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How the pandemic is magnifying structural problems in America's housing market
"Golden Gates" author Conor Dougherty discusses why it's so hard for so many to keep a roof over their heads.
The hypocrisy of Europe's big corporate landlords
Despite charitable giving, they've offered little relief to struggling tenants.
The coronavirus has effectively stalled a movement to tackle North America’s retail vacancy crisis
“It's a problem that exists everywhere.”
Uber and Lyft are cutting even further into the taxi market during the pandemic
In New York and Chicago, ride-hailing apps have accounted for more than 90 percent of trips taken during lockdown.
To see how a city embraces remote work, look to Helsinki
Before Covid, Finland already displayed impressive levels of remote working.
How Covid-19 is shifting 'smart city' priorities
High-profile projects have been scaled down or scrapped. Instead, economic recovery and digital inclusion are the focus.
Pandemic-era planning makes it clear: Micromobility companies brought a distraction, not a revolution
Cities are seeing now that they have what they need to reach their mobility goals.
In Paris, the pandemic gave a boost to urban farms
“For the first time people realised the value of local agriculture.”
After Sidewalk Labs, the 'techlash' movement turns its eyes to contact tracing apps
"What about technology in cities are we not getting a chance to imagine by letting private companies do it for us?”
How cities are seizing the moment to focus on climate and equity
“We have one opportunity to get this right."
A new wave of remote workers could bring lasting change to pricey rental markets
As Silicon Valley embraces telework, monthly rents are dropping in the area.
Sponsored: Is Airbnb’s model for short-term lets ruining cities, or breathing life into them?
It may be about finding the right balance.
Bank branches are closing, and they’re leaving the most disadvantaged areas behind
Underserved neighbourhoods already have fewer banks, and they're losing them faster, a CityMetric analysis shows.
When rethinking the streets, don't forget the power of cargo bikes
Those new cycling networks can be used to transport goods as well as people.
In the Covid era, the relationship between cities and megadevelopments makes even less sense
The demise of Sidewalk Labs’ Waterfront Toronto project may only be the beginning.
Typically crushed by tourists, summer hotspots aren't sure what happens next
As tourism has disappeared, the effects of building an economy around it are coming into stark relief.
Airbnb rentals are reverting to long-term housing. That may not change the affordability crisis
A slight drop in some cities' rents could be limited to the upper end of the market.
In expensive cities, the future of residential construction is deeply uncertain
An adequate housing stock is crucial to any city’s health.
What's actually in the UK government’s bailout package for Transport for London?
Rapid changes to London’s transport policy were an explicit condition of the deal.
Airbnb’s coronavirus crisis may be good news for renters in expensive cities
Some hosts are abandoning the platform.
Coming soon to cities everywhere: PPE vending machines
It's a simple concept that makes a ton of sense.
How the pandemic interrupted a banner year for plastic bag bans
In the US, the plastics industry played a role.
In emerging-market megacities, informal public transport shines during the crisis
There's plenty to learn from these flexible networks.
Around the world, local utility suppliers hadn't planned for a pandemic
And we're all using less electricity now.
As the world stays home, street vendors fight to survive
“I’ve had customers call me, they say they miss my sandwiches, but they can’t go out right now.”
How job types and industries are influencing regional differences in the UK’s lockdown
The degree to which Britons have cut down on travel might have more to do with their job than their politics.
For renters, an affordable housing crisis was already raging. Then coronavirus hit
Landlords are reporting notable decreases in rent payments, and it's only the first month.
Amid lockdowns, European mayors face a complex array of economic crises
Tourism centres are particularly vulnerable.
Home-working and uncertainty: How will coronavirus affect jobs around the country?
The importance of agglomeration.
For centuries, London has been the work capital of the world
An extract from Migrant City: A New History of London.
The postal system isn’t working for renters. So why not learn from email?
Not at this address.
Here’s why measuring inclusive prosperity is crucial for building successful cities
Introducing the PICSA index.
The property industry can’t afford not to adapt to climate change
Start now to avoid disappointment.
What would a “Singapore-style” Brexit mean for London?
A tale of two yes yes that again.
Which London borough has the worst pubs? An important CityMetric investigation
Fire up the data-tron.
Café Britannia: the Norwich café run by prisoners now under threat from the government
Early release.
Uber’s battle for Buenos Aires is shaking rule of law in Argentina
Driven to distraction.
“It’s not a life saver, but it is a brain saver”: in praise of parent & baby cinema screenings
It’ll be a scream.
How America prostrated itself before Amazon – and how New York took a stand
A long read on “the Hunger Games for cities”.
Could new community banks change Britain for the better?
A new Sparkassen.
Podcast: Public enterprise
On enterprise zones and big data.
Which UK cities are most dependent on a single sector?
Undiversified.
Do “the creative industries” really matter for city economies?
Artistic questions.
What the West Midlands’ local industrial strategy means for other cities
Scale your own barriers.
Is all economics local?
Some are more equal than others.
How housing inequality is screwing up the country
Ooooh a map.
High housing costs are stopping us moving for work – and it’s damaging the economy
A new career in a new town.
Why do businesses continue to cluster in London?
Trade, talent and time zones.
How big data could help London beat over-tourism
Future-proofing the city.
To solve the productivity puzzle, we need to talk about place
Lessons from Sheffield.
Segregated playgrounds are just the start: inequality is built into the fabric of our cities
Divide and conquer.
Council tax is the new poll tax. It’s time for reform
I predict a riot.
Here’s why city governments should do more to support crowdfunding
The enabling authority.
Why Europe’s capital cities are pulling away from their countries – and what we can do about it
The metropolitan elite strikes back.
I went to Cleveland to see “the mistake on the lake”. What I found was one of the coolest cities in the US
Undercover cool.
These maps show how ridiculously unequal Britain’s economy is
Hampshire? Really?
Why the Green New Deal should include a four day week
Work less, breathe better.
What do the differences seen in nearby cities tell us about successful high streets?
A tale of two… ah, you can guess the rest.
To fix the north south divide, we need to talk about human capital
The economic geography of inequality.
Three ways the geography of Britain’s exports has changed since 1841
From red brick factories to glass skyscrapers.
Burnley shows why you can’t rebalance the British economy through manufacturing
Making things isn’t everything.
Venice had its own ‘Airbnb problem’ during the Renaissance. Here’s how it solved it
Short term let, 16th century style.
Slough is the most productive urban area in Britain. What’s that about, then?
On the economic might of crap towns.
Work isn’t paying – but the North can act now to fix that
The Tory government isn’t working.
What should the new North of Tyne mayor’s priorities be?
England’s newest metro mayor will be elected next month.
