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11 Sep 2014:
Hull’s twin loss of its fishing and shipping industries consigned it to a future of poverty, isolation and even ridicule. But now all that is about to change, because the city is putting its faith back in the North Sea
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5 Sep 2014: City links: We explore the centrality of street food to Chengdu’s social life, the trend of parking spaces becoming parks, and a map of Portland’s immorality in this week’s best city stories
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22 Aug 2014:
City links: The week’s best city stories claim that heritage preservation kills cities, criticise New York for being a ‘Disneyland for hipsters’ and sing happy birthday to Chennai
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18 Aug 2014: As the state has withdrawn, Santiago Cirugeda has stepped in to turn abandoned sites in Seville and other Spanish cities into dramatic art spaces that are inspiring a new breed of architect
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31 Jul 2014:
Planner with a vision of how people's lives would change – and cities with them
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23 Jul 2014:
“As precious as gold...” This was how then-president Hu Jintao described Caofeidian during his visit in 2006. It was promised to be ‘the world’s first fully realised eco-city’ – yet 10 years and almost $100bn later, only a few thousand inhabitants have moved to this land reclaimed from the sea
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23 Jul 2014: The Hemakcheat was once one of Cambodia’s most beloved cinemas and Meas Sopheap one of its brightest stars. Today it is a notorious slum, and Meas one of hundreds who shelter there
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22 Jul 2014: With a weak US dollar, strong yuan and China's own real estate market cooling after years of explosive growth, Detroit is an attractive – but high-risk – option for Chinese property developers
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9 Jul 2014:
From hip-house pioneers through the urban nightmarists to the rappers inspired by literature, here are some of UK hip-hop's finest moments
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3 Jul 2014: This new short film explores the city’s enlightened approach to regeneration following the decline of its traditional industries
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30 Jun 2014: Rapper was taken into custody in North Carolina after missing a court date to answer charges for marijuana possession
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27 Jun 2014:
Members of controversial voluntary organisation patrol neighbourhoods, hunt criminals and make citizen’s arrests
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25 Jun 2014:
Kodak has been hit hard by the digital revolution – and so has its hometown Rochester, New York. Dave Stelfox meets the couple who captured the death of a company town
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20 Jun 2014: From zombie film sets and housing proposals to critiques of suburbia and capitalism, here's how our readers responded to the 'death of the mall'. Share your pictures and stories of vacant shops and malls in your city
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19 Jun 2014:
Once-proud visions of suburban utopia are left to rot as malls appear increasingly irrelevant to young people
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