Fancy a ten-lecture series, delving into diverse topics such as agglomeration, migration, land markets and planning, transport, service delivery, crime and sustainability. Well then check out our virtual PhD course beginning September, 2024 Register > theigc.org/events/bread-i…

Made in Manchester and Leigh: Kathleen Drew-Baker (1901-57), a star botanist at the University of Manchester, made breakthroughs in cultivation of seaweed that saved Japan’s multi-billion pound sushi industry, for which she is commemorated there as ‘Mother of the Sea’. 1/6

This coming Monday (July 29) will be the final Monday edition of the Evening Standard (first published 1827). From August, it will be published as a paper on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, before eventually becoming a weekly paper, probably in late September.

80 years ago, at 9.44am on 28 July 1944, a V1 flying bomb hit Lewisham market. At least 51 people were killed, more than 200 injured. The centre of Lewisham was wrecked in an instant. Read about the bomb and the fire, rescue & medical response here: longlazylewisham.wordpress.com/2024/07/28/lew…

In city after city around the U.S., traffic enforcement plummeted during the pandemic. And it hasn’t come back. With Ben Blatt nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Here's how the government's proposed new annual housing targets look as a percentage of existing regional housing stocks

I think the Deputy Prime Minister, Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP, may need to update her LinkedIn profile.

Private rent affordability is worse than ever according to Dataloft figures published by ONS, which is odd as I distinctly remember being told that recent rent increases were not a sign of shortages as they were going up in line with earnings ons.gov.uk/economy/econom…

Not every classic is well known. To write “The Gender of Walking,” Tiina Männistö-Funk laboriously and ingeniously recovered essential data that were otherwise lost forever, from thousands of unique documents that were never intended to include the data that she recovered from them.

Call for papers: ‘Sixty years on from the London County Council: legacy, impact, learning’. Organising with Ruth Lang Dr Dawn Pereira and held at The London School of Architecture The London Archives in March 2025. DM me for the full call for papers. Deadline for abstracts is 16th October 2024 #LCC60

This is so insane

Fascinating data analysis from the Economist looking at 7.5m US car crashes The chart below shows likelihood of you dying in a car crash by weight of your car (grey line) and weight of other car (red line) So it’s in our own self interest to get a heavier car (slight reduction

10 years ago Michael Anderson and Maximilian Auffhammer analysed this dynamic and estimated that excessively heavy vehicles caused external accident costs of ~$136 billion a year in the US, justifying an extra $0.97 a gallon tax on gas academic.oup.com/restud/article…

Bank station, 8.45 this morning. Despite what was predicted straight after Covid, central London office working seems alive and well. But what has London's return to the office looked like? And how does this scene compare to downtown Manhattan / La Defense? 🧵👇

Nicky Gavron: a very fine appreciation of her life and legacy. A principled pragmatist with flair and imagination. Obit by ⁦Dave Hill⁩ of London online. onlondon.co.uk/nicky-gavron-a…

📢 📈NEW BLOG: "At 50 years old, the IpsosUK Issues Index is a national treasure and provides us with an indispensable golden thread running through modern British social history" 👇 benm77.medium.com/golden-thread-…

Tokyo is just a pile of trains in a trenchcoat.