The river snaking north-south on the left-hand edge of the map is the Brent. This is one of a tiny number of London ...

Britain's capital has undergone some dramatic changes over the centuries. Before structures like the Gherkin, the London Eye, and even Big Ben loomed over the city, it was home to bear-baiting pits ...

An exhibition at the British Library shows how historic maps project power, propaganda and art. In examples from London, heads on spikes, air-brushed slums and "al-fresco bonking" mark out the city's ...

Ever wondered what the oldest map of London is? Well, the oldest surviving complete map of the city dates back to the 1570s — and it's going on display in April, as part of Magnificent Maps of London ...

The city of London has grown into one of the largest urban zones in all of Europe, but it wasn't always the gigantic, sprawling city it is today. The cartographers at Axis Maps put together a set of ...

London is a city without an organizing principle. Its streets aren't numbered, like New York's, or lettered, like those in Washington, D.C. It's not laid out on a grid, like Chicago, and no Haussmann ...

At the heart of this clear, thorough study of the London Underground map’s evolution is the man whose brilliantly comprehensible design for an untidy city has never been surpassed This book’s title ...

This was the first large London map after the Great Fire remade the city Looking at this (above) 1682 map of London you cannot help but be impressed by the straight roads, the regal buildings and the ...