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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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10 Sep 2014:
At 465km long, the Beijing metro system has already outgrown the London Underground. By 2020, an extra 400bn yuan (£40bn) of investment will see it more than double to 1,000km, according to Chinese media. The addition of 17 new lines will make it one of the world's longest networks
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8 Sep 2014:
When Ground Zero was finally cleared after the fall of the twin towers, New Yorkers trusted that thoughtful, ambitious urban design could make the city whole again. Why have they been so badly let down?
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5 Sep 2014: The events in Ferguson, Missouri reveal the ‘resegregation’ of America’s once-aspirational inner suburbs, which – far from the social utopias they were meant to be – have become ethnic enclaves: white in one pocket, black in another
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5 Sep 2014: Architecture theorist Jacob Dreyer explains how the Stalinist model of urbanism – a centrally planned component within a national economic unity – is thriving in modern China
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29 Aug 2014:
Most people probably have stronger opinions about urban hipsters than multimodal transit. So why do we insist on ‘cool cities’ lists that make bike lanes feel exclusionary, asks Jordan Fraade
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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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22 Aug 2014: At the end of her journey to trace the life of a typical flip-flop – from oilfield to factory to street to trash – Caroline Knowles was confronted with the Ethiopian capital’s largest landfill site …
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15 Aug 2014:
City links: We explore LA’s attempts to bring back cycling, floating neighbourhoods in Hamburg and suburban explosions in Christchurch in this week’s best city stories
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11 Aug 2014: A policy of legalising unplanned structures if they meet minimum standards means new arrivals to the Vietnamese capital can build homes without official permission, and get basic services
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5 Aug 2014: Conservation Magazine: Farmland, grasslands and forest are all expected to be converted to urban use as US cities sprawl over the next 50 years
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18 Jul 2014:
City links: Offbeat ideas including sheltered benches for the homeless, stadiums turned into housing and giant fans to blow away urban pollution dominate this week's best city stories
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14 Jul 2014:
Guryong offers a shocking contrast to life in the rest of Seoul’s gleaming Gangnam district. A billion-dollar redevelopment plan has sparked fierce debate over what will become of its residents
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14 Jul 2014: Day one: Welcome to South Korea week, as regular Guardian Cities correspondent Colin Marshall goes under the skin of this most extraordinary country for a series of daily despatches
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1 Jul 2014:
Other lives: Teacher and researcher in the politics and philosophy of urban living, with a particular interest in municipal film-making
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