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jonn elledge
Podcast: Into the Woods
Skylines is out and about again this week. Epping Forest is a 13 mile long strip of wooded land straddling…
Podcast: Health and efficiency
Forgive the brevity of this week’s shownotes, but it looks horribly like the British government might finally be about to…
David Hare’s “The Permanent Way” is most powerful for what it says about outsourcing
Forgive me, CityMetric readers, for what I am about to say, but it is, I fear, true: rail regulation is…
TfL is offering you the chance to stop two proposed Bakerloo line stations from having stupid names
Ever wanted to name a tube station? Well boy is this your lucky week. The latest round of Transport for…
Podcast: The battle for number two
In roughly the same manner as the Greenland Ice Sheet, the London mayoral election is hotting up. Ex-Tory Rory Stewart…
Should Croydon be in zone 4? A brief investigation of the TfL fare zones
Andrew Adonis – peer of the realm, arch remainer, former transport secretary, would-be Labour MP for Vauxhall – has been…
Which is England’s second city?
I have recently picked up a new bad habit, because obviously I needed one of those. Whenever I mention Manchester…
Podcast: The Power of Yes
One of the more exciting things to have happened in the already fairly exciting world of housing and planning policy…
Podcast: The Ancient Regime
The present is terrible and the future may be worse, so let’s take refuge in the past. Monica L. Smith…
London’s golf courses could provide homes for a million people, even at low densities
So there’s a guy called Stephen Jorgenson-Murray who’s contributed a dozen or so articles to these pages. Nothing unusual in…