The Geography Of London's Nightlife

London's nightlife is moving eastward in addition to northwards, according to a novel interactive map of the city's clubs. Nesta's Clubbing Map shows where clubs bring opened & shut inward London from 2005-2015 in addition to shows that the city's West End is losing its traditional purpose every bit the pump of London nightlife.

The map shows that since 2005 a large publish of novel clubs bring opened upwardly inward in addition to merely about Shoreditch inward London's East End. This suggests that London's nightlife is no longer centered inward the city's West End. This perception of a changing geography inward London's nightlife is reinforced when you lot await at the ratio betwixt the publish of clubs that bring shut in addition to opened over this period.

The Clubbing Map includes a choropleth layer which shows the ratio of opened to shut clubs inward each neighborhood amongst to a greater extent than than 10 clubs. The City in addition to the West End bring both seen the highest turnover inward clubs, suggesting that clubs inward these areas are finding it harder to succeed. Conversely neighborhoods inward northward London in addition to the East End bring seen a far lower ratio of clubs going out of business. It appears that novel clubs opening inward the northward in addition to eastward of London are able to hold upwardly much ameliorate than clubs opening inward the city's West End.