Links tagged with “london”
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BBC News - ‘Occupy’ is a response to economic permafrost
Good stuff by Paul Mason. “Occupy Everywhere, then, is the kind of movement you get when people start to believe mainstream politicians have lost their principles, or are trapped by vested interests, or are all crooked.” (via Preoccupations)
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London Cycling Campaign | Campaigns | Key campaigns | Blackfriars | People-friendly Blackfriars
Pretty impressive graphics and animations for an alternative vision of a tricky junction, as competition for the official and protested-against plans.
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The last days of a legendary gay venue | From the Guardian | The Guardian
Awww, that’s a shame. Gay or not, First Out was a lovely little cafe. Progress, eh?
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Voices Of East Anglia: Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties
Lots of great photos of what it used to look like. I love that sweeping staircase. (via @antimega)
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The Living City (1970) - YouTube
I haven’t watched it all yet, but looks interesting: a 1970 half hour film about the post-war rebuilding of the City of London, from the London Metropolitan Archives.
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Hackney London Riots | Stylenoir
A decent report and photos by a style mag from the London riots, #2. (via @catfunt)
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The Battle of Mare Street « Viceland.com
A decent report and photos by a style mag from the London riots, #1. (via @alanconnor)
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Planning Application Details - 149-157 Whitecross Street, EC1Y
For turning half of the row of empty buildings on Whitecross Street into four commercial units and nine flats, in a faux Victorian/Georgian style.
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Henry Beck Rules, not OK? Breaking the Rules of Diagrammatic Map Design (PDF)
A thoughtful essay by Max Roberts, from 2009, about the rules used in Beck’s diagrammatic London Underground map, and when they’re worth breaking. Well worth a read. (via Blech)
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For 2 weeks only – alternative tube maps on display
Photos of the work of Max Roberts on the tube map. Photos, rather than decent graphics unfortunately. Can’t find better versions of his stuff online, so london-tubemap.com “wins”.
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London Tubemap - A new angle on the London Underground
I like the original, but this compromise does feel more usefully connected to the geography of the city, rather than a complete abstraction. (via @benhammersley)
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Hobbs of Barbican
I never knew: Between 1930 and WWII the firm Hobbs of Barbican made bikes in the Barbican area of London, later moving to Dagenham.
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S.E.H Kelly — Clothes made in England and the British Isles
Men’s clothes, made entirely from UK materials (including the buttons), based in Hackney, London. Although they all look too short for me.
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The Ancient Tree Hunt (PDF)
A cycling route to some of London’s oldest trees.
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Helicopter Routes in the London CTR and London/City CTR (PDF)
London’s helicopter sky roads.
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Silicon Roundabout Roundup
Alex is tracking the ups and downs of events in the area via Tumblr.
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London’s Holy Wells
Some interesting history about the location of wells in London, with photos and maps. eg, St Agnes Well was round the back of the Foundry on Old Street.
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Post-War Buildings
Don’t think I’ve seen this before. A collection of photos, details and sometimes long descriptions of mostly London post-war modern buildings. Good. (Shame the photos are all Flash though.)
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Cyclists in the City: Cycle Superhighway is scandalous. Carbon copy of killer bike lane coming to Vauxhall Bridge Road
Given how superficially cycling seems approved of by those in power (superhighways, Boris bikes, Cameron cycling, etc) it’s amazing how new road schemes are still often dangerous for cyclists, even when they sort of have cycle lanes etc.
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W. Brian Arthur vs Silicon Roundabout, ‘Start-Up Britain’ and other shake-and-bake approaches « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones on how you can’t just conjure an area like Shoreditch out of thin air and tax incentives. These things — locations, industries, technologies — take time and long-term ideas.
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Potlatch: An open letter to the hipster
Will Davies calling on hipsters to be more politically aware (to very crudely summarise). Reminds me a bit of Adam Curtis at The Story talking about how the stories we tell online ignore the political structure of the net. (via Tom Taylor)
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Exquisite Tweets from @kaygeeuk, @Danny_Saxby, @m1ndy9876, @MissEllieMae, @ARRJAYKAY, @BenDylan, @kevmcveigh, @squashypigeon, @sliderulesyou, @oliverburkeman
Highly edited (none of the retweets for a start) version of the “Sky reporters offered protestors £25 to throw bricks” rumour spreading on Twitter, curated by me.
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If You Tolerate Bis, Kenickie Will Be Next
Another lovely twee-sounding club night in London. (via @revdancatt)
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Welcome to the Real Time Club
“Founded in 1967, the Real Time Club is believed to be the world’s oldest IT dining Club.” (via Haddock)
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Street Traffic Accidents (Metropolis). (Hansard, 18 May 1914)
“…can [the Home Secretary] see his way so to alter or relax the police regulations as to enable the more expeditious slaughter of animals meeting with serious accidents in the streets?”
