Lessons from how the Soviet bloc tackled its housing crisis
The UK is in the grip of a cost of living, inflation, mortgage and housing crisis – but we are…
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Spaceports: The most active are surprisingly close to urban areas
No one may be walking on the Moon again any time soon, but a significant number of satellite launches take…
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Where are the largest cities in the world?
The number of people who live in a city is surprisingly hard to work out. That's partly because populations shift…
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Remembering a map that allows you to see what a nuclear detonation would do to any city
As the threat of nuclear options has continued to increase in rhetoric, it might be time again to wonder just…
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Metro city Moscow: The megacity that won’t slow down
Russian designer Constantine Konovalov and producer Natalia Moskaleva have laid out their vision for a new Moscow metro map for…
ByA “Palace for the People”: the design of the Moscow metro, in pictures
Blue Crow Media is an independent publisher producing a series of urban architecture maps. The company’s latest work is the…
ByKaliningrad: the World Cup city that has twice tried to erase its past
Kaliningrad and its new $300m “Arena Baltika” stadium has been thrown into the spotlight by the football World Cup. But…
ByCould protests over waste disposal really bring down Russia’s President Putin?
A steady stream of garbage-laden trucks moves the waste of Russia’s capital to landfills in the surrounding region. The resulting…
