The case for ...
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The construction industry is wasteful and creates huge CO2 emissions. But what if new buildings had to be adapted and resused or built only with materials already available?
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Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that be truly ‘smart’?
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The church of Scientology has buildings around the world, but none compare to those in America’s city of dreams. So why is LA so important to Scientology?
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Addis Ababa-based artist Yemsrach Yetneberk on how the radical spread of the Ethiopian capital is changing neighbourhoods
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Until four years ago Dar Es Salaam had no public transport. Artist Popa Matumula looks at the impact a new bus system is having on the city’s legendarily bad traffic
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Artist Jim Butler has spent years sketching the locals and music acts at his local pub. But a redevelopment plan for the area means the pub’s future is uncertain
Films
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Fata and Yankuba are two young Gambians with ambitious dreams, who fled dictatorship and poverty, and landed in Naples only to discover a new kind of violence: a pernicious climate of racism and an unhelpful immigration system. The Teranga nightclub provides a rare safe space for migrants to meet young Italians while dancing and singing away the collective trauma of their journeys to Europe and the discrimination they face in Italy
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As the Earth continues to break new heat records, the UN is warning of a 'climate apartheid' between those who can afford to keep themselves cool and those who must live, work, suffer – and sometimes die – in the heat
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For 45 years a wall has cut Nicosia in half. But now some young Cypriots are risking prison – and the wrath of their elders – by refusing to take up arms against each other
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In the 'food deserts' of Memphis, Tennessee, locals lack what seems a basic human right in the richer half of the city: a supermarket. Are they doomed to die younger than their neighbours – or can they fight for their right to nutrition?
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Hamid Farahi Alamdari 1962-2018: He was a charmer who spoke seven languages and claimed he had nearly worked with Stephen Hawking – but somehow Hamid ended up living in a Tesco car park and dying alone
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The story of cities
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In the first in a 50-part series charting the history of the planet’s urbanisation, Jack Shenker explores the ancient metropolis of Alexandria, which set a powerful precedent for future cities all over the world
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In August 1945, a 16-kilotonne atomic bomb killed 140,000 people and reduced a thriving city to rubble. Hiroshima has been reborn as a place of peace and prosperity, but will memories of those dark days die with the last survivors?
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Ebène Cybercity was built 15 years ago to create a modern working environment for Mauritians and bring a hi-tech hub to this island nation. So does it offer a roadmap for Africa - or a warning of problems ahead?
Cities in motion
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The Bristol Bike Project has been repairing abandoned or unwanted bicycles for vulnerable people for 10 years – but now faces an uncertain future
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Statistically less safe than regular cars and with higher CO2 emissions, campaigners argue the heavily-marketed cars have no place in urban areas
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Business models reliant on maximum footfall are at odds with social distancing, says author and academic Anna Minton
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Brief letters: King’s Cross Central | HS2 | River Thames | Van slogans
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Surveillance software switched off at prestigious development after backlash
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One person reassured by the technology but most echo the complaint that ‘it’s unjustified’
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