An exhibition at the British Library shows how historic maps project power, propaganda and art. In examples from London, heads on spikes, air-brushed slums and "al-fresco bonking" mark out the city's ...
Ever wondered what the oldest map of London is? Well, the oldest surviving complete map of the city dates back to the 1570s — and it's going on display in April, as part of Magnificent Maps of London ...
Changes to six lines of the London Overground mean an update to a 1931 design that went global and became a gold standard, even sparking an uproar in 2009 when the River Thames was taken off the map.
From a futuristic time travel map to an 'inside out' version, many cartographers have had a go at improving the world-famous London Underground map. The most recent attempt was from University of ...
New online maps allow users to peel back London’s streets to trace its growth and changes over the past 500 years. Layers of London reveal lost fields, open rivers and debtor prisons in what are now ...
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Six students from De Montfort University won first prize in the Off The Map challenge when they turned maps of seventeenth century London into a detailed 3D world. The challenge was sponsored by ...
The pre-industrial revolution capital was still the largest in the world at the time - but appears an oasis of green compared to today's urban jungle A REMARKABLE early 19th century map of London has ...
How do cities make us feel? Does the Champs-Élysées elicit happy emotions? Does the East River generate fear? A new project from Stanford’s Literary Lab attempts to show how British novels of the 18th ...
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 ...
London commuters are set to face yet another spell of chaos as Tube workers walk out on strike once again this week. Members of the RMT Union will strike for 24 hours as the ongoing dispute over jobs, ...