Beyond Preston: How local wealth building is taking the UK by storm
Local wealth building is slaying the neoliberal dragon of trickle-down economics
The decline of the English and Welsh High Street, mapped
Commerce in crisis.
Sorry, Theresa May: The best way to create Stronger Towns is to invest in our cities
Beyond the pork barrel.
Podcast: Flying high
Drones above the high streets of Britain.
Poorer cities have borne the brunt of austerity. Time to fix it, Chancellor
The chief executive of the Centre for Cities on its latest survey of urban Britain.
The seven most interesting maps and charts from the Centre for Cities’ latest survey of urban Britain
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
To tackle peak tourism, we need collective solutions
Even if you think you're a traveller, you're still just another bloody tourist.
After a decade of austerity, Hartepool is looking to Preston for a new economic model
Coastal Corbynomics.
“They’re sometimes compared to superheroes”: Why we all owe a debt to project managers
Thank you, Jeff, you’ve saved our city!
How Victorian newspapers helped shape the look of Britain’s towns and cities
Black and white and read all over.
“There aren’t enough hours in the day”: a self-employed private courier, on the Christmas delivery round
The real father Christmas.
So why isn’t Newcastle booming?
Office space, the final frontier.
“Every twitch, breath or thought necessitates a contactless tap”: on the rise of the chain coffeeshop as public space
The opposite of POPS.
Treating towns as bastions of Brexit ignores the reasons for the referendum result – and how to address them
We need to fix struggling towns, AND struggling cities.
A brief history of airline booking systems
Are algorithms trying to steal our children?
Can Phillip Hammond’s Treasury really revive Britain’s high streets?
Retail isn’t enough.
Can gentrification ever be ethical? On Amazon’s move to Long Island and Crystal City
Erasing the poor.
Whatever the outcome of Brexit, the UK government should keep promoting ecodesign in household products
Greener, better, more durable… What’s not to love?
Does climate change affect property prices? Only if you believe in it
A matter of faith.
So is London really a drain on the rest of the country?
Twitter should be fun after this one.
Can an algorithm predict which businesses will close?
Researchers are trying to find out.
Preston used ‘Corbynomics’ to change its fortune. Now other cities are doing the same
All that, and an award-winning bus station, too!
Leeds is great and Channel 4 will love it here. But I’ll believe it when I see it
We’re used to disappointment.
What can cities do about over-tourism?
Too many tourisms.
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are”: On gentrification, identity and pie & mash
Bit peckish to be honest.
The north of England could benefit from decarbonisation – but the government must avoid the mistakes of the past
Powering the powerhouse.
The UK planning system finally recognises the ‘Agent of Change’ principle. So now what?
Looking ahead.
To boost the high street, cities should invest in offices
Beyond retail.
Pittsburgh is a glimmer of hope for cities managing industrial decline
A diamond in the rust belt.
British television once sounded like Britain. But then, the ITV mergers happened
The case for a federal ITV.
“The enabling authority”: What explains Warrington’s economic boom?
Highest productivity in the north west, fact fans.
This map suggests that, by fixing Britain’s cities, we’ll fix most of our towns, too
False dichotomies.
Demand for urban office space is changing: cities need more flexibility
From hot-desking to co-working.
The modern world is blurring the boundaries between night and day
Cities never sleep.
Five thoughts on John McDonnell’s promise to revive Britain’s manufacturing sector
Britain does still make stuff, you know.
How shipping containers changed the world – and your day-to-day life
Look around you. Almost everything you see was once inside one.
What does the fate of Detroit tell us about the future of Silicon Valley?
Industry turned toxic.
Businesses need less office and retail space than ever. So what does this mean for cities?
The dissolving workplace.
“Uniquely, Sheffield's dividing line runs directly through the city like the Berlin Wall”
The two Sheffields.
Is mass tourism destroying the beauty of Venice?
The sinking city.
It’s not just Amazon killing the high street: it’s business rates, too
The case for reform.
Which English cities have the most fast food outlets? Here’s a map
Oh, a north/south divide, I am shocked.
Bradford is beautiful. So why isn’t it booming?
Trouble up mill.
Over-tourism is becoming a global problem. How can cities tackle it?
Too much too fast.
Regional English cities are suffering from the rise of short-term rental services like Airbnb
Changing characters.
A local living wage will boost wages, increase productivity and return cash to the taxpayer. What’s not to like?
Britain needs a payrise.
Which UK cities will suffer most from the end of Freedom of Movement?
When do we get our £300m a week, exactly?
A brief history of the rise and fall of the department store
Shaping the high street, putting on a show.
“A resource that is killing the town”: on the resident’s groups campaigning against over-tourism in Venice
“Venezia libera!”
Hong Kong could benefit from offshoring – but only if its government tackles the digital divide
Mind the gap.
Is Liverpool finally regaining its rightful place at the top of the British arts industry?
Blockbuster!
Cities were once considered a source of many problems. But over the the last generation, all that has changed
In celebration of urbanism.
Fear and Loathing on Mare Street: what Hackney’s licensing dispute says about its attitude to nightlife
Good night, ladies. Good night.
“Who is Hackney for?” Mayor Philip Glanville on the borough’s controversial changes to nightlife licencing
The Labour mayor on the east London borough’s decision to introduce ‘curfews’ for new nightlife venues.
Refugees can create jobs for locals in growing cities – if only they’re given the chance
German lessons.
To sustain its urban renaissance, Manchester must make tough choices on property
Resi vs commercial.
Network Rail is selling off Britain’s railways arches. Small businesses could pay the price
Underneath the arches...
Some thoughts on why Sheffield’s economy has struggled
Hard times in the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire.
There are good reasons to reform the business rates system – but it won't save the high street
Business chiefs are wrong, shocker.
Why is Wales losing its voice on Britain’s radio stations?
Whither the dragon?
The UK is filled with empty shops. Why not fill them with culture?
A modest proposal.
Here are five common mistakes in local economic policy – and tips on how to avoid them
It’s not all about tech, and other advice.
This map shows that London is the epicentre of the house price crisis
I personally am shocked.
Route 66 built communities. The interstate system destroyed them again
A brief history of America’s most famous road.
So does increasing productivity really destroy jobs?
Creative destruction.
Weak city centres have too many shops, and five other things we learned from the latest Centre for Cities report
Building blocks.
Poor productivity and high housing costs are driving a “living standards exodus” from London
Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying.
A third Heathrow runway will mean congestion, pollution and inconvenience. There is another way
Grayling is dreamin’.
How can we cut fossil fuel subsidies, without hurting poorer people who rely on cheap energy?
Inefficiency in action.
Here are five ways bricks-and-mortar shops can survive the onslaught of e-commerce
Surviving the High Street.
High streets and shopping malls face a ‘domino effect’ from major store closures
Thanks, Amazon. Thanks a lot.
