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
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
19 Aug 2014:
Things aren’t what they seem in Tokyo’s parks, where benches double up as cooking stoves and underground stores hold emergency food and water for entire districts
14 Aug 2014:
London – with all its tarmac, brick and glass – is actually 38.4% open space and ranks as the world’s third greenest major city. The maps below plot open space and happiness – and attempt to show how well-being would increase if London’s green space was expanded
Reporting from Istanbul's Gezi Park, Guardian Cities blogger of the week Yasar Adanali of Reclaim Istanbul highlights the conflict between the public who want open green spaces and the developers fighting to turn them into real estate or mega-infrastructure projects. His solution? Simple
25 Jul 2014:
A stone’s throw from the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, a new adventure playground in Dalmarnock is trying to rethink the way inner-city children live their lives – with added risk
15 Jul 2014: Letters: If George Osborne were to link his support for brownfield and a "northern powerhouse" we might be on the way to a credible strategy
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