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The Design Museum’s director, Deyan Sudjic, has selected the designs that define London for a new book. Here are 10 of his choices
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As house prices skyrocket in many cities around the world, try your luck at identifying the asking prices for these 10 very different dwellings
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The Design Museum asked New York architecture critic Julie Iovine to sum up the spirit of her city in 50 design icons. Here are 10 of her favourites
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Seventy-five years after the start of the blitz, second world war bomb sites continue to shape modern London, with second and even third waves of redevelopment throwing up buildings expected to last as little as three decades
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From Bucharest to Birmingham, you shared your pictures and stories of overlooked, abandoned or unloved buildings in cities
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It was predicted that New Orleans would take a decade to recover from Hurricane Katrina. On the 10th anniversary of the costliest natural disaster in US history, four residents from very different neighbourhoods offer their very personal insights
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As well as focusing on climate-related catastrophes, the 41-step resilience strategy addresses social issues such as poverty, racial inequality and crime
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With roughly half the city below sea level and the Louisiana wetlands, which act as a buffer to storms, disappearing at a rate of one football field an hour, what can be done to limit the threat of further devastating floods?
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20 Fenchurch Street might have won the dreaded Carbuncle Cup – but we’re stuck with it all the same. Its visible failings are minor next to the terrible lessons it teaches us about the capital’s new plutocracy
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Your guilt trip won't stop gentrification
Kalima RoseInstead of feeling paralyzed, gentrifiers should support local tenants advocacy and homeless services groups -
Fifty suburbs have been added to the city’s bulging waistline since 2006, and there are more to come to accommodate the spread of people – and animals
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In what is likely a world first, 14 disability campaigners are jointly running in Córdoba’s mayoral election to make Argentina’s second city more accessible
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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, photographer Mario Tama of Getty Images returns to the city to document how things have changed
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After the 2011 disaster, residents were asked what they wanted from their rebuilt city. They demanded a greener, more people-focused Christchurch – and investment in new cycleways and a bike share means it is starting to happen
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The rebuilding of New Orleans’s massive City Park is one of the great post-Katrina success stories. But the creation of a new golf course has sparked protests among those who say a nature reserve would be better, and safer, for the city
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Jeff Hebert was moved to return home to New Orleans by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. In the decade since, he has been at the heart of efforts to rebuild a stronger city, culminating in today’s launch of a future masterplan
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Duncan Gay has made it his mission to rid Sydney of its network of segregated bike lanes. Cyclists and the lord mayor are up in arms at what they see as a dangerous backward step in the city’s development
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Interactive: Click on the map to read our bloggers’ insider guides to their cities – from cosy, sexy Copenhagen to seeing beyond the stereotypes in Cairo …
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Are there impressive historic buildings in your city which have been left to decay? Share your pictures of overlooked and abandoned architectural heritage in cities around the world with GuardianWitness
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The London Fairness Commission wanted to hear from residents of the UK capital about their priorities for a fairer city. From affordable housing to free public transport, here’s what our readers said
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As cities rapidly develop, historical vistas can be protected or lost, while new ones are created. Readers shared their favourite urban views around the world
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What do Poznań, Iloilo and Zaragoza have in common? According to our readers, they’re top cities for cycling. Here’s a roundup of your favourite places to get around by bike
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Colin O’Brien has been photographing the lives of Londoners since 1948, capturing both change and continuity in the life of the capital. His book London Life records the final moments before transformation took place in the city
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Photographer Jeffrey Milstein captures cities using high-resolution camera equipment from the open door of a helicopter
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Moscow has some of the bravest daredevil urban explorers of any city. Meet two of them: Anna Arinova, who goes deep underground, and Max Polazov, who scales the tallest heights
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Classic diners, fake benches and a car chase scene you’d never get permission to shoot today... location scout Nick Carr tours us around his favourite uses of New York City in the movies
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From crime-chasing news hound to art-world darling, the cult photographer’s unmistakeable images capture all the drama of life in the Big Apple.
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When it opened on 15 May 1935, the Moscow metro was a subterranean Communist paradise: its chandeliers, marble, intricate mosaics and heroic statues created an opulent space that was accessible for the city’s workers. Eighty years on it transports up to nine million people a day, with expansion plans set to make it the world’s fourth largest subway system by 2020
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Thirty years on from The Smiths’ only UK No 1 studio album, how do the band’s legendary evocations of 1980s Manchester compare with life in the city today? There’s only one place to start …
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The truth about property developers: how they are exploiting planning authorities and ruining our cities
Oliver WainwrightAffordable housing quotas get waived and the interests of residents trampled as toothless authorities bow to the dazzling wealth of investors from Russia, China and the Middle East -
The heavyweight world championship showdown between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman electrified a city full of pride and promise in the early years following independence – and then the money ran out …
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What is life like in Mali’s ‘city in the middle of nowhere’? Guardian photographer Sean Smith recently spent a week there, meeting everyone from Timbuktu’s chief muezzin to its only DJ
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