geography

Familiar with Connaught Village, SoSho, Barking Reach and Archgate?

We’re doing a quiz at the Emirates…and it’s about mapping and stuff.

Would you prefer your Tube map to better reflect reality?

Every day we hear about new geo-aware games, multiplayer treasure hunts and other location-based frivolities. We can’t possibly cover them all. But this one is a must, simply for its beautiful execution and slightly warped playfulness. Mission: Explore London, from The Geography Collective, sets a …

Despite a last minute hitch with the organiser incapacitated and unable to attend, the London Red, Urban Story walk hiked it through housing and industrial estates from Waltham Cross to Shadwell yesterday, following a line through some of the city’s most deprived areas, as classified …

Good news for those who expect the world for Christmas (or for those of whom you think the world): the National Geographic Society have opened their first ever retail outlet on Regent Street. As Londonist’s old grand-pappy used to say: “Everything’s got a history, and …