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The Geneva fallout bunkers doubling as homeless shelters

Switzerland is repurposing its nuclear shelters to cope with a different sort of crisis
- Inside Geneva's nuclear bunker turned homeless shelter

Editors' picks

Copycat city

Venice, China

Dalian in north-eastern Liaoning province has built a replica canal system, complete with palaces and even gondoliers in traditional costume
Homelessness

Rich and poor

In Athens, it's caused by an economy in crisis; in Munich, by an economy that's booming. The result, though, is the same
- Barcelona: homeless guides
Winnipeg

A city divided

Winnipeg, home to Canada's largest urban indigenous population, is grappling with division reminiscent of the US pre-civil rights movement
Surat

Most generous boss

Forward-thinking Hari Krishna chairman marks Diwali by lavishing almost 500 cars and more than 200 apartments on his long-serving employees

City links

Bikes pretending to be cars? Riga's cyclists stage a clever protest over space

17 Oct 2014: City links: The best city stories this week follow activist cyclists in Latvia’s capital, explore Minneapolis’ plan for a ‘city within a city’ and discover proposals for street canals in Boston

All City links

Film competition

Readers' shorts

We asked readers to make three-minute films about their cities for the City Visions film season. In the last of three updates, here are some more favourites
- 24-hour London, Kuala Lumpur and Chicago in motion
- Invisible Venice, Brazil's toy city and a Doha lullaby

Street View sleuth

Your problems mapped

Our fledgling project to visualise the problems in your cities has generated some striking examples, which we've mapped here

The Enfield experiment

Enfield tears up housing rules

Pushed into a corner by soaring prices, greedy landlords and a cap on benefits, Enfield has embarked on a daring set of untested policies

Data viz

LuminoCity: new interactive map tool sheds light on British cities

8 Oct 2014: Duncan A Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis talks us through his new data visualisation platform, LuminoCity3D, and the insights it offers into population, employment, transport and the environment

In pictures

CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year

The theme of this year's competition – Cities at Work – challenged photographers from around the world to capture the beauty and day-to-day reality of working life

Latest on cities

Cameron hails plan to fast-track devolution for English cities

Report from City Growth Commission says ‘devo met’ could be achieved on same timetable as devolved powers for Scotland
Colombian photographer Juan Fernando Herrán wins Prix Pictet commission - audio slideshow

Audio slideshow
The fifth Prix Pictet commission has been awarded to Colombian photographer Juan Fernando Herrán, for his latest work Escalas (Stairs). The award, which this year has the theme of consumption, will enable Herrán to produce a series of photographs examining material culture and consumption in indigenous communities in Colombia
Devo max and giving power to cities will boost UK productivity – thinktank

Devolving tax and immigration decisions to metropolitan areas and fuller powers for Scotland could lift economy ‘by 5%’
Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton shows he doesn't know when to stop

Funded by the richest man in France, Gehry’s new art museum reveals the danger of big budgets, writes Oliver Wainwright
Housing First: the 'counterintuitive' method for solving urban homelessness

Despite the global recession, homelessness in cities around the world is falling. Can a controversial strategy to give homeless people a roof first – that is, before addressing drug abuse or mental health – take the credit?
South-east house price growth outstrips London’s as buyers forced out of capital

Average asking price in south-east passes £355,000 – 10% higher than a year ago, says Rightmove
Victoria Henshaw obituary

Urban planner and academic who believed good design considered the smells of towns and cities as well as their sights and sounds
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Global voices

The best city blogs around the world

We're getting to know the local urban voices who cover their home cities most insightfully. Here's our initial list of bloggers, from Detroit to Addis Ababa
- An urbanist's guide to Edmonton
- An urbanist's guide to Tunis