Over the course of a few decades ending in the mid-’70s, architects such as Erno Goldfinger, Alison and Peter Smithson, and Sir Basil Spence made London a brutalist playground. Forty years later, many ...
To make London’s transport network easier to use for disabled travellers, Simon Sansome founded an app named Snowball. The app reimagines Harry Beck’s classic map to produce a free fully accessible ...
British artist James Bridle is fascinated by surveillance technology. Once, he photographed 140 CCTV cameras on the walk between his London flat and the tube. This past year, he installed a white ...
Even if you know the route to your destination, or prefer the analogue way of navigating, map apps are useful for letting you know exactly how long it’ll take you to get there. Most Londoners trust ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Emma Sandler is a journalist covering beauty, fashion and wellness. This article is more than 9 years old. When Andrew Godwin ...
Warning to Londoners: This map may shock and appall. You might think of your beloved Tube as an orderly procession of underground lines, but this is its truth. This detailed map of the Underground ...
Any city is more than the sum of its topography, buildings, and streets. For its inhabitants and even visitors, a city is also a collection of memories and associations that you can’t see on a map.
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one story that fell ...
It was fall 2011, and Robinson had just arrived in London. Like many young professionals, Robinson realised that the UK capital was the place to establish a firm career path. Robinson had always been ...