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October 2024

  • A huge grey terraced building adorned with plants, with the Hamburg cityscape in the background

    The alternatives
    ‘It’s a big lever for change’: the radical contract protecting Hamburg’s green space

  • A man jogging through an avenue of trees in Retiro Park, Madrid

    Urban green spaces have vital role in cutting heat-related deaths, study finds

  • Researchers study the bones of Parisians in Les Catacombes.

    ‘Bodies were dropped down quarry shafts’: secrets of millions buried in Paris catacombs come to light

  • People stand around a large sculpture of weathered steel ribbons with many names cut into them

    Leeds sculpture celebrates 400 women, from suffragists to boxers

September 2024

  • Two buses on London’s Oxford Street.

    Where will the Oxford Street buses go?

  • Plans to pedestrianise parts of London's Oxford Street have been announced by the mayor, Sadiq Khan.

    Can a traffic-free Oxford Street match its global rivals?

  • People chatting and reading in a cafe

    How a digital detox day could help people take control of downtime

  • Mudlarking on the River Thames at Bankside, London, in January 2018.

    How mudlarking on the Thames unlocks London’s secret riches

  • ‘It’s positive’: shoppers react to Oxford Street pedestrianisation proposal

  • Pass notes
    Rat winter: why vermin are crawling up our sewage pipes

  • Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows

  • Big ideas: a celebration of French artist JR’s installations – in pictures

  • Architects Caruso St John: ‘Developers are too powerful in this country. Everything is upped in terms of crudity and brashness’

  • Warning: countryside at risk. Ministers are pulling a fast one over the threat to pristine green-belt land

    Geoffrey Lean

  • Out of the ruins: film inspired by slum clearance in Nigeria opens in Toronto

August 2024

  • Car parking in the Greek capital, Athens.

    An epidemic of falls on the ‘mean streets’ of Athens

    Locals and tourists alike complain that navigating the Greek capital’s sidewalks by foot can be fraught with peril
  • Coal Drops Yard, New King's Cross Shopping District, Opens in London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 26: People walk through the Coal Drops Yard shopping centre, which has opened today on October 26, 2018 in London, England. Coal Drops Yard, which features several dozen shops and restaurants, was originally built in the mid-19th century to receive the millions of tons of coal delivered to London each year, and has been redesigned by Thomas Heatherwick's design studio. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

    Antony Gormley joins fight against ‘destruction’ of historic King’s Cross site

    Angel of the North artist is among residents objecting to development plans for Coal Drops Yard in London

    • Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035

    • Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable

    • How does Banksy feel about the destruction of his art? He may well be cheering

      Rafael Schacter
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