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With unaffordable housing and a scarcity of jobs, it’s no wonder that young people are giving London a miss.
No’ playin’ ba’
小豪豪 Wu
During the 20th century, English accents began to pick up traits from the capital. In the west of Scotland, though, something different has been going on.
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Among unfamiliar languages, cultures, cuisines, jobs and neighbourhoods, what does it take for migrants to establish a sense of home?
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The growth of megacities and the mental health challenges this presents requires a new way of thinking.
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The arrival of the super-rich has triggered a ‘trickle down’ effect – and not in a good way.
Alasdair Rae
These maps can tell us much more than the location of England’s most and least deprived areas.
Rosapolis/Flickr
Gentrification is an immoral process - here’s why violent protest has a role to play in the fight against it.
Ivan Maisky: a consummate diplomat and astute observer of events.
Courtesy of the Scheffer-Voskressenski family
Some excerpts from the diary of Ivan Maisky, the WW2 Soviet ambassador in London.
Anthony Quintano/Flickr
Having all your green in one place or not has been taxing urban planners for some time.
Metropolis: imagining the cities of the future.
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A new form of research is needed to bring us the cities of the future.
A ragged record. UK and corruption.
jimjarmo
David Cameron’s call for an era of clean money has opened the door to a host of problems for the powerful as capitalism struggles into a new era.
Philip Oldfield
A defence of La Défense, and other towering architecture across the globe.
The Brazilian’s death showed a major human weakness.
PA/Johnny Green
The death of the Brazilian electrician at the hands of the Metropolitan Police was a notorious case of mistaken identity. The same thing would probably happen today.
The 7/7 memorial in London.
EPA/Andy Rain
It can’t compete with the US, but the UK became part of mega-memorial culture after the London bombings.
Creating a buzz.
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Our expert reveals that modern coffee culture has its roots in 18th-century literature.
Racing to keep up.
Primary school children via Monkey Business Images/www.shutterstock.com
Schools can learn from strategies used to help ethnic minority children to close gap for white working-class pupils.
Can the inner city of Johannesburg become the flat white that is proving the perfect brew in London’s East End?
Wits Archives
Drawing on models that have proved hugely successful in major cities around the world, Wits University is creating a large and ambitious Digital Innovation Zone.
Abba celebrate their 1974 victory in the Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Waterloo’.
PA/PA Archive
The word Waterloo only entered the public consciousness 200 years ago after a battle. Now, it means many more things.
A shining example. No, really.
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Transport for London leads the way globally as an effective transport authority.
Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878, National Gallery of Art.
The gallery’s latest blockbuster actively blinkers knowledge of the past.