Category: London Underground
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London plc. in 2026: 10 years on from the ashes of Brexit, a City-Corporation flourishes
Having been CEO of London plc. for 5 years now, Stuart Gulliver can step down from the role knowing that he will go into the history books as perhaps the greatest businessman of all time. London wasn’t even a company when he took over, and today in 2026, it is…
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A city’s obsession: A commentary on the BBC’s ‘London and the Rest’
The show currently on BBC2, Mind the Gap, is well worth a watch as it covers many of themes that are important to modern urban geographical studies (you can watch it on the iPlayer, but only till 17th March), notably those being taught at undergradute level, not least by me…
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The Urban Communicate: From T-Mobile to the Love Police via the Reichstag
Having just been reading up on the ‘Media City’ (the academic fundamentals of which are articulated very acutely by Scott McQuire’s 2008 book, which I have just finished reviewing for the Urban Geography Research Group), the ways in which technology, consumption, networks and the city collide in contemporary society are becoming increasingly apparent,…
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Underground Music
The London Underground system, known as ‘the Tube’ is often held up as the quintessential underground network map as it navigates the city dwellers to and from their starting point and destination with ease, in contrast to the complex and non-grid-lined road layout of the above ground roads (Vertesi, 2008).…
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