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The forgotten shops of Derby – in picturesFounded in 1865, Derby-based WW Winter is the longest running photography business in Britain. These pictures from their archives cast a glance back to the shopping scene in the east Midlands city around the turn of the 20th century
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Delivery robots: a revolutionary step or sidewalk-clogging nightmare?They’ve been called the ‘only sane solution’ for urban deliveries and are already being tested, but are pedestrians prepared to jostle for space?
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How the Dodger baseball stadium shaped LA – and revealed its divisionsWhen the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles 60 years ago, the construction of their stadium was meant to forge the city’s rise to modernity. Instead it provoked a racially charged battle of eviction and protest that shaped LA for decades to come
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Housing associations face storm of complaints over new-build homesResidents of London developments built with public funding tell of damp, lack of security, rats and poor customer service
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Scrapping speed bumps is a ludicrous 'solution' to air pollutionIt wouldn’t work, and our roads would become even more dangerous. Why is the government wasting time considering it?
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Racing in the street? Way cleared for motor sports on English roadsDepartment for Transport moves to allow Monaco-style grand prix on public roads, but don’t expect to see F1 cars in London
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The city Le Corbusier built: inside Chandigarh – in picturesIn 1950, India’s prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru invited the architect Le Corbusier to design a modernist city that broke with the country’s colonial past
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Augusta in the spotlight: how the Masters transforms a small Georgia cityStarting today golf will consume Georgia’s second city, as it does every April – but it is a baseball stadium and a cyberwarfare hub that are driving real change
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Magic black: Air-Ink, the art supplies made from vehicle pollutionInventor Anirudh Sharma is capturing carbon from car exhausts to turn it into ink. And he’s got his eye on London’s black cabs next
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Night owls: portraits of life on the night bus – in picturesIn an ongoing project, Guardian photographer Sarah Lee immerses herself in the world of London’s buses, capturing candid portraits of people during their night-time journeys
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Cricket is fierce in Mumbai's field of dreamsAt the Oval Maidan recreation ground in Mumbai young cricketers can imagine they are the next MS Dhoni or Virat Kohli
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Activists fight North Carolina law barring cities from raising minimum wageAcross the south, state legislatures have passed ‘pre-emption laws’ stopping cities such as Democrat-run, majority-black Durham from heeding the Fight for $15
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Dreamers need not apply: city's teacher shortage overlooks the undocumentedIn the final part of a series on the undocumented workers of Charlotte, North Carolina, Amanda Holpuch discovers how threats against Daca could pose serious consequences for schools, amid a nationwide teacher shortage
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The river London forgot: how the Lea is being rebornFor years, it as been the city’s back yard, a place of fridge mountains, distilleries and scrapyards, but now there’s a fresh plan to turn this ancient valley back into a green playground. We walk the newly opened Leaway riverside path
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Is London's new cycling tsar too nice to face down the bike-haters?Sadiq Khan made big promises to make London bike-friendly, and now it’s up to Will Norman to deliver. In a rare interview, the walking and cycling commissioner defends his plans
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WestConnex: bitter battles mark the road to Australia's urban futureThe controversial 33km road and tunnel project in the city’s inner west has become a litmus test for Australian urban planning
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'Banksy of punctuation' puts full stop to bad grammar in BristolBBC tracks down self-styled ‘grammar vigilante’ on mission to rid city of rogue apostrophes
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Small, green and open-air: inside Bangkok's new 'community malls'In a city dominated by air-conditioned complexes and where street life is being destroyed, a new style of mall seeks to recapture a neighbourhood charm
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Skeleton cities and snipers: the shocking photographs that show the scale of Syria's lossFrom the shelled-out mall that never opened to a family reclaiming their possessions from rubble, Pulitzer-winning photographer Sergey Ponomarev captured Syria’s tragedy from the inside
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Moscow's big move: is this the biggest urban demolition project ever?In what might be the biggest urban demolition project ever, 10% of Moscow’s housing stock will be torn down and 1.6 million people resettled as the city’s ‘Khrushchevka’ flats are destroyed. But residents are fighting back
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From Ai Weiwei's Dog to Indian wall painting: great public art – in pictures
innovative partnerships From Ai Weiwei's Dog to Indian wall painting: great public art – in pictures
Public art, often required as part of new development, appears around the world in many different forms. Here are some of our favourite pieces
Water in development How can Peru prepare to withstand more devastating floods and landslides?