let joy be unconfined,…
Britain's fastest growing cities are all in the south – and its shrinking ones all in the north
This is the latest instalment of our new weekly series, in which we use the Centre for Cities’ data tools…
How do metro systems cope with whopping great hills?
Sudden steep hills are a bit of a pain in the arse an engineering challenge for yer bog standard metro…
This is why London's Night Tube probably won't start on 12 September as planned
Last week, a strike by staff shut London’s tube network down for over 24 hours. The cause of the industrial…
Six reasons Londoners should probably stop whining about the tube strike
Break out the bunting, hand out the paper hats and let joy be unconfined. For, tonight begins the latest installment…
Where are the UK’s most productive cities?
As you may have seen, the Centre for Cities, the UK’s leading urban think tank, recently signed up as CityMetric’s…
CityMapper is offering Londoners journeys involving Crossrail, which doesn’t exist yet
Unless you live in a rural area, or your phone battery ran down in 2012, or you’re still relying on…
This week's amateur tube map takes London back to basics
Some people make their own metro maps for fun. Others, like my 16 year old self, do it because they…
Three of the 10 most sexually diseased cities in the United States have major military bases
There are many questions that a person might consider when moving to a new city. How’s the local economy? How…
This graph shows that many of Britain's under 40s will probably never own their own homes
When you spend as much time having pointless and circular arguments about Britain’s housing crisis as I do, you get…