Your weekly Londonist roundup, featuring Londony news and features. Aslef members say they're 'working harder and longer for less'. The best events in London this month. © Historic Royal Palaces The beauty of the capital's social housing. Image: Thaddeus Zupancic Adam Dant is at it again. Image: Adam Dant Italian Terraces will also be restored and replanted with wildflowers. Image: HTA Design Clifftop fortresses to grand country piles. Disruption double whammy. Image: TfL When London was behoved to de-hoof. End of Ramadan marked in style. Image: Greater London Authority/Caroline Teo What as tall as six Nelson's Columns? Background image via Nasa, public domain. Buses and dodgy photoshop by Matt Brown Marvellous macarons, superb sushi... and Karen's Diner. Image: Prawn on the Lawn The O2, the huge Hitchcock head - which is your fave? Steam trains, flower festivals and a mysterious grotto. Image: M Pearson/ Mid Hants Railway With a little help from the National Physical Laboratory. You can walk your dog in some of these spots, too. What it's like to patrol the streets of Brixton, Clapham and Stockwell. Image: iStock/gannet77 |