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Sohei Nishino - Diorama map London (Detailed info)
Stunning photographic collage photo-maps of cities. Currently at Michael Hoppen Gallery, SW3 3TD until 2nd April. (via Blech)
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MySociety » Blog Archive » Seeking to Contract an Interactive Designer for FixMyTransport
The good folks at mySociety are looking for a freelance designer to make their new project beautiful and lovely.
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The Sartorialist: On the Street….London Color Story, London
Some Londoners appear to be dressing themselves after that Hollywood movie teal-and-orange colour grading craze.
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David Long :: Hidden City
“The Secret Alleys, Courts and Yards of London’s Square Mile” Sounds like a good read.
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London’s first aerial walkways | News | Property news | Homes & Property
I’m assuming it’s just the Standard’s subeditor who thinks these are the “first aerial walkways” in London, rather than architecture writer Ruth Bloomfield. That would be silly…
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File:Bill of Mortality.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grim government statistics for 1665. No pretty graphs.
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Hangover Lounge
Sunday afternoons at the Lexington on Pentonville Road. Sounds very nice, if I wasn’t already spending Sunday afternoons agonising over having achieved nothing useful yet each weekend.
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When Should I Visit Science Museum?
What a lovely idea - which museums are most or least likely to be busy today?
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Barbican - Images | Jamie Smith
Some nice photos of the Barbican by a student who’s doing a project on it. They’d be even nicer if they didn’t have a copyright statement stamped across their middles though.
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LRB · Iain Sinclair · The Raging Peloton
He has a nice turn of phrase but Iain Sinclair is a gloomy, misanthropic reactionary who thinks the only people who can ride bikes authentically are the 1950s working class and eccentric poets. One wonders why he still lives in London.
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Exquisite Tweets from @candicecbailey…
Whoops! One careless word and suddenly people think there’s a shooting in Oxford Circus. @candicecbailey appears to have deleted her original tweet now, although it’s not really her fault. (via @abscond)
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Movieos - London again
Tom Insam, ex of Dopplr, is back in London and looking for a job. You should try to hire him, because he is good.
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trendwatching.com: Join our team
TrendWatching have two full-time jobs going in London. A decade ago I expect I would have been super keen on these.
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LRB · job
Now that’s a job advert. No faffing. “The ‘London Review of Books’ is looking for an editor, preferably one with an interest in politics and history. Would suit a young, disaffected academic.”
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Cyclists in the City: HGVs - Time to make common cause with pedestrians and motorcyclists?
Some figures on how pedestrian and cycle casualties are caused in the City. Only 5% of pedestrian casualties are the result of cyclists, although pedestrians generally feel cyclists are dangerous.
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YouTube - The London Nobody Knows (Part 1 of 4) Documentary
‘The London Nobody Knows’ has found its way to YouTube. Watch, if you haven’t seen it, and you like/know London, in case it disappears.
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That Gormandizer Man: How London buses are numbered - TfL come up trumps!
A lovely and interesting email from TfL. I love how historic numbers are maintained/adapted. It’s the kind of thing that has no direct benefit to a company’s profit, but it makes the world a better place.
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Flickr: The Broad Street & old Liverpool Street station, London Pool
Some good old pics. I should remember a lot more of the old Liverpool and Broad Street stations than I do.
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Old maps of Southwark - Southwark Council
Not just maps of Southwark, but good resolution PDFs of historical maps of London. Good. (via @alanconnor)
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LRB · Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011 · letters
I must have missed the government’s embarrassment and apologies over its peaceful citizens being treated like this by the police in the student protests.
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Mare Street’s failed music venue Ocean to reopen as Hackney Picture House next year - News - Hackney Gazette
Ooh, that’s good. I wish it had been a decent cinema when I lived up the road, rather than the ill-thought-out Ocean. (via @catfunt)
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Unboxed Consulting - Blog - TechHub and Silicon Roundabout
James Darling on good form. It’s great that co-working offices like TechHub exist for people who want them, but TechHub’s press releases are a bit overblown, like something from one of the previous booms.
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File:Wardour St Name Changes since 1585.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I had no idea Wardour Street had been so variable over the years. (via gwire’s Tumblr)
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We Made This Ltd - Ministry of Stories & Hoxton Street Monster Supplies
Very lovely - London’s own version of 826 Valencia (the “Pirate Shop”) and similar. (via Chrisdodo)
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Free Map of London (Communities and Open Space Survey) 1943 from the Probert Encyclopaedia Map Archive
More precise than the previous 1943 map of London areas and/but very nice. (via Blech)