Why poverty is rising faster in US suburbs than in US cities
Hollowing out.
No, crazy house price increases are not purely a London phenomenon
How have house prices changed in Britain’s biggest cities?
Are we nearly there yet? Four years of the Northern Powerhouse
The case for the defence.
Facebook is building its own town in Silicon Valley. It won’t be the first
Imagining dystopia.
The Great Exhibition of what? Culture, region and development in England’s north
Really, what is the point of it?
Letter: Some thoughts on what’s gone wrong with Leeds
A dip into the postbag.
Britain’s mayoral cities are a step ahead in preparing for the rise of the robots
Three big advantages.
“Stop worrying about hairdressers”: The UK government has misdiagnosed its productivity problem
The wrong tail.
Liverpool’s economy has grown quicker than you think – but what’s the matter with Leeds?
A tale of 10 cities.
Is your local indie bookshop really independent? On proposals for a new ‘stealth’ Waterstones in Edinburgh
The homogenisation of place.
The most important graph in British economics
Agglomeration disbenefits.
Don’t mourn the decline of the big camp-out: urban festivals could boost our cities’ economies
Party time, excellent.
So why has Liverpool’s economy grown faster than other similar sized British cities?
Some light crowd-sourcing.
Since 1998, a major northern city has grown almost as fast as London – and it’s not the one you think
From the north-south divide to the curiosity gap.
This one chart suggests that Britain doesn’t have enough houses to go round
I was right, I was right, I was right.
How can Birmingham overcome its skills gap?
Three big ideas.
Liverpool shows how a city can stand out to investors
Think globally, but don’t forget your roots.
Could capitalism without growth build a more stable economy?
Crisis? What crisis?
Podcast: Industrial revolution, industrial decline
A guest episode, from the Centre for Cities.
The UK government should give cities and businesses more flexibility over apprenticeships
Improved take-up, improved efficiency.
These charts show quite how few British cities have seen wages rise over the last decade
Enjoy the sunshine!
Bemoan the MacBooks – but the rise of the coffee shop workspace is a reminder of public service cuts
Remember when we had libraries?
Protectionism is bad when Trump does it – so why is it so often welcomed by British cities?
Open for business.
The rise of the robots: Here are four big disruptions facing London’s economy
Could Brexit speed up automation?
How did China fall in love with dockless bikeshare?
Two wheels better.
Four maps showing Britain’s economic divides
Mappy mappy goodness.
Airbnb is getting blamed for Amsterdam’s housing crisis. So the city council is going to war against Airbnb
Feeling the squeeze.
“Who wants to be rich in a country that isn’t fair?” On London’s pro-Labour business community
A Labour councillor and businessmen on changing attitudes in the capital’s boardrooms.
Yes, supply is the cause of the housing crisis – and we do need to build more homes in successful cities
Interest rates aren’t everything.
“These towns and regions are not left behind – they are held back”
Inequality in the UK.
The New Statesman’s special correspondent reviews every branch of Greggs he’s ever been to
Mmmm delicious carbs.
England should look to the United States to revive its local economies
Time for a place-based industrial strategy.
Which British cities had the best, and worst, 20th centuries?
A sea of green.
Half of Bristol’s music venues are under threat. Blame developers
The case for Agent of Change.
Why has Victoria tube station started to smell like roast meat?
No, it isn’t a dead rat.
Podcast: A local pound for local people
No better than Trump/
Thames Water has let Londoners down. It needs to do better
A Labour member of the London Assembly on the city’s water provider.
A hundred years ago, which English cities were most vulnerable to economic change?
Plus ça change...
Three reforms needed to tackle the crisis in local government finance
No more Northamptonshires.
Podcast: A Primrose Hill By Any Other Name
Midtown? Seriously?
The continent’s approach to rail liberalisation holds lessons for Britain
No, it isn’t a nationalised paradise.
Here are four reasons UK cities would benefit if supermarkets were more like Wetherspoons
On ‘price flexing’, and the logic of devolution.
Can you have capitalism without capital? Brighton, Ankara, Ghent and the intangible economy
Bright sparks, big ideas and black clouds on the A23.
Aberdeen’s slowdown shows the dangers of being a one-industry town
The black stuff.
“The Midlands and the North of England are more exposed to Brexit than any other region in Europe”
There is no real representation from either the most exposed sectors or the most exposed regions
North American cities are competing to host Amazon’s new headquarters. Here’s what they should do
Big business.
This is why the UK planning system needs the Agent of Change principle
You broke it, you bought it.
In Toronto, Google wants to branch out into city planning
Privatised public space.
British cities have weak governance, limited public transport – and terrible productivity. Coincidence?
It’s hard not to spot a pattern.
Is Liverpool really poorer than Manchester? It depends how you count
Boundary issues.
Do Britain’s secondary cities perform better if judged on GVA per head, rather than GVA per worker?
A brief, nerdy diversion.
The UK government now supports the ‘Agent of Change’ bill to protect music venues. So what does that mean?
You change it, you bought it.
We shouldn’t worry about robots taking jobs in cities – but we should worry about the types of jobs they will create
Onwards and upwards.
International students enrich cities like Coventry – but that could change
Does the UK really want to turn its back on £22.6bn?
In Brighton there’s a cafe that saves lives
The Cascade effect.
So why are Britain’s secondary cities underperforming their European peers?
Business stock and business services.
Elephant & Castle shopping centre is facing re-development. But what of its Latin American residents?
Stomped by the elephant.
Can the world’s megacities survive the new technologies of the digital age?
The disruptors disrupted.
Britain’s secondary cities are underperforming their European peers
Why is Manchester trailing Marseilles?
These modern ghost towns show the danger of an undiversified economy
Decline and fall.
After thirty years of Canary Wharf, how has it changed the geography of East London?
Rising in the east.
Here’s how universities can help create connected and inclusive cities
All together now.
The new train operator in the West Midlands is splitting its business in two. Here’s why that’s a good thing
A local train for local people.
Wall Street is now America’s biggest landlord. What does that mean for the American Dream?
Cashing in.
On Walter Benjamin, and the “Arcades Project”
The greatest urban theorist you’ve never heard of.
“A massive suburb for the wider north”: some thoughts on the problem of Sheffield
The Northern Urbanist responds.
Both Budget and industrial strategy disappointed: the government still needs to invest in Britain’s cities
No change there, then.
“They were vandalised, dumped in canals and bins and stolen”: bike-sharing fiascoes and how to avoid them
Think it through.
A brief history of London’s Christmas lights
Oh, it’s all commercial these days.
What’s the matter with Sheffield?
Trouble in the People’s Republic.
TfL says London’s roads are being subsidised by public transport users. Is it true?
Er, yes, actually.
