{"id":5698,"date":"2011-12-31T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2011-12-31T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:46:06","slug":"the-most-popular-urban75-blog-posts-of-2011-shard-slutwalk-naked-bike-ride-and-bt-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-most-popular-urban75-blog-posts-of-2011-shard-slutwalk-naked-bike-ride-and-bt-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The most popular urban75 blog posts of 2011: Shard, Slutwalk, Naked Bike Ride and BT Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; background-color: #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/london-naked-bike-ride-2011-13.jpg\" alt=\"London Naked Bike Ride 2011 through central London from Hyde Park, Saturday June 11th 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"401\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As 2011 draws to a close, I&#8217;ve broken out the calculator and done some totting up to find out which posts have proved the most popular with readers on my blog for the year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; max-width: 600px; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/the-london-shard-night-jan-2011-01.jpg\" alt=\"The London Shard at night, Jan 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sitting at the top of the pile is my photo report documenting the rise of what will be Europe&#8217;s tallest building: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-london-shard-at-london-bridge-london-se1-continues-to-soars\/\" target=\"_blank\">The London Shard at London Bridge, London SE1 continues to soar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the piece was written back in Nov 2010, it still notched up a load of page views in 2011, as did the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-shard-london-bridge-nears-completion\/\" target=\"_blank\">many updates<\/a> I posted throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/london-naked-bike-ride-2011-36.jpg\" alt=\"London Naked Bike Ride 2011 through central London from Hyde Park, Saturday June 11th 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"416\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In second place was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/naked-bike-ride-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">2009 London Naked Bike Ride<\/a> which &#8211; curiously enough &#8211; managed to attract nearly a\u00a0thousand\u00a0page views more than the report from this years ride:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-naked-bike-ride-2011-all-the-wobbly-bits-in-a-full-photo-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Naked Bike Ride 2011 \u2013 all the wobbly bits in a full photo report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/slutwalk-london-june-2011-36.jpg\" alt=\"London Slutwalk from Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square, Saturday June 11th 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In fourth place was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-slutwalk-2011-full-photo-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Slutwalk 2011- full photo report<\/a>, followed by the report of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/bt-telecom-tower-restaurant-plans-abandoned\/\" target=\"_blank\">BT Telecom Tower restaurant plans being abandoned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/lice-sex-shop.jpg\" alt=\"'Lice Sex Shop' and other West End scenes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other popular posts in 2011 included\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/camden-market-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camden Market photos<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/new-london-routemaster-unveiled-as-a-full-size-model\/\" target=\"_blank\">New London Routemaster unveiled as a full size model<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/lice-sex-shop-and-other-autumnal-london-street-scenes\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Lice Sex Shop,\u2019 bookshops, old hospitals and autumnal London street scenes<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-look-inside-the-electric-brixton-formerly-the-brixton-fridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">A look inside the Electric Brixton, formerly the Brixton Fridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2011 draws to a close, I&#8217;ve broken out the calculator and done some totting up to find out which posts have proved the most popular with readers on my &hellip; 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