London’s most common second languages tube map

If diversity is wealth these are the ten richest cities in the world: Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Sydney, Paris, Los Angeles, Manchester, London and New York, the city with the largest immigrant population in the world.

Everyone says that London is a multicultural city. But, why? The English capital have 8.308 million residents. In 2011, the 44.9% of the population were White British while the 37% were born outside United Kingdom. For that reason, in the capital it is possible to hear more than 300 different languages.

The traditional fish and chips shares customers with the Bhapaa Aloo, Tandoori chicken, Crepes, Pizza, Paella or Dumplings. In London it is possible to eat and drink anything that you want without the need to travel.

But also, London allows the possibility to get in touch with a big variety of dresses, religions, fashion trends and cultural offers.

If you had the chance to live or visit London during the Olympic Games 2012, you probably noticed that every single one of the competing countries had some representatives communities in the city. 

The Craft Breweries

"Founded in 2010 by Derek Lamberton, Blue Crow Media is an independent publisher dedicated to creating thoughtfully designed and carefully curated apps, maps and more." His last job, created in collaboration with DeskBeers, is The Craft Breweries. 

This exceptional map shows over 50 of London's craft breweries and includes some information, like year of foundation and location. Thanks to this work you can notice the fast grown of the craft beer in the city.

If you want one for yourself, it's available to buy it for £12.50 in their website, at Stanfords or Material Gallery.

The Coffee Houses

It was in the Muslim monasteries near Mocha, Yemen, in the middle of the 15th century, where the coffee seeds were roasted and brewed for the first time. 

By the 16th century, the coffee was not only a drink in Arabia but in all the Middle East, Persia, northern Africa and Turkey. 

Decades later, and thanks to the British East India Company, coffee became popular in England too. The Jamaica Coffee House, opened in 1652 by Pasqua Rosee, is the oldest one. Located in St Michael's Alley, in the City of London, is still opened after more than three hundred years.

The artist Adam Dant wanted to pay homage to these popular places with a new map. “I’ve always wanted to do a map of the Coffee Houses, because it marks a moment when intellectual activity had a parity with mercantile activity. They called them the penny universities”. And he explained, as well, that "there were thirty here in these streets behind the Royal Exchange, until a fire that started in a peruke shop burnt them all down. The only reason we know where they all were is because somebody was commissioned to draw a map of them, assessing the damage.”

Now you have another reason to get lost in between the beautiful and ambiguous passages and courtyards of the City.

The Taste of the Tube

All Londoners are familiar with the London Underground. The delays, the temperature and the smell are the most frequently complains. But there is a 54 years old man, James Wannerton, who has a particular relationship with the Tube and its stations because he is synesthetes.

The synaesthesia, as it is defined by the Oxford dictionary, is a neurological condition in which "the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body".

In other words, James's senses get mixed up and these are some of his experiences.

                  

The Football Map

Both the Football Association and London Underground are celebrating their 150th anniversary this year. The Metropolitan Railway, the oldest of the Underground, opened to the public on January 10, 1863. The FA was formed on October 26, 1863, at the Freemasons’ Tavern, near Holborn tube. 

To commemorate this historic moment, they worked together to create a new Tube map.

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Walk Around London

Yes. It’s true. London is a huge city. You can take the underground and the overground to arrive quickly to your destiny, if the lines are not closed. But if you really want to know the city, you have to walk through streets, parks, squares... It’s the best way to discover the secrets of London. 

Because of the 150th tube anniversary, PruHealth has created a singular map. It’s an underground plan showing the steps between stations. This could be a good way to have a healthy body this summer.

Super Mario Bros in the Tube

The English Harry Beck created the actual London Underground Tube map in 1931 in his break time while he was working as an engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office

Since then, lot of people want to reinvent it the famous map and modernize it. Reddit, user NaturalBeats, designed a new artistic map covering Zone 1. It’s the London Underground in Super Mario 3’s style.