Does the UK really have a productivity problem?
A question of definition.
Could Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramics industry be on the verge of a comeback?
Recasting the Potteries.
Barnet council has decided a name for its new mainline station. Exciting!
Oh, well, that was predictable.
“One of the greatest opportunities facing our region”: Andy Burnham on making work better for older people
On ageing better.
It’s not the south east of England that’s rich: it’s the south middle
Centre vs periphery.
What can Amazon’s search for a new HQ teach us about how to grow a city economy?
Transport, skills and housing.
Why Berlin is like a teenager: European capitals, and their effect on GDP per capita
I hate you, I’m going to my room.
African and Asian Cities must urbanise sustainably. Is Green Finance the solution?
Rising in the south.
“It’s hard not to see them as lose-lose”: the problem with co-living spaces
Crumbs from the table.
Leeds vs Bradford: How a tale of two cities shows the need for place-based growth strategies
On social mobility and growth in West Yorkshire.
To bring back trust in politics, Britain needs a local measure of GDP
Nobody noticed when the South Yorkshire economy collapsed.
The economic and political divide between cities and towns is real and growing. So what can we do about it?
A manifesto for towns.
The cornerstone of London’s nighttime economy isn’t nightlife, but nurses, drivers and delivery people
Dusk til dawn.
Which British cities have the bestest ultrafast broadband?
The need for speed.
Can Belfast reinvent itself as a tourist attraction?
Pacification by cappuccino.
Here’s why rent control might make the housing crisis worse
To tackle the housing crisis, we need to build more houses.
Here’s why we should Build More Bloody Offices in Liverpool
This month’s letter from the Liverpool City Region
What are the factors that give a place value?
I’m in a wide-open space.
The collapse of Monarch Airlines was a disaster for passengers. But it was a victory for regulation
Could be worse.
Here’s why counting houses is hard
Wait... how many?
How a billion-dollar insurance industry protects Florida’s homeowners from disaster – for now
Waiting for the big one./
Can Britain cope with a fall in house prices?
Build more bloody financial implosions.
Make Manchuria great again: Can China’s rust belt be revived?
Our friends in the north east.
Uber is trying to be like Amazon. It’ll fail
A question of ethics.
Don’t blame hipsters for gentrification: blame neoliberalism
What Anna Minton knows.
Do the economics of bike-sharing schemes stack up?
You are the product.
Creative cities and smart cities are nothing but a corporate taming of creativity
Whose city is it anyway?
How can Uber save its place in London’s taxi market?
Softly, softly.
What do new business rates pilots tell us about government’s appetite for devolution?
It's welcome, but is it effective?
It’s time to stop judging the north of England by the state of its high streets
Doom-mongering won’t save the north.
Here’s why you can’t bridge the north/south divide just by moving public sector jobs
It’s a skills thing.
What is the death of the British pub doing to our love lives?
Sex on CityMetric, Beryl! I shall write to my MP.
It’s a KIBS thing: Are some British cities going backwards?
Questions to which the answer is erm.
Could London really be a 24-hour city?
Up all night.
Bricking up Beijing: Could the end of the hutong mean the end of street life in the Chinese capital?
The ominous pile of bricks.
If you want to make new affordable housing, don't just think about the purchase price
A view from down under.
Music can improve our cities. So why isn’t music urbanism a thing?
Music for the masses.
London is set to be the biggest loser from any restrictive new migration policies
Oh, that’s a shock.
To tackle the housing crisis, ministers must end their dependence on the big builders
Set the market free.
Rebalancing the regions: How cities can help drive investment
Brought to you by Capital Real Estate.
What does the data say about London’s prospects for prosperity?
From migrants to NEETS.
Which British cities will be hit hardest by Brexit?
tl:dr, all of them.
To thrive again, local newspapers must go back to their community role
A local paper for local people.
Two east London boroughs are planning to tax nightlife to fund the clean up. Will it work?
Up all night.
How can we stop city breaks killing our cities?
Turnover is vanity, and profit margins are sanity.
Uber thought it was in a winner-takes-all market. So what went wrong?
It lost $2.8bn in 2016.
Australia financialised its housing market. What can be done?
A mess down under.
In Dreamland: Can gentrification save Margate?
Oh we do like to be besides the seaside.
Dockless bike-share has hit the UK. What will it do to our streets?
The rainbow wars.
“Love Happens Here” – but how do we keep it that way? On the threat to LGBT venues
Keeping the pride.
Three charts to show why everyone is so bloody furious all the time
Towards a British misery index.
How can we breathe new life into Britain’s town centres?
The new economy.
Australia vs the UK: How do mid-size cities perform?
Like the Ashes, but with cities.
The new Google Earth is spectacular. It’s also misleading
The dangers of desktop tourism.
Here’s why growing cities should tax land to pay for essential services
The infrastructure gap.
The ATM is 50. Here’s how a hole in the wall changed the world
A brief history of cash machines, obviously.
Employers could provide a unique new source of housing supply. Here’s how
Rethinking the crisis.
What would a higher minimum wage do to Britain’s cities?
Unintended consequences.
The ghost malls of Athens are icons of an urban crisis – but they could be the start of a Greek comeback
Aggro in the agora .
New immigration laws are hitting Britain's curry houses hard
Could murder a ruby.
Australias's airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
After the crash.
The anxiety about robots stealing jobs is overblown. Policymakers need to focus on more immediate threats
No more robot wars.
Podcast: Bouncing back
De-industrialisation and everything after.
Yes, £70,000 is a great salary – but it’s worth more in some places than others
The colour of money.
Want to grow the British economy? Learn the lessons of Germany's Mittelstand
The LibDem candidate to be mayor of the West Midlands on what we can learn from the German economy.
It’s time to break up Britain’s London-centric media
England-centric, too.
Where are Britain's biggest city economies?
Charts! Charts! Charts!
The chancellor has promised rate relief to London businesses – but the north will foot the bill
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Which city is the UK’s start-up capital?
Boom towns.
Forget picking winners: the government’s industrial strategy should focus on the places that are losing
Stuck places.
Why don’t high exports always lead to economic success?
Your questions disaggregated.
Here are five reasons why the business rates system doesn’t work
And how to fix it.
London’s music venues are recovering – but business rate review could stop them in their tracks
Time for a rethink.
Rural pubs are closing at an alarming rate
The heart of the community.
These charts show how wage growth has been terrible in most British cities for years now
The great British stagnation.
Which British and American cities will be most affected by May and Trump’s economic policies?
The new protectionism.
Is the new mayor of São Paulo Latin America’s answer to Donald Trump?
But Jo-ão did we get here?
We don't want no Silicon Valley – the Canadian city fighting for a new kind of tech hub
The Battle of Kitchener-Waterloo.
