London #transpo data visualizations made in the 1910s, 20s, 30s

via @urbandata

London’s Daytime Population

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New London in the Future, 1909

3D Map of London’s Urban Complexity

(Source: digitalurban.org)

If you total the distances covered by the Tube rolling stock at peak times, this map shows how far they travel each day. The Central Line wins with over 13,000km – the equivalent of almost reaching Australia! In humble last place is the Waterloo and City Line that just passes Dublin with a little over 500km travelled.

Foster plan would transform infrastructure

“Thames Hub” proposals being unveiled on Wednesday could lead to the most radical overhaul of Britain’s transport, logistics and communication network since the building of the railways.

London as seen from ISS

Unfinished London. Freeways never built

Original in spanish, text via Google Translate

This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen on urban issues, is a piece of 12 minutes worth seeing. A satiric touch and a little humor to present a topic that usually tend to do too boring or too brainy and deserves to be number 76 of the list of videos on urban issues that I have out there.

Plans at the time of Abercrombie raised to give a definitive solution to the problem of t IGURE in London. There are always those who want to give definitive solutions to these things and usually the ultimate solution lies in building large infrastructure that, in the case of the British capital, consisting of a ring road mesh more or less concentric. It goes without saying that when you see the plan drawn on the map, you will come to mind any examples of urban transport networks are very similar.

Through a well planned combination of maps and images of reality in the video you can see clearly how different ringways he was planning to build in London have not reached far from complete, which would have involved the construction and even , how in the constructed parts have been sleeping the sleep of the just spaces reserved for connections between ring roads and paved to have finally finished getting nowhere. There is also time to mention the social opposition to these plans generated and, above all, to understand how economic rationality which has been abandoned these plans, a rationality that, in our case, has been conspicuous by its absence in other infrastructure projects transport we have developed here in recent years.

As far as I can know, Jay Foreman is comedian and musician (I do not know if it is one thing before the other) and, apparently, these issues seem interesting. You can find another video just as good on the plans never developed Northern Heights in the North West.

Report urges London mayor to act on privatisation of public space

Mayor of London Boris Johnson is being urged to use his planning powers to control the creeping “privatisation” of public space in the capital.

The report by the London Assembly ’Public Life in Private Hands’ published yesterday, raises concerns about the growing trend for developers to retain control of public space in their schemes instead of handing them over to the local authority.

via @JmEzquiaga

This is so funny!

Unfinished London - In the 70s, an ambitious road-building project called ‘Ringways’ was cancelled and London narrowly escaped a fate much worse than traffic jams.