On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:40:57 -0500, "Jonathan Osborne"
wrote:

Here's something I think would be interesting...

I'd like to see a tube map cut into zones representing the property values
of the area around the tube station. I don't know London that well, but I
know places like Amersham and Cockfosters are pretty wealthy areas, in
addition to the obvious central section.

Amersham isn't part of London by most definitions. It's an affluent
commuter town around 30 miles out, but unlike other comparable towns
it is served by the underground so appears on the tube map.
Cockfosters is respectable enough but personally I wouldn't describe
it as 'pretty wealthy'

I've heard areas around Limehouse
and Westferry are rather poor and depressed areas, for example.


As others have said, you need to take a ride on the DLR with your eyes
open:-) As its name suggests, Docklands is the area where London's
docks used to be, and at one time most of the housing in this area was
working-class housing for dock workers. However the docks became
disused after world war II, largely superseded by docks at Tilbury,
closer to the mouth of the Thames, which could accommodate larger
ships, and since then Docklands has been redeveloped with offices and
(expensive) housing. Parts of Limehouse and Westferry would have been
depressed thirty years ago but not now...

Could anyone whip up something like this? It would really help someone like
me, who loves the tube and wants to explore London using it, but doesn't
want to get off at a shady place and get mugged.


Nothing like a tube map, but if you know the postcode of a place then
http://www.upmystreet.com/ will give you average property prices for
an area, an ACORN classification which tells you the type of area.
Though I would be cautious of reading too much into this in terms of
the risk of being mugged.

Martin