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The quiet failure of a Chinese developer’s ‘Manhattan in Africa’
A refusal to include affordable housing led Johannesburg to reject glossy plans for high-end housing, offices, a rail station and entertainment district. It seems the city will get disconnected car-centric gated communities instead
Nick Van Mead in Johannesburg
24, Oct, 2019 @9:00 AM
Riding the Transcontinental: my saddle-sore sprint across Europe
The self-supported cycle race from the Black Sea in Bulgaria to France’s Atlantic coast is the toughest test of its kind
Nick Van Mead in Brest
18, Aug, 2019 @8:50 AM
Cities from scratch: watch new cities rise from the desert, jungle and sea
Spectacular timelapse satellite images show boom in cities built from scratch across Asia and Africa
Antonio Voce Nick Van Mead
09, Jul, 2019 @10:08 AM
Unbuilt Tokyo: 'depthscrapers' and a million-person pyramid
Had the creators of the underground skyscraper had their way, the Japanese capital might have looked very different indeed
Nick Van Mead
11, Jun, 2019 @12:00 PM
Can you guess the British city from the vintage travel poster?
Leeds or Llandudno? Can you tell these popular destinations from their marketing material?
Nick Van Mead
22, May, 2019 @12:44 PM
Quiz: Can you guess the city from the vintage travel poster?
Think you know Chicago from Saint-Tropez? It’s harder than it looks
Nick Van Mead
18, Apr, 2019 @10:30 AM
22 of world's 30 most polluted cities are in India, Greenpeace says
Analysis of air pollution data finds that 64% of cities exceed WHO guidelines
Nick Van Mead
05, Mar, 2019 @3:43 PM
A brief history of concrete: from 10,000BC to 3D printed houses
The Romans used concrete in everything from bath houses to the Colosseum. Our modern concrete structures will never last as long
Nick Van Mead
25, Feb, 2019 @9:18 AM
‘Redefine the skyline’: how Ho Chi Minh City is erasing its heritage
The next 15 megacities #7: More than a third of the Vietnamese city’s historic buildings have been destroyed over the past 20 years. Can it learn from mistakes made by other fast-growing Asian cities before it is too late?
Nick Van Mead in Ho Chi Minh City
21, Jan, 2019 @7:30 AM
How an emerging African megacity cut commutes by two hours a day
The next 15 megacities #2: Could Dar es Salaam’s experiment with Africa’s first ‘gold standard’ bus rapid transit system offer an alternative to a future dependent on private cars?
Nick Van Mead in Dar es Salaam
08, Jan, 2019 @7:30 AM
A city cursed by sprawl: can the BeltLine save Atlanta?
With 2.5 million people moving to metro Atlanta over the next 20 years, an ambitious project to repurpose a 22-mile loop of old freight lines into walking, cycling and light rail offers the city an alternative future – if they can get it right
Nick Van Mead in Atlanta
25, Oct, 2018 @6:30 AM
The lost city of Atlanta
Atlanta is known as a city where they would knock down a historic building to put up a parking lot. We look at what’s gone and what might be next
Nick Van Mead in Atlanta
23, Oct, 2018 @9:00 AM
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