Cities + Video
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Charlotte, North Carolina is a ‘gateway city’ for immigrants, who prop up its construction, health and food industries – not to mention its tax base. If all undocumented workers were to be deported, as the Trump administration is threatening, the consequences could be dire
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Timelapse video shot from a Beijing bank on Monday shows a thick cloud of yellow smog swallowing buildings as it rolls into the city
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The street artist Stik set out to ask the denizens of Old Shoreditch how his new mural should reflect their gentrified neighbourhood
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A giant Tetris tournament takes place on Tel Aviv’s city hall every Thursday. Two huge joysticks are placed in Rabin Square and people are invited to play each other on the building’s facade, which is covered with 480 LED lights and serves as a 3,000 sq m screen
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As the hajj begins once again, Saudi artist Ahmed Mater has revealed unprecedented changes to the holy city – from flashy new hotels to the loss of priceless neighbourhoods
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Underwater footage of the lost city of Thonis-Heracleion was discovered by renowned archaeologist Franck Goddio in 2000
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Doris Salcedo nos da un recorrido por Bogotá y su estudio
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Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo takes us on a tour of Bogotá and her studio
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Recent research provides a better understanding of urban populations
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Three homes under one roof gives this big American family companionship, dignity and a nicer house than they could afford on their own
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After an earthquake and tsunami devastated Constitución, in south Chile, architect Alejandro Aravena is developing a new type of social housing
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Inside the slick modern-day boarding house – a visionary example of the sharing economy, or a disturbing symptom of the housing crisis?
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Protesters parody tourism video by juxtaposing images of Lebanon’s beauty spots with the reality of the country’s garbage crisis
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St John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, a historic church in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, is facing eviction due in part to skyrocketing property values in the city
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Architect Kunlé Adeyemi tells the story of why and how he came to design and build Makoko Floating School in Lagos, how he was inspired by the attitude of the slum’s residents, and how he hopes his structure will act as a prototype for dealing with housing shortages and the impact of climate change – a kind of ‘urbanism on water’
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Pese a la naturaleza precaria de la ciudad, Abraham Cruzvillegas ve mucho que adorar en la urbe donde vive y trabaja: la protesta, la música, la transformación constante ... y las perlas que se encuentra en la basura. El primer artista mexicano en exponer en el espacio Turbine Hall de la Tate Modern en Londres nos muestra de primera mano cómo su arte celebra el caos moderno de la Ciudad de México
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Abraham Cruzvillegas, the first Mexican artist to exhibit at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, shows us how his art embraces the modern chaos of Mexico City
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The Artist and Their City, episode 2: The Turner prize-winning sculptor Antony Gormley Takes us on an intimate tour inside ‘his’ London, with an exclusive peek at new works
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Watch a series of aerial shots of some of the UK’s natural beauty spots released by the National Trust
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A Guardian Cities / Tate special series Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing but spent the first 18 years of his life in exile with his family. He now lives and works in the capital, far from the centre but under constant surveillance. In the first of this new series of short films, he offers a unique insight into the artists’ community he helped build in Caochangdi – and reveals his playful techniques for carving out a space in ‘a city that doesn’t really belong to its residents’
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Morgan Jerkins and John Pressley, two young African Americans living in Harlem, debunk the common conception of gentrification as a strictly black and white issue
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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 – on both sides of the levees – offer very personal insights into the land, the music ... and whether that prediction has come true
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The remote Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky as seen from the air
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At a roundtable hosted by the Guardian, experts discussed how long it will take for all cities to become smart
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Passersby were injured by falling debris when an empty building collapsed suddenly in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York, on Tuesday
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London is on the verge of being ruined for all future generations, says Alain de Botton. With a whopping 260 towers in the pipeline, here's why we're right to be nervous – and how we can stop this clear desecration of the capital city
The air we breathe How bad is Delhi's air? We strapped a monitor to a rickshaw to find out