All articles by Charlie Lawrence Jones
Charlie Lawrence Jones
5 ways London’s waterways will be shaped by the Canal & River Trust’s new mooring strategy
Anyone without a vested interest in the canals, bear with me here; I’ve got big news. The Canal and River…
Five species that have quietly adapted to urban living in London
There’s a weird assumption that cities and wildlife are two completely incompatible entities. That once humans start living together in…
Welcome to Northbank and Midtown: Why it’s not enough to simply rebrand London
Rebranding has become all the rage in London. There’s now a Northbank and a Midtown where once there was only…
How London became the tuberculosis capital of Western Europe
I was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, which was quite the shock since I’d assumed it to be a disease left…
Here are six things I learnt in a fortnight using London’s new dockless rent-a-bikes
About a month ago, my loyal bike finally retired in spectacular fashion as I struggled to get up a hill…
How the future of farming lies in our inner-cities
Farming, it almost goes without saying, is not typically associated with cities. In fact, it’s near enough the opposite: very…
Here’s why canal boat dwellers find it so hard to vote
‘Not my problem’. This was, in essence, the response received by worried boat owners when they reached out to Bethnal…
So how does a canal boat travel uphill?
Sea-faring boats face many challenges, but uphills are not one of them. They have to deal with up-waves, of course,…
Telling us it’s okay to rent doesn’t make it okay to rent. The government needs to regulate the market
Theresa May’s main response to collapsing levels of homeownership among young people has been to tell the generation of permo-renters…
Why can’t London cope with extreme weather?
When the BBC warned that another cold snap could hit London over Easter weekend, you could almost hear the population’s…