“When mining stops, the people there are left in extreme poverty”: on Africa’s foreign-owned mining enclaves
The left behind.
Are small northern market towns doomed to fail? A brief history of Kendal
Where did it all go wrong?
To build a strong nighttime economy, our city planners need to learn to feel the music
Can sick beatz make cities great again?
How Taiwan is inoculating itself against the Uber “virus”
And Airbnb is next.
The government’s Nissan deal should not be the blueprint for other Brexit trade agreements
Too many sectors, not enough time.
Why is Yorkshire so bad at exporting?
Answers on a postcard.
What can a map of Big Mac prices teach us about London?
McMapping the city.
Britain's city economies are “critically dependent” on the EU market for their exports
This is in no way worrying.
Why does poverty in Lafayette, Louisiana, teach us about developing creative talent?
The southern strategy.
“Less a prize than a problem”: restricting immigration & leaving the Single Market will hit London hard
Brexit means Brexit and we're going to make a hash of it.
Is the UK government finally getting serious about industrial strategy?
The march of the makers.
Which of Europe's capitals has the most to gain from Brexit-fearing businesses fleeing London?
A plague on both your Brexits
How did London come to be the world’s greatest financial hub?
The rise – and fall? – of the City of London.
Here's why the north can't rely on the public sector to attract graduates
The crowding-out myth.
Most of Britain is poorer than the European average, and other things we learned from this map
But Brexit means Brexit.
Amsterdam’s council has helpfully explained that it only wants rich tourists in future
They're better than you, I'm afraid.
Where do Britain's graduates move to – and why?
Exploring the brain drain.
London's skyscrapers are a monument to the city's worship of finance
All praise Mammon!
“Wherever you go will be the same”: how the over-curated city may mean the boring city
Co-boring spaces.
How badly would cuts to international student visas hurt UK city economies?
As it turns out: very, very badly.
In which British cities do people work from home?
Land of Hope and Pyjamas
The West Midlands needs to address its dismal employment rates
The left behind.
Patently obvious: Which European cities are the most inventive?
A patent on both your houses
Here's why we should all be cool with private firms should sponsoring metro stations
Times are tight.
Why is Airbnb welcomed in some cities, and under fire in others?
Competition vs collaboration.
Here's what Newcastle's Grainger Market can teach us about regeneration
Food, glorious food.
Why are private delivery firms so terrible?
Missing presents and parcels in bins.
Why are rich modern cities so obsessed with street food?
Time Out of mind.
Britain’s night time economy is booming. So why isn’t the restaurant trade making the most of it?
Dining out on this.
Here's what anchor universities add to UK city economies
The knowledge ecosystem.
“We call for more wine without investing in the vineyard”: why we should care more about construction skills
Australia downskilled.
Can night mayors make cities' dreams come true?
Come on, that's a top pun.
Autumn statement: Letting fees are awful, and Philip Hammond is right to ban them
A sad day for the noble guild of estate agents.
Will Brexit pose a risk to British architecture and design?
A consultant writes.
To learn from their European counterparts, UK cities must compare like-with-like
Apples and oranges.
Melbourne shows how Airbnb is reshaping our cities
Share and share alike.
Quiz: Can you identify the UK city from its European “twins”?
This is a hard one.
Why do modern London housing developments always come with supermarkets?
Attack of the clones.
Australia's gaming industry shows that cities need to rethink their creative economy
From clusters to networks.
In skills and productivity, the Northern Powerhouse looks more like eastern Europe
From Sheffield to Sofia.
Here's how “night czars” can help London's nightlife survive
All night long.
How can cities use the sharing economy to solve urban problems?
The shareable city.
The decision to expand Heathrow is a betrayal of the Attlee government's New Towns programme
“To create jobs in Berkshire, it will take jobs from Sussex.”
Bohemian Saudis and ex-banker hotel clerks: What happens to a city when its offices die out?
Imagine there’s no photocopier.
How Birmingham is using property development to re-tool its economy
The big city plan
To fix Britain's economy we need to bridge the gap between cities – and the inequalities between them
Fabulous prizes to be won.
How does the economy of Liverpool compare with similar cities?
This could be Rotterdam or anywhere, Liverpool, or Nice.
The Aberfan coal disaster was a distinctively Welsh tragedy
Bread and roses.
Here's why building more houses isn't enough to bring prices down
Build more bloody non-market houses.
Every time the government delays its decision on expanding Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol sends a cake
Awww.
Reviving Joseph Chamberlain: How Wolverhampton is using municipal power to build a new economy
Part two of our Midlands Odyssey.
How does the economy of Birmingham compare with similar cities?
Bad news, everyone.
What will the rise of long-distance commuting do to Australia's cities?
Take the long way home.
Which European cities have seen the worst unemployment?
As of 2011, anyway.
How did Roman coins end up in a medieval Japanese castle?
History corner.
Beyond boomgoggling: Five steps to a good city economy
When the alternative isn't.
The Victorian information superhighway: the story of the first trans-Atlantic telegraphy cable
Cheating time and space.
How can Europe's cities ensure their citizens have the right skills?
Looking for a mind at work.
This chart shows how badly Britain’s major cities are underperforming economically
Rejoice! Rejoice!
British cities are falling behind their European competitors – so what do we do?
Funny how this didn't come up in the referendum.
Why are Britain's nightclubs closing?
Party's over.
The vast majority of British cities are less productive than the European average
We need to stop telling ourselves we're a rich country.
Here's how China's ancient capital Nanjing is trying to emulate London's creative economy
A tale of two cities.
Could a regional banking system close the north-south divide?
Lessons from history, Germany and the US.
Why do some businesses prefer cities, while others flock to suburbia?
An economic geography lesson.
This is how dependent the British economy is on its city centres
One square foot of real estate.
Hull has cream telephone boxes – and they're still driving the city's tech policy today
The pros and cons of independent telecoms.
“The Manchester miracle”: how did a city in decline become the poster child for urban regeneration?
Bouncing back.
Will Brexit end London's reign as financial capital of Europe? Probably not
Come at the king, you'd best not miss.
Quiz: Can you find Birmingham on these charts?
Urban data nerds assemble!
Mildly depressing housing chart of the week: summer doldrums
A new feature that'll appear in the regular slot of whenever we can be bothered.
Over 135,000 Londoners signed a petition to save Fabric – then just three councillors decided to close it
After parties.
Uber claims it opens cities up – but really closes them down
Hello goodbye.
Councils are granting enough planning permissions – so why aren't we building housing?
Mind the gap.
“In fact, cities are the key drivers in trade”: in the wake of Brexit, we need devolution more than ever
Brexit economics.
Quiz: Can you name the British city from a chart of its economy?
Mmmm.... knowledge-intensive business services...
