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Cool Spaces

Posted on Monday 18 July 2022 by Oliver O’Brien

It’s very hot in London today, and tomorrow. It’s best not to be out and about at all, but if you need to be in London, there are some places which may be cooler than others – public venues with air conditioning, some tubes/trains (if…

canopy, cold, cool, data, Events, fountains, gla, heat, hot, summer, trees, Water

Secret Rivers

Posted on Friday 24 January 2020 by Oliver O’Brien

London has a lot more rivers than just the River Thames and River Lea – but many of the rest are either very small and easily overlooked, or buried underground (culverted), typically by industrious Victorians looking to clean up channels that bec…

Art, hidden, lost rivers, Olivia Whitworth, revealed, river, River Lea, River Thames, rivers, Secret London, Water, Whitworth

London Bay

Posted on Wednesday 9 August 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

It’s a typical August day in London today, with the rain falling pretty heavily and at least one tube station closed due to flooding. London’s greatest long-term flooding threat, though, is from isothermal expansion of the world’s water (i.e. it needs slightly more space as it heats) due to climate change. The above map was […]

Art, Climate Central, climate change, data, flooding, global warming, isothermic, Jeffrey Linn, London Bay, melting, sea level rise, sea levels, underwater, Water

London’s Canals & Rivers

Posted on Tuesday 19 April 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

These attractive hand-drawn maps have been produced for a pocket guide “London’s Canals & Rivers” published by the Canal & River Trust by illustrator and cartographer Bek Cruddace. They show the navigable waterways around London, including the Thames and Lea Rivers and the Regent’s and Grand Union canals. The maps are designed for walkers and […]

Bek Cruddace, boat, boats, canal, canals, river, River Thames, Tourist, Water, waterway

The Rivers of London

Posted on Tuesday 27 January 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

This is a new work by Stephen Walter, in his characteri […]

Art, black and white, hand drawn, river, rivers, Stephen Walter, tag fine arts, Walter, Water, waterways

The Other Underground Network

Posted on Tuesday 10 June 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

London has many networks – roads, tube trains, el […]

Bazelgette, Historic, network, sewers, Water

London by Water

Posted on Wednesday 5 February 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

Travelling around London is a little harder today. With […]

beck, boat, boats, canal, diagram, river, rivers, thames, tube, visualisation, Water, waterway

The London Thames

Posted on Friday 13 September 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

The London Thames is a new poster – a small extra […]

Art, bridges, fathers, history, Information, poster, river, thames, Water

Public engagement with water conservation in London

Posted on Thursday 10 February 2011 by mukih

In 2009, Ud Doron, who studied on our MSc in Environmental Systems Engineering developed a research project together with Tse-Hui Teh, who is doing her PhD on urban water issues. The project was co-supervised by Sarah Bell. The focus of the project was on a series of participatory workshops to understand the relationships between urban […]

Environment, Environmental information, focus groups, infrastructure, MSc projects, Papers, Research projects, Water, Water Resources