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If women built cities, what would our urban landscape look like?How would cities differ if women designed them? -
From Dallas to London to Sydney, the 35 new citiesThe 100 Resilient Cities programme has revealed a new set of cities it will help prepare for, and bounce back from, the shocks and stresses of modern urban existence
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Ebenezer Howard's three magnetsPicturing place: The Three Magnets diagram has travelled widely since its original publication in 1898, but divorced from its original text the image has often been mis-read, highlighting the ease with which images can be isolated from their original context and be mobilised in new ways -
St Louis aims to ease social tensions as it joins programmeNew tranche of 35 cities on Rockefeller Foundation project includes six successful US applicants, the first two Chinese cities, plus London, Paris, Sydney, Barcelona and Milan -
'Cops work shifts, so I bribe each one'
Street vendors 'Cops work shifts, so I bribe each one'
A new law aims to improve life for street vendors on the streets of Mumbai – by moving them away from their customer base. And then there’s the bribes
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24-year-old scion of India’s controversial dynasty
Aditya Thackeray 24-year-old scion of India’s controversial dynasty
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The race for space on the city streets
Mumbai's dawn runners The race for space on the city streets
The running season is in full flow in the runup to the Mumbai marathon – but how do you escape the onslaught of traffic, crowds and heat in one of the world’s most densely packed cities?
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Taken: how Lata escaped her life as a Mumbai sex workerLata is from a rural village in southern India. Sold into sexual slavery in Mumbai, she is passionate about telling her story so others girls can be aware of the tricks of traffickers. All photographs by Hazel Thompson
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Are these elevated paths 'ugly caterpillars' or precious public space?The skywalks project has always been controversial - but given the lack of gardens, parks or even footpaths in the city, some Mumbaikars find they provide welcome breathing space
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Meet the SlumGods - trailer
This is a trailer for Guardian Cities' film about the SlumGods, a hip-hop crew based in Dharavi, Mumbai
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Dharavi's 20,000 mini-factoriesInside the beehive of Mumbai’s central slum, skilled teams of small-scale manufacturers – from leather workers to garment stitchers – form a shadow world that the government refuses to recognise
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Everyday Mumbai - in picturesChirag Wakaskar’s Everyday Mumbai project explores the social landscape of the city. This week he takes over our @guardiancities Instagram - and here’s a taster of what’s to come
the big picture
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Portraits from the 1930s and 2000s
The people of Mumbai Portraits from the 1930s and 2000s
Inspired by his grandfather – a Times of India press photographer in the 1930s – Jason Scott Tilley spent a decade recording the people of India in monochrome
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Mumbai will likely flood again – and nobody's doing much about itThe 2005 flood that devastated Mumbai could just be the beginning - as more rain, more construction and more rubbish make the city even more vulnerable. So why won’t anyone act?
talking points
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The best city blogs around the worldWe'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
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Architecture for bikes – in picturesFrom Calgary’s space-age Peace bridge to Eindhoven’s floating roundabout and the Copenhagen apartments with a cycle path straight up to the 10th floor, Gavin Blyth’s Velo City highlights some of the world’s best cycling infrastructure
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The world's most beautiful metro stationsThe new Fulton Center subway station in New York opened after 10 years and at a cost of more than $1bn, and is already receiving rave reviews from commuters. Here are some others that buck the trend
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Ghost signs around the worldLurking in the back alleys of New York or perched above the busy streets of Cairo, ghost signs provide an ephemeral link to a city’s past
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Architecture for bikesFrom Calgary’s space-age Peace bridge to Eindhoven’s floating roundabout and the Copenhagen apartments with a cycle path straight up to the 10th floor, Gavin Blyth’s Velo City highlights some of the world’s best cycling infrastructure
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The people of Mumbai: 1930s and 2000s – in picturesInspired by his grandfather – a Times of India press photographer in the 1930s – Jason Scott Tilley spent a decade recording the people of India in monochrome
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Taken: how Lata escaped her life as a Mumbai sex worker - in picturesLata is from a rural village in southern India. Sold into sexual slavery in Mumbai, she is passionate about telling her story so others girls can be aware of the tricks of traffickers. All photographs by Hazel Thompson
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Mumbai after dark – in picturesFrom kids frolicking on Marine Drive to the clubs of Bandra and the patchwork lights of Dharavi, when the sun sets, Mumbai rises
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Readers' pictures of cityscapes around the worldWe asked you to share your photos of the iconic landscapes and cityscapes as part of GuardianWitness’ bi-weekly readers’ assignment. Here is a selection of our favourites
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Mumbai from the sky: a city of ethereal beauty – in picturesRobert D Stephens flew 15,000ft above the city to take photographs for his Mumbai Articles exhibition, which will run at Artisans in the Kala Ghoda art district until 19 November
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An American horror story: 'real' haunted houses – in picturesHalloween special: Photographer Seph Lawless – whose eerie images of abandoned shopping malls we featured this summer – has explored houses blighted by tragic histories in his new book, 13: an American horror story
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Inside Geneva's nuclear bunker turned homeless shelter – in picturesReinforced doors, metal bunks and hot food – with nuclear winter an unlikely prospect, Geneva’s fallout shelters have thrown open their doors to welcome the homeless
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Welcome to Venice, China: Dalian copies canals, palaces … and gondoliersThe copycat city in north-eastern Liaoning province is just the latest example of China’s fondness for replicating Europe’s greatest architectural hits
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Bicester residents fear garden city plan will put strain on local servicesMost locals welcome plan for new homes, but say funds needed to ease traffic and improve school and healthcare facilities
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