Is the night tube good for London?
Well, it depends how you count...
Tax data shows the north's city regions are increasingly dependent on their urban cores
Crunching the numbers.
Amazing city promotional campaigns of our time: Kojak pretends to visit Birmingham
And Aberdeen, and Portsmouth.
The great British housing crisis: where has affordability deteriorated most?
Bringing you sunshine again.
Six things we learned from today’s ONS house price index
Spoilers: you’re stuffed.
Five ways Britain’s industrial strategy can make the most of devolution
The powerhouse is dead – long live the powerhouse.
Is Berlin ready to be Europe's tech capital?
I am a camera.
Housing costs are strangling the economy – but not in the places you think
Don't be so London-centric, you lot.
What did Brexit tell us about regional economic development policy?
It's a skills thing.
Is Sheffield falling behind?
Steel-ers squeal.
Will Brexit hit housebuilding? The signs aren't good
Reasons to be fearful.
Dutch cities are secretly tracking people’s phones to gather data on visitors’ behaviour
Big brother.
London is funding the rest of the UK, and other things we just learned about the nation's taxes
This should win us some friends.
Lessons from Moscow: Manchester should focus on what it does best – and what it could do better
Never mind the capital.
Want to help UK cities thrive? Give them their share of corporation tax
Aligning incentives.
“The vultures are circling”: post-Brexit, other cities are plotting to displace London as Europe's business capital
Who wants to be a world city anyway?
In 2008, the Baltic Triangle barely had street lights. Now it’s Liverpool’s most cutting-edge creative quarter
Community interest.
Let the hunger games begin: UberEats, the Uber for food delivery, has launched in London
Pronto vs Deliveroo vs Just Eat vs UberEats.
Amazing city promotional campaigns of our time: “Would you, in Łódź?”
Łódz you believe it.
What can cities do to help tackle inequality?
For richer, for poorer.
The rise of contactless payments: Or, how Brexit could make it more expensive to go to the loo on holiday
Spend a penny.
Would Brexit really make house prices more affordable?
Fact checked.
In some UK cities, residents are eight times more likely to have no qualifications than in others
The educational divide.
Why the Land Registry sale is a terrible idea
Bucks before sense.
Between 2001 and 2011, home ownership rates fell in every British city – except one
Step forward Barnsley.
“We have a great reputation in the industry”: the day the gas man broke into my house
Breaking and entering.
Rebuilding Baltimore: How can US cities become more economically resilient?
's all in the game, yo.
Who are the most important British monarchs? (As judged using pub names)
A right royal piss up.
A London gym may soon offer spin classes on buses
The wheels on the bus.
All aboard: Notes from London's Kleptocracy tour bus
Magical mystery tour.
The farmers working 33m underground in a TfL tunnel
A tunnel vision.
“The i-sore”: Will Brighton’s new i360 observation tower ever win over the public?
I can see for miles and miles.
New “flexible” work spaces could be under threat from soaring property prices
Questions to which the answer is yes.
As another London club closes, Amsterdam shows why we need a “night mayor”
Best. Job title. Ever.
This data visualisation shows the path of every trade ship in the world over the course of 2012
Ahoy there.
“The Athens or Rhodes of the global economy”: what role do universities play in London life?
Changing places, changing roles.
Which British cities have the highest carbon emissions?
They might not have them for long.
Seven maps and charts about London's housing market which will make you sad
Everything's going to be fine.
How to transform empty office blocks – with a simple change in the rules
Make do and mend.
The north-south divide in England's youth unemployment rate is still the size of a chasm
Corrections and clarifications.
Can London's farmers survive the housing crisis?
The fat of the land.
The progressive case for Uber
Share and share alike.
It could take London's Garden Bridge 50 years to repay the money the state is loaning it
Great work, guys!
The north-south divide in England's unemployment rate is basically the size of a chasm
What the hell is with this country?
Toronto shows how we can save Britain's music venues – and build more housing at the same time
Two for one.
Want the economy to grow? We need to make cities more efficient
Mayors can save the world.
Google (aka Alphabet) is launching its wi-fi balloons this year
99 wi-fi balloons.
Southend is Britain's only high-wage, high-welfare city. What gives?
Old people and commuters, mostly.
Britain's cities are generating wealth far beyond their boundaries. Wage statistics prove it
The hinterland.
British house sales have fallen. Yet more and more people are buying in the most expensive places
The paradox of housing economics.
Britain's cities are 14% more productive than the rest of the country – but the north-south divide remains
North and south.
These cartoon people are advertising luxury apartments. So why do they look so depressed?
So very, very wistful.
Which cities get the most international visitors?
Top of the pops, but for business travellers with expense accounts.
Here's why satellite towns shouldn't be ignored in the devolution debate
Talk of the town.
This is why loads of business closures can be good for a city
Creative destruction.
What a map of the UK's 1,650 branches of Greggs can tell us about the British high street
You did ask.
No change? This app lets you pay buskers by card
Cash not carried.
Is Airbnb changing our idea of the “authentic” urban experience?
The suburbs shall rise again.
Which cities have the world's richest workers – and how can you use fast food to prove it?
Nom nom nom.
London’s suburbs are increasingly just dormitory towns. And there’s not much we can do to stop it
The periphery cannot hold.
Patents granted: Where are Britain's most inventive cities?
Silicon Fen strikes again.
What turns a city into a music superstar?
Lessons from Reykjavik, lessons for Melbourne.
This is why Amsterdam, Barcelona and Venice are all trying to clamp down on tourists
A tale of three cities.
What does devolution mean for British business?
Shining a light.
Here's how developers wriggle out of building enough affordable housing
The dark art of viability assessments.
Are booming cities always growing cities too?
It's the economy, stupid.
Here's why a manufacturing revival won't save the north of England
The wrong rebalancing.
The week in Airbnb drama
Airbnbrouhaha.
The London Living Wage isn't enough. It's time for a London Minimum Wage, too
Up to £8 an hour would be ideal.
In Bristol, a vibrant tech sector is driving a creative renaissance, too
Non-conformism, curiosity and innovation.
How can British cities attract start ups?
We can't all be Silicon Fen.
Factory towns: Which British cities still have big manufacturing industries?
March of the makers.
Are umbrellas the next frontier in the sharing economy?
Uber, but for keeping your hair dry.
These maps show deprivation in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and other large English cities
Inner city grit.
The economic case for density: how Australia can fix its cities
Cities with Answers.
Do the latest deprivation figures show poorer Londoners being pushed to the suburbs?
A centrifugal force.
Making smart cities work for people. No 4. Crowdfunding for Plymouth
Put your money where your mouth is.
Where in Britain are house prices still below their previous peak? There's a map for that
Not enough people being sent to Coventry.
