31st May 2024 by Yiqiao Chen
This blog summarises our recently published work on London’s night time economy. Purpose GLA Economics published an Evidence Base for a 24 Hour City in 2018 to support the Mayor of London, the Night Czar, the Night-Time Commission, and boroughs on night-time planning and strategies. The March 2024...
28th September 2023 by Adam Yousef
Introduction It is widely known that the tourism sector contributes considerably to the UK and London economies. Few events illustrate the extent of this impact better than the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a series of restrictive lock-down measures that impacted severely on domestic and...
30th March 2023 by Mike Hope
Last Summer there was a significant recovery in international tourism after it nearly fell to nothing during the pandemic. This supplement reports on what is driving those trends, and how they differ from pre-pandemic trends. GLA Economics also publishes tourism forecasts for both domestic and...
24th September 2018 by Hannah Goulding
We are hosting a whole day Sports Data Expedition on the 31st of October at City Hall and are looking for volunteers to take part. What is a data expedition? A data expedition is an event that brings together those that might hold data, policy makers and data scientists to gain insight on a chosen...
18th July 2018 by Nye Cominetti
In 2017 the GLA published a ‘pubs audit’, to look at what was happening to pubs in London. We recently updated this audit for 2018 – this blog outlines some of the findings. The 2017 audit showed that the number of pubs had fallen by a quarter since 2001. In response, the GLA has moved to protect...
25th July 2017 by Daryl Rozario
By Christopher Rocks, Economist. Since 1998 the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has grouped together sub-sectors as wide ranging as visual arts, advertising and computer services to classify and measure the ‘creative industries’. These sub-groups are described as: ‘those industries...
17th May 2015 by DataPress
The GLA has launched an interactive map of more than 130 start-up friendly office spaces and 200 artist studios to help SMEs find the right type of space. Users can search by factors including price, length of stay and types of business already in the building. Providers of workspaces are encouraged...
13th May 2015 by LarryAlton
Jukely, the new concert subscription service that’s quickly becoming popular in the U.S., has now crossed international borders and added London to its growing footprint. The service is commonly described as “the Netflix for live music” and uses complex data and algorithms to suggest bands and...
20th April 2015 by Gareth Piggott
Tube Tongues, by Oliver O’Brien of CASA, maps the most popularly spoken language after English (based on 2011 Census aggregate tables released by the ONS, via NOMIS) but instead of examining the population living near each tube station, it looks at the population of each ward in London. There are...
18th June 2014 by Gareth Piggott
A dazzling new app for iPhone and iPad plays with London’s geography in ways that’ll have you gawping with delight. London Jigsaw scrambles up the prominent features of the capital; it’s your job to drag them back to their appropriate locations. Can you coax the 32 London boroughs (plus the City) to...
12th October 2011 by Emer
Transport Museum Goes Digital for Thought Provoking Event Sense and The City Our friends in the London Transport Museum wanted us to flag this event. On Monday evening 17th October the digital arts organisation onedotzero will bring together artists and industry leaders from the worlds of art,...
3rd August 2011 by Guest Blogger
During the process of creating and developing an online community of Creative Agencies, as we have recently at http://siliconjunction.co.uk/, we find ourselves frequently presented with new opportunities to better represent that community – often in ways we hadn’t previously anticipated. One of...
6th July 2011 by Guest Blogger
People living and working across the capital have fantastic ideas about how to transform their neighbourhoods through social enterprise, but often don’t know where to start when it comes to identifying the premises and support that they need. Where can I find a space to try out my idea? How can I...
27th April 2011 by Guest Blogger
The Fantastic Tavern (TFT) is a meeting of minds online and at welcoming hostelries; a community of brand and agency digital planners & creatives who share insights, expertise, experience and beer. On 14th April 2011 50+ Taverners, some old some new, convened at The Horniman on the Southbank to...
8th February 2011 by Guest Blogger
Some interesting stories are beginning to be told through data and infographics. Microsoft (http://obieosobalu.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/infographic-an-overview-of-the-history-of-microsoft-in-the-last-10-years/) Foursquare and Old Spice have all put some useful examples together recently. The great...