Where do Londoners live? In 1911, the census found that two
thirds of Londoners lived in the inner city - in much more
densely-populated boroughs than today. Islington was the most-
crowded borough had 72,000people per square mile, four times as
many as Hong Kong. Today, the most densely-populated borough is
much more well-heeled Kensington & Chelsea and high population
no longer automatically means slums and poverty. How do
Londoners get around? One single London Underground didn't exist
until less than 12 months before the 1908 Olympics, when four of
the six railway companies came together, and it was all brought
together as one unsubsidised company in 1933, which is also when
the railways were renamed 'lines'. In 1908, Harry Beck's iconic
Tube map was yet to come into existence. After the second world
war, car ownership increased dramatically, and public transport
useage started to decline following a peak in 1948 when 720m
passenger journeys were made. We have two new Tube lines since
then, the Victoria an