Vienna: How 2022’s most liveable city earned its place in housing history
The most liveable city in the world for 2022, Vienna once undertook one of the most ambitious public housing programmes…
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Why blimps and airships died out – and how they might be making a comeback
Many years ago the airship was going to be the future. Is this sector of the aviation industry finally ready…
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How cities change at night
Matthew Beaumont’s The Walker asks how the nocturnal metropolis differs from the city in daylight.
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Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees hopes for an equitable city that can ‘live with difference’
He's pursuing a number of projects to combat poverty and improve the city's sustainability.
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For 125 years, a statue of the 17th century slave-trader Edward Colston stood in the centre of Bristol, ostensibly to…
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Academics are mapping the legacy of slavery in Britain’s cities
The Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project is mapping every British address linked to a slave-owner.
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British cities face a long overdue reckoning with racist monuments
Figures of the slave trade are honored in public spaces throughout Britain's cities, and opposition has rarely found footing in…
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Why you shouldn’t confuse 2020 for 1968
Author and historian Rick Perlstein discusses the current limits on law-and-order politics.
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