Cities
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Region’s likely new president Isabel Díaz Ayuso believes congestion is part of city’s cultural identity -
As the city prepares to host EuroPride, Lars van Roosendaal paints the places at the heart of its storied LGBT scene
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More than 130 residents at a Brooklyn apartment complex oppose plan to use the cameras, whose use, experts say, is quietly expanding in cities -
In pictures
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Carolina Sandretto documents the last remaining buildings in Cines de Cuba, published by Skira
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A journey on Kolkata’s neglected but beautiful metro is also a trip back in time, says artist Dwarka Nath Sinha -
The residents of Douala work hard – and, come Vendredi soir, play hard too, says Toh Brigh -
After Maria is a graphic novella by Dr Gemma Sou and John Cei Douglas about a family’s recovery from Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in 2017
Films
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In rare footage of the North Korean capital, the Guardian gained an insight into what daily life is like for its citizens. Escorted by government minders at all times we were invited to visit a nursery, zoo, swimming pool, funfair, parks, factories, festivals and more, but were left questioning if anything was real. After returning to the UK, Emma Graham-Harrison reflects on what it's like spending a week immersed in a personality cult
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Comedian Tanishi Matsubara has an unusual system for renting cheaply in Osaka - he seeks out 'stigmatised property': places in which the previous inhabitant has died
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Suresh Kumar Sharma is an auto-rickshaw driver in Delhi, a city with some of the world’s dirtiest air – and where many locals don’t know how unhealthy the pollution really is
Cities in motion
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When you learn to recognise the beauty in ruins and weeds, you’re really getting somewhere -
Artist Jake Berman plots old public transport systems in period style. From LA to Toronto, San Francisco to Buffalo, he has created maps of cities’ modern transit too, so you can click and compare -
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The privatisation must stop before all we have left are gated communities and golf courses, writes Professor Brett Christophers of Uppsala University in Sweden -
Plans for the company’s vast new ‘gathering place’ have been shelved after a backlash. But Apple is growing bolder in its designs on public space -
He has proposed eliminating social housing and privatising streets – so is Zaha Hadid’s successor the most hated man in urbanism? -
The numbers are in for our 15 best-read stories of the year. Now’s the time to check if you missed any – and let us know what you want us to cover in 2018
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Onagawa was already in decline when it was obliterated in 2011 by the Tohoku tsunami. Can it both rebuild and rejuvenate itself? -
The city has endured much through the years, but as cartoonist Tayo Fatunla grew up saying: ‘Eko oni baje’ or ‘Lagos cannot be destroyed’ -
The next 15 megacities #14: Surat’s battle to hold back water has raged since its first flood wall in 1664. As its population soars towards 10 million, the ‘diamond city’ needs new solutions -
The next 15 megacities #9: Known as ‘the city of a hundred lakes’ until most got paved over, Wuhan has a flooding problem. Can permeable pavements and artificial wetlands soak it up?
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