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City as Character
Getting lost in the text-cities of Joyce, Döblin, and Dos Passos. By Tyler Malone.
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Absolute hell: the toxic outpost where Mumbai's poorest are 'sent to die'
More than 30,000 slum residents have been forced to the ‘critically polluted’ area of Mahul as the city clears land around a water pipeline and plans a bike lane to stop residents moving back. By Puja Changoiwala.
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London’s Hidden Tunnels Revealed In Amazing Cutaways
What lies beneath. By Tim Dunn.
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Boston smart city: Stuff you can do (and didn't know you could)
Sometimes, smart city technology helps. Other times, not so much: say, interactive art prone to getting loved to death. Boston has tinkered with both feeble and fab apps, resulting in pretty useful apps. Here are six examples that will get you phone-jabby.
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The Miracle of Minneapolis
If the american dream has not quite shattered as the Millennial generation has come of age, it has certainly scattered. Living affordably and trying to climb higher than your parents did were once considered complementary ambitions. Today, young Americans increasingly have to choose one or the other—they can either settle in affordable but stagnant metros or live in economically vibrant cities whose housing prices eat much of their paychecks unless they hit it big.
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Tough-Love Urbanism
Sam Hall Kaplan commiserates with Jeremiah Moss, author of “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul.”
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Demystifying the Ancient Tangle of London’s Streets
For 81 years, A-Z maps have helped everyone from cabbies to clueless tourists navigate one of the world’s most confusing cities. By Greg Miller.
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Impossible City: Photographs of New Orleans
Sometimes you see a picture and you can tell that something’s missing, but you don’t know what it is. By Tim Culvahouse with photos by Virginia Hanusik.
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Boxed in: life inside the ‘coffin cubicles’ of Hong Kong – in pictures
Photographer Benny Lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats, recording the lives of these hidden communities.
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Corrupt, dangerous and brutal to its poor – but is Marseille the future of France?
Long unloved and unwanted, the ultimate ‘outsider’ city poses France the most important question it faces in the 21st century. By Phil Hoad.
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Between Victoria and Vauxhall
"What this general election offers in Vauxhall is a choice between voting for the party that helped the Tories introduce the austerity regime which is still blighting lives seven years on, or voting for a candidate who is pro-Brexit, pro-Farage, pro-May, pro-handgun, and backed by Ukip." By John Lanchester.
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Urban Squatting’s History is More Radical Than You Imagined
A new book looks at the triumphs and challenges of the renegade housing movement. By Lauren Oyler.
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The Secret Life of Urban Crows
…and why Seattle may be the Corvid Capital of the World. By James Ross Gardner.
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The Hidden History of the Laundry Chute
Stains, smells, secrets, thieves, dead bodies, and even a radioactive towel have all found their way down one. By Sarah Minor.
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Urbanisation signal detected in evolution, study shows
Scientists discover a ‘clear signal’ of urbanisation in the evolution of organisms around the globe. By Mark Kinver.
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What Disney’s city of the future, built to look like the past, says about the present
Utopia on the I-4.
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Here’s What Western Accounts of the Kowloon Walled City Don’t Tell You
“If the energy of young designers in both Hong Kong and abroad were focused less on criticizing places that are actually doing fine, there are real urban and social problems in Hong Kong that are currently, like the Walled City once was, being neglected…” By Rory Stott.
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City Living Makes Animals Dishonest
Honesty is the basis of any good relationship. This is as true for animals as it is for humans… By Josh Gabbatiss.
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The Dazzling Designs for a New York That Never Existed
From skyscraper bridges to glass domes, an intoxicating glimpse at how New York might have looked.
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Living For The City
Stevie Wonder
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