Are music venues as valuable as houses – and can we prove it?
Making the case.
Where are England's most deprived communities?
Islington's less posh than you think.
Devolution: could cutting business rates attract new businesses to councils?
Race to the bottom?
How should the British government deal with the Teesside steel closure?
Time to foster new industries in Middlesbrough.
Santiago’s new skyscraper, the tallest in Latin America, is an engineering marvel. It’s standing almost empty
The southern hemisphere's premiere white elephant.
Coming soon: advertising billboards that can read your emotions
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Where are Britain's cheapest houses?
The other end of the ladder.
Where could London build more housing? The city's population density black holes, mapped
Fill in the blanks.
You can now rent an old red telephone box to run a business from
Like superman, but for coffee.
Only bottom up development can end the housing crisis and regenerate our cities
Start from the bottom.
Where are Britain's most expensive houses?
The golden triangle strikes again.
Kuala Lumpur is building a whole new district to house its nightlife
Party time, excellent.
Uber will collect your refugee donations for free today
Swallow your Uber-hatred, it's for a good cause.
Here's how we can save the car – and save the planet at the same time
Rewiring the auto industry.
Here's why British cities with more jobs tend to have higher wages, too
A dismal correlation.
Economically speaking, Britain is losing three or four cities a year. Blame longer commutes
The surprising revelations of Travel to Work Areas.
Which British cities have the best and worst employment rates?
The Watford Gap again.
A brief guide to Tianjin, past, present and future
China's cities have made history. Now it's time to make them safer
City centres have been the fastest growing parts of Britain's cities over the last 10 years
The return of urban living.
Britain's fastest growing cities are all in the south – and its shrinking ones all in the north
Economics as demographics.
For London to live up to its promise, employers need to recruit from outside their comfort zone
"We cannot build a socially mobile society simply on the backs of entrepreneurs."
Lagos is planning to build West Africa's answer to Dubai. It's not thinking big enough
A petri dish for a new kind of African city.
Which British cities are most dependent on the state?
It's a little bit more complicated than that actually.
Where are the UK’s most productive cities?
It’s not as simple as north vs south.
Could an Uber for apartments help solve Australia's housing problems?
An Uber, but for articles about Uber.
How do you map a city with no centre? Commuting patterns in the San Francisco Bay area
The centre cannot hold.
How did London become ground zero for the global plutocracy?
The safest place to hide your money.
New Yorkers eat more pizza than Italians, and other lessons from this Instagram food map
Mmmm... fast food...
Britain's planning rules are ruining its music industry. Here's how
The tyranny of viability.
To make our cities truly accessible, we need to start subsiding Uber
Seriously, we do.
Israel's postal service is removing half the country's mailboxes
Snail mail no more.
Does estate renewal really boost the local economy? The evidence suggests otherwise
Mostly it just boosts property prices, so yay.
Flights to Scotland and the north are being squeezed out. That's why we need to expand Heathrow
Domestic destinations served from Heathrow: 19 in 1990, 7 in 2014.
The UK's hub airport isn't London Heathrow. It's Amsterdam Schiphol
Running the numbers.
London has lost a quarter of its live music venues in just eight years. It needs to rethink its policies
Maintaining a music city.
Here's why High Streets should be less about shopping and more about socialising
Rethinking public space.
To rebalance Britain's economy, we need to move the government out of London
Stop messing about.
The Archway story: how to gentrify your neighbourhood, in 5 easy steps
A north London makeover.
Does a thriving tech sector really benefit a city – or does it just increase inequality?
Planners take note.
Shopping mall design could nudge shoplifters into doing the right thing – here’s how
Cutting crime through design.
These maps show the polycentric nature of southern England
London isn't everything.
"The Etsy effect": Newcastle, New South Wales, and how creativity can revive a struggling city economy
Tales from down under.
A study has found that new homes don't lower house prices. But things aren't quite that simple
When are they ever?
This site lets you review your landlord
Power to renters.
Watch the City of London pulling in commuters from across the south east like an imploding star
What it says on the tin.
How does the north of England compare to the Ruhr or the Randstad?
Crunching the numbers.
Turns out that having a highly-skilled population doesn’t create more low-skilled jobs
Dreams don't come true.
These terrifying sleeping pods mean you never have to leave work
No sleep for the driven.
San Francisco needs more affordable housing — not a housing moratorium
It's the economics, stupid.
Beautiful old houses are selling really, really cheaply in Cleveland
A tale of two housing crises.
Hamburgers and crossing borders: branding Maastricht
More than treaties.
Droughts are nothing new. So why didn't São Paulo's water provider have a back-up plan?
Privatisation in action.
Which British city has had the worst recession?
Reasons to be cheerful.
Are rent controls actually a good idea – or will they just make everything worse?
Both sides of the argument
Music venues are hubs for entrepreneurship. Cities should support them
Hubs of innovation.
Developer who demolished Kilburn pub without permission is ordered to rebuild it "brick by brick"
A cautionary tale.
Oslo has joined the dozens of cities pledging to divest their holdings in the fossil fuel industry
Ethical investors.
London's next mayor must be able to control rents and raise wages
Like Boris, but with superpowers.
Why London should bid to be the next City of Culture
A year of cultural excitement in Zones two to six.
Rome celebrates its 2,768th birthday
Roman holiday.
Uber's handing out free breathalyser tests and rides in Toronto
Uber safe, not sorry.
Why all cities should have a Department of Food
Planning for hunger.
A developer demolished a pub in Kilburn without council permission
Where there's a will there's a way.
What exactly is a "lifestyle centre"? And is it just a dressed-up shopping mall?
Façade of authenticity.
A car company feels bad about cycling accidents, so it's handing out reflective spray to cyclists
The brand that wants to save your life.
Hailo hates the idea of driverless cars, so it's projecting drivers' faces onto buildings
"Heroing the faces", or something.
Japanese cities are using manga and anime statues to boost tourism
Bronze cartoons.
London’s population is being hollowed out
And it's happening most in the outer boroughs.
On Monday the Westfield Stratford shopping centre had security scanners and we don't know why
Nope, no idea.
"Music cities": on why municipal governments should think of their music industries when planning
Getting in tune.
Why do some cities create jobs, while others lose them?
The Centre for Cities has been crunching the data.
How will we finance the city infrastructure of the future?
Dr. Julie Kim explains.
London has more super-rich people than any other city in the world
It'll trickle down though, right? Right?
Barbers, dyers, tailors: India's street traders can meet almost any consumer demand
More than a tenth of the urban economy.
Amsterdam has an Airbnb for cycle hire
On my bike.
Sydney risks becoming a disposable city for the rich
Sell, sell, sell.
Cities' productivity is proportional to their size – unless they're British
Yet another case for devolution.
