Tag: Towns and cities

• The largest city on Earth: six thousand years of the world’s biggest cities

  

  From Uruk to Dhaka: I followed the title of the world’s largest city through 85 snapshots from 3700 BC to 2050. 30 cities have held it, Chinese capitals for most of seven centuries, London for about 99 years, and the centre of the urban world has wandered from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic and back to…

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  history, cities, population, world maps, Asia, Long view, Towns and cities, World

• Capitals that moved: every capital move since 1500, and how far each went

  

  184 moves of a capital since 1500, from St Petersburg to Brasília to Ciudad de la Paz. The longest was a flight: the Portuguese court, 7,716 km from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro in 1808.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Checked by hand, cities, Early modern, Government, history, Long view, Towns and cities, Wikidata, World

• How old is your neighbourhood?

  

  Every home in England and Wales has a build period on the Council Tax list. I mapped all 35,672 small areas: 21% of homes predate 1919 and 12% were built since 2009. Cities grow in rings of age, until recently, when the newest homes started coming back to the middle.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, buildings, cities, England, history, Housing, Place search, Present day, Towns and cities, Victorian, Wales

• Could your town fit in its stadium?

  

  Beaver Stadium could seat its township 9.9 times over and Clones could fit in St Tiernach’s Park 15.4 times. I found every sports ground in the world bigger than its town, and checked each one by hand.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, Data bias, Ireland, Place search, Present day, sport, Towns and cities, Wikidata, World, world maps

• Whereabouts World and Higher or Lower: World

  

  My two daily games go global: find the mystery country, capital, city, town, village or region anywhere on Earth, and pick which of two countries is higher on 67 measures from beer to bananas.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Browser games, Daily games, games, Geography games, Towns and cities, World, world maps