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Highlighting the best maps of London. Mapping people, places, data, things. Twitter (@MapLondon)Authors
Ollie O'Brien (@oobr)
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UCL CASA (Blog)Recommended Books (Amazon Links)
The Times Atlas of London . A new book which goes into London in great detail. Includes some work by MappingLondon's James - a names map of London. (review)
London Street Atlas (spiral) (A-Z Street Atlas) by the Geographer's A-Z Map Company. We couldn't resist including this iconic, classic London atlas. The original and still the best?
Shaping London by Terry Farrell . We recently went to see a lecture by Sir Terry Farrell on patterns in London, he used many great examples from his book here. (review)
London's Lost Rivers by Paul Talling . It's not about maps but we like it.
London: The Illustrated History by the Museum of London
Underground Maps After Beck by Maxwell J Roberts
Mapping London: Making Sense of the City by Simon Foxell
London: A Life in Maps by Peter Whitfield Blogs
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Demographics Archive
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The Index of Multiple Deprivation as a Map
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 1 Comment“Geodemographics of Housing in Great Britain – a new visualisation in the style of Charles Booth’s map” is a map that I have produced that shows the Index of Multiple...Continue Reading...
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London: A Year in Maps
Posted on December 12, 2011 | 5 CommentsMapping London editors James and Ollie look back at some of the many maps produced each year in London to highlight the highs and lows of London life. As you...Continue Reading...
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Shaping London
Posted on November 10, 2011 | 1 CommentDuncan Smith, a colleague of ours, has written a great review of the “Shaping London” book for his Urban Geographics blog. He has kindly let us share it with you...Continue Reading...
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GCSE Scores and Poverty in London
Posted on August 24, 2011 | 2 CommentsThis week, thousands of teenagers across the capital will receive GCSE results that will likely have an impact on the life decisions they take over the coming years. Back in March...Continue Reading...
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A Multidimensional Geodemographic Map
Posted on May 19, 2011 | No CommentsDaniel Lewis, a Geography Ph.D student at UCL, has produced this map of inner London, using multidimensional scaling (MDS) to simultaneously depict 41 geodemographic measures of each area.Continue Reading...
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The Booth Poverty Map
Posted on April 11, 2011 | 2 CommentsCharles Booth’s 1899 Poverty Map of London is a seminal work in the history of London maps and the development of geodemographics (characterising people based on where they live) which...Continue Reading...
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MurderMap
Posted on March 30, 2011 | No CommentsMurderMap is a manually curated map of homicides in London, based on records from the Central Criminal Court, aka the Old Bailey. The map’s creators are building an online database...Continue Reading...
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Changing Deprivation in London
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 3 CommentsChris Gale, a fellow UCL Geographer, has produced these maps showing the change in deprivation scores in London between 2007 and 2010. They show a measure called the Index of...Continue Reading...
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John Snow’s Cholera Map
Posted on March 9, 2011 | 2 CommentsEmbedded below is a high resolution version of John Snow’s 1854 map of the Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) cholera outbreak. Widely cited as the one of the first (and...Continue Reading...
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London Funding Cuts and Child Poverty
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe map is a cartogram showing the level of child poverty for each of London’s councils in addition to their predicted loss in revenue spending power resulting from the recent...Continue Reading...
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