London doesn't only need houses – we should protect its industrial land, too
A city needs jobs, goods and services, too.
Europe’s post-crash ghost towns
Boom and bust.
The towers of Moscow's commercial district are standing half empty
Feeling ambitious.
No, sheds in London are not selling for £280,000
At least, not yet.
10 objective reasons why London is better than New York
Completely objective reasoning.
How did London escape the Great Recession?
Not just surviving, but thriving.
Most of the UK's tech industry isn't in London
Silicon Hull.
London may be pricing out talent – but that doesn’t mean the rest of Britain stands to benefit
The goose that laid the golden egg.
Nearly half of UK MPs don't want to spend any money preparing for driverless cars
Mostly because they don't know much about them.
The cities of southern England are undergoing a population boom
But growth creates its own challenges.
The cities of southern England are undergoing a population boom
But growth creates its own challenges.
UK rail fares aren't just overpriced – they're confusing and unfair, too
We need to get back on track.
India's recent spate of sexual violence is driving tourists to other destinations
Not so incredible India.
Your local indie coffee shop may be a Stealth Starbucks
Hipsters beware.
Charts: Dubai main airport just became the busiest international airport in the world
Climbing the ranks.
If London is to cope with its growing population, the city needs greater devolution
I see your 8.6m Londoners, and raise you 10m.
Chinese visitors are shunning London
In 2013, the British capital received fewer Chinese tourists than Vancouver or Cairns.
This week's Uber scandal: the drivers who throw gay couples out of their cabs
Disrupting decency.
Russian buyers flood into/out of London property market, sending prices soaring/tumbling
Got that? Good.
Why cities need public transport to be competitive
It's the economy, stupid.
Price of theoretical London flats soars by half in six months
Playing the futures market.
Why business clusters are an increasingly urban affair
Breeding Innovation.
Is manufacturing moving back to cities?
The industrial revolution, take 3.
Experts confirm London house price fall
Rejoice! Or not.
Chart: Joining the EU caused a property bubble in the Baltics
We're rich! We're not rich.
Hong Kong's protesters aren't scaring off business
Occupy Central.
Mapping London's residential rents
Reach for the skies!
Chart: US home ownership rates at 20 year low
Locked out.
Busting the myth of China’s property bubble
Prices are levelling, not falling.
Uber fired a driver for tweeting mean stuff about them
They also have a really embarrassing email signoff.
Chart: Mexico City moved its manufacturing sector elsewhere to make way for a new service economy
And it actually worked out pretty well.
“Buccaneering, wealth-creating families were replaced by councillors”: Lord Heseltine talks to CityMetric
Devolution, growth, and leaving no stone left unturned.
Which city has the most bubble-tastic luxury property market?
No, it isn’t London.
Nine US cities have set their own minimum wages. Could British ones follow?
When one size doesn’t fit all.
Italy's north-south divide in one chart
You think we’ve got problems.
Dubai still hazy on ETA of world's largest theme park
But that was the best bit.
Ill-thought out blogpost thanks teachers for choosing Uber to provide their second income
Thank you for struggling to make ends meet.
A Victorian house in California could be sold for $1
...but there’s a catch.
The Digital Bottleneck: why the UK needs Gigabit Cities
Sponsored post: CityFibre discusses how to upgrade Britain's digital infrastructure.
London is now the most expensive major city in which to base a business
Showing Hong Kong who's boss.
Shanghai is planning the world’s largest polar theme park
So many questions.
9 unlikely cities pegged as the financial capitals of tomorrow
The future is Busan, apparently.
Chart: Struggling Scottish cities were more likely to vote for independence than affluent ones
The role of unemployment and wages in #indyref.
The London problem in two charts
The capital's economy: bigger than the next eight English cities combined
Chart: Glasgow's growth is lagging behind other Scottish cities
The city's economy has barely grown in a decade.
Dubai is spending $32bn on building the world's largest airport
My name is Al Maktoum International, airport of airports.
6 things we learnt from The Instant City
Flatpack cities could be on their way.
Where are the best and worse places to be an expat?
We crunch the numbers.
Chart: Hong Kong on course to be China’s 9th city within a decade
Chongqing, Chengdu and Wuhan all set to overtake by 2022.
Starbucks is launching different stores depending on how classy your area is
No roastery for you.
Chart: Why the French government wants to tackle Paris’s housing crisis
Dreaming of a Parisian pied-à-terre? Dream on.
Airbnb hosts are suing the company for handing their data to the New York authorities
Not so hospitable after all.
Chart: Peru’s cities need to find alternatives to mining
Fields of gold.
Chart: Bulgaria’s second city has one of Europe's biggest manufacturing sectors
And the pollution to go with it.
Chart: No one goes to Madrid in summer
Dry season.
Chart: The Christchurch earthquake has led to a construction boom
Rebuilding the rubble.
Why do most city branding campaigns fail?
Actions speak louder than words.
Here’s why the London housing market might have peaked
Reasons to be cheerful.
10 African cities whose economic importance will triple by 2030
Alert the C-suite.
Chart: Labour flocks to Europe's cosmopolitan centres
Berlin welcomes careful workers.
If you live in Sheffield you probably can't read this
When it comes to internet speeds, some cities are more equal than others.
A controversial new app tells you where the “sketchy” parts of US cities are
Developers face questions about whether this counts as racist.
Chart: If you want a cheap house, don't go to Australia
Perth's house prices have doubled in five years
Why skyscrapers show capitalism at its worst – and its most sublime
On the hubristic desire to mine money from the air.
Chart: You’ve probably never heard of Canada’s richest cities
Toronto isn't one of them.
Stratford or the Royal Docks: the race to be London’s third business district
Two Newham districts are vying to host 80,000 new jobs. But can they really compete against central London or Canary Wharf?
Central London properties, minus the sky-high rents. But what’s the catch?
Who's guarding the guardians?
Chart: Abu Dhabi ascends, Dubai rebounds
But Ajman may be the one to watch.
Chart: Which European city relies most on the financial sector?
No, it isn’t London.
Uber is now integrated into Google Maps and the New York Subway
It's easier than ever to experience surge pricing.
The London development without a poor door
Because providing affordable housing is too expensive.
Public transport bodies: producing lots of data, not necessarily making the most of it
Private developers still make the best apps.
Could the UK’s next big export be urban development?
We already have a “future cities industry”, apparently.
A London skyscraper is about to be renamed the Salesforce Tower
Always be closing.
Dubai's property developers are going nuts again
World's largest. World's largest. World's largest.
London has more branches of Starbucks than any EU country
And not one of them is in Hackney.
Believe it or not, London doesn't have enough offices
We're demolishing the equivalent of seven Shards, says Deloitte.
