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June 2024

  • Four burrowing owls on a lawn in a wealthy Florida beach community with a convertible car driving by in the background.

    The age of extinction
    Crabs, cockatoos and ringtail possums: the wild things thriving in our cities

    From bees to burrowing owls, many species are adapting to urban environments and, with a little extra help from us, more could follow suit
  • Morden Wharf

    The UK housing crisis
    ‘Labour can’t have their cake and eat it’: housing crisis will force party into planning rows

    The shadow housing minister’s objection to high-rise flats in his constituency is typical of the dilemmas Keir Starmer, who has pledged to build 1.5m new homes, will face
    • Indoors at breaktime: the school in a London office block

    • Do look down: how daredevil artist Donn Delson shoots from the sky

    • ‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’ The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch

May 2024

  • Cement mortar

    Science Weekly
    Concrete without CO2: can our biggest building material go green? – podcast

    Concrete is strong and durable – but is also terrible for the planet, due to one key ingredient: cement. But researchers have now found a way to recover old cement while also reducing the environmental impact of recycling steel
  • Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on the touchline during Saturday’s FA Cup final

    ‘It was everything we wanted to be’: why Barcelona has given Manchester much more than Pep and fine food

    Man City’s success under ex-Barça manager Pep Guardiola mirrors the reinvention of the booming city centre, but its roots lie in decades-old civic connections
    • Liverpool to transform into Taylor Town to welcome Taylor Swift

    • ‘A kick in the teeth’: Leeds artists fear loss of spaces is killing cultural scene

    • Europe's housing crisis
      ‘What if we built our own?’: young Amsterdammers fight housing crisis with cooperative build

April 2024

  • Alan Colquhoun and John Miller - Architects<br>Alan Colquhoun (1921-2012) and John Miller - Architects, pictured in The Tatler in 1962. Date: 1962

    Letters: John Miller obituary

  • A drone’s eye view of the northern section of the redeveloped King’s Cross site, 2023.

    ‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross

  • Man standing on side of his canal boat wearing socks.

    Fee hikes will price us out of canals, say houseboaters in England and Wales

  • A kākā at Zealandia ecosanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

    Soundscapes
    Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds

  • Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review
    Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts

  • What sets me apart in the US? I’m car-free by choice

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a controversial idea in the UK?

  • The alternatives
    ‘We need to accept the weeds’: the Dutch ‘tile whipping’ contest seeking to restore greenery

March 2024

  • Lauren O'Neill

    ‘Neighbourhood restaurants’ – really? These Instagrammable impostors are nothing of the sort

    Lauren O'Neill
  • People in Central Park, New York

    Weatherwatch
    Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levels

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