Bland and outdated? Readers on what it's like to live in a planned city
This week Guardian Cities has been exploring cities built from scratch around the world. Here’s a roundup of readers’ experiences – from Harlow to Perth, Shannon to Islamabad
How Killer Mike reinvented Thomas More for the 21st century
The rapper’s utopian attempt to secede from the US, as documented in his Netflix show Trigger Warning, is more than just clever TV
Are artificial islands the answer to Hong Kong’s housing crisis?
Will a $60bn development to house 1.1 million people help to ease the world’s most unaffordable property market or is it simply ‘pouring money into the sea’?
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
Do you live in a city planned from scratch? Share your experiences
New cities are being built around the world at an unprecedented pace. Britain also has its share of planned cities and towns. But what are they like to live in?
We built this city: the 90-year-olds who made a metropolis
In 1947, 50,000 volunteers helped create Dimitrovgrad, a new city that symbolised the brave new world of communist Bulgaria. Many still live there
