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November 3, 2007

199 – A Simplified Map of London

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Hilarious. Found in the Flickr group From Memory (Was: Maps From Memory).

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  1. I was just in London last week. I stayed with a friend in the ‘Losers’ section. :roll:

    Comment by Brian — November 3, 2007 @ 12:06 pm

  2. Now THAT did make me laugh… my entire family (derived from Wapping dockers) comes from the Losers!

    Comment by cogidubnus — November 3, 2007 @ 12:55 pm

  3. My wife and I lived in London for two years — this map is incredibly accurate! ;)

    Comment by Jake — November 3, 2007 @ 1:11 pm

  4. Rotate the map and you’ve got Seoul — the Rich in Apkujong and Gangnam with their condo towers.

    Comment by rek — November 3, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

  5. Hilarious… my entire family (derived from heads of state of Europe) comes from Very Rich!

    Comment by Mike — November 3, 2007 @ 4:59 pm

  6. My sole purpose in the WordPress blog was to be able to use “TrackBack”’s (still learning that one) and to test the Tags, and maybe a little to combign several webpages using the above.
    An Old Ole_Ship map tag of “Oyster”, not exactly the Virginia one; London’s just looks like an oyster holding a red pearl.
    The Humor so it seems of this map , is a simple gem here.

    Comment by oldship — November 3, 2007 @ 8:47 pm

  7. Could someone familiar with London tell me what area “Very Rich” is?

    Comment by Darrel Jones — November 3, 2007 @ 9:05 pm

  8. I’m not from London (or the U.K. for that matter), but I believe that’s the Westminster, Kensington, Chelsea area. I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of other neighborhoods in there.

    Comment by Boznia — November 3, 2007 @ 9:27 pm

  9. That map was obviously drawn by Monty Python’s “Upper Class Twit Of the Year”…
    ;)

    Comment by A.R.Yngve — November 4, 2007 @ 1:08 am

  10. Hey, that could be the map of Michigan! Except that it’s all losers, with enclaves of traitors in Ann Arbor and Dearborn.

    Comment by Cappy — November 4, 2007 @ 1:16 am

  11. Aaaaaaand you’re racist, Cappy.

    Comment by Travis — November 4, 2007 @ 2:30 am

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  13. The ‘pearl in the oyster’ comment was interesting.

    In some form, the idea of the pearl is part of the way wealthy neighborhoods are chosen and sited.

    The best areas for “cleanliness, healthiness, natural beauty, superior views, quick access to power or mercantile centers, egress in emergency” all come into play and are balanced out.

    Sometimes it back-fires, as in Berkley, California in the wildfires in the hills, about a decade ago, when everything burned due to poor access and egress. But, until then, it was the singular, prime turf to actually be able to view the beautiful skyline and “golden gate” of San Francisco. People were willing to take the risk. And the whole area has been rebuilt, even more ostentatiously, if smarter, than before.

    Most experts in Feng Shui, the Chinese art of Geomancy, understand the principles that go into recognizing the physical areas and then creating the wealthiest neighborhoods. That is partly why these neighborhoods always have a “special” aire about them. It is not just the wealth and beautiful architecture.

    Best to all — Em

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    Comment by em — November 4, 2007 @ 3:09 pm

  14. As the genius who created this image, may I thank everyone for their comments and invite you to see more of my work?

    Comment by ellis — November 4, 2007 @ 3:41 pm

  15. Its game of musical chairs, the residences will be switched at some time in future

    Comment by krsnakhandelwal — November 4, 2007 @ 4:47 pm

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  19. LOL – very funny!

    Comment by Jennifer in BC — November 5, 2007 @ 5:12 am

  20. Interesting stuff…lol.

    Comment by Vaibhav Pandey-->Technofriends Team — November 5, 2007 @ 11:39 am

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  22. And what if instead of “Very rich/Losers” we write for the same zones “England/Pakistan”?

    Sorry…

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  25. General rules of thumb: in a city the wealthier neighborhoods tend to be upwind, upriver, and uphill. Occasionally extreme geographic constraints will override those rules.

    In the case of London, the Thames was horribly polluted and smelly in the first half of the 18th century (look up “The Great Stink”). My guess is that the “Very Rich” area would be the westernmost part of London in 1850, and that the “Losers” area west of there developed after the Thames was cleaned up. (I should line up some historical maps of London to the above map to see.)

    Comment by Amit Patel — November 7, 2007 @ 12:46 am

  26. I saw something very similar sold at Burger King ;)

    Comment by popokolok — November 8, 2007 @ 3:28 pm

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  29. Very funny! I enjoy your blog – great idea and execution.

    Comment by picturepost — November 13, 2007 @ 2:41 pm

  30. It just goes to show you. It takes a lot of losers to support a few rich folks.

    Comment by Brian — November 13, 2007 @ 6:26 pm

  31. #25 Amit Patel – if #8 Boznia is right and the “Very Rich” bit is the “Westminster, Kensington, Chelsea area”, then you’re right.

    Comment by Giles — November 13, 2007 @ 9:26 pm

  32. I’d add the offices of the very rich to that on the end of the isle of dogs but otherwise very accurate.

    Comment by andy — November 20, 2007 @ 4:13 pm

  33. Have you seen the houses in Richmond or
    Hampstead? They don’t look like looser houses to me…

    There was actually an article in Time Out which mapped the London
    Boundary in relation to were the first Harvester eatery is located. So, were Harvester starts London stops.
    That is a clever way to show social divide within a city.

    Comment by eastender — November 22, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

  34. Haha. If you turn it 90 degrees clockwise, it’s exactly like those diagrams we had in Biology classes of the digestive system.

    1. Food goes in here (arrow points)
    2. Food gets digested here
    3. Mush goes through the intestines.
    4. Stuff comes out here.

    Good stuff
    Vicky

    Comment by lickerish — November 25, 2007 @ 7:25 pm

  35. Now that’s the funniest map that VideoDoc has ever seen lol

    Laughs :D

    Comment by VideoDoc — November 26, 2007 @ 9:59 pm

  36. nice – I’m just thinking about moving to London – I’ve just got a job on the South Bank. Looks like I’m gonna be a loser then…..

    LOL!

    Clare

    Comment by Clare — November 29, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

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  43. I live in London and this map is fairly accurate. The Very Rich area would be Pimlico, maybe Notting Hill, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, the West End,Primrose Hill, maybe Hampstead. London has other wealthy areas but what differentiates these from those is that these areas have always been wealthy, rather than Johhny come lately areas that have been gentrified.

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  45. So, ok…say that this is a map…How it is useful and why? (apart from describing this person’s perception of London I can’t see any other usefulness..)

    Comment by chrisart — May 15, 2008 @ 3:58 am

  46. what you have money not to be a loser, the map is dumb joke, most rich people are losers.

    Comment by gimbo — May 27, 2008 @ 8:34 am

  47. So funny…LOL

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  50. thank you

    Comment by Tony — May 4, 2009 @ 3:12 am

  51. Vielen Dank

    Comment by moon — July 3, 2009 @ 4:55 am

  52. Muchas gracias

    Comment by sun — July 4, 2009 @ 7:20 am

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