Why Los Angeles is Scientology's perfect city – an illustrated guide
The church of Scientology has buildings around the world, but none compare to those in America’s city of dreams. So why is LA so important to Scientology?
How do you stop a megacity grinding to a halt? A cartoon
Until four years ago Dar Es Salaam had no public transport. Artist Popa Matumula looks at the impact a new bus system is having on the city’s legendarily bad traffic
Flying pigs and mathematicians: inside the Cambridge pub facing demolition
Artist Jim Butler has spent years sketching the locals and music acts at his local pub. But a redevelopment plan for the area means the pub’s future is uncertain
Calypso bus conductors and acrobatic drug dealers: a bird's-eye view of 90s north London
As a teenager in late 1980s and early 1990s, artist Nic Watts lived in Stroud Green, sketching local life from his roof. He shares his memories of that time
Rubbish Seaside: a 'backhanded love letter' to urban Britain
The illustrated city: artistJack Hurley explains why his satirical railway posters are really a celebration of the glorious mediocrity of Britain’s cities and towns
Alexandria is an invisible city: we live in it, but cannot see it
As a wave of rapid development sweeps through Alexandria, architect Mohamed Gohar is trying to document both the past and the present of this the ancient Egyptian port city
Homes for heroes: 100 years of council housing – a cartoon
In 1919 hoping to address a desperate need for housing, councils started to build. Tony Forbes and Eugene Byrne’s cartoon traces the impact that municipal housing has had Bristol in particular
Pyongyang panorama pulls back curtain on city of mystery
The illustrated city: Artist Gareth J Fuller went to North Korea to create this intricately detailed, hand-drawn depiction of one of the world’s most discussed but least visited cities
From Table Mountain to District 6, cartoonist Brandan Reynolds explores the complicated past and present of the city often referred to as South Africa’s ‘Mother City’
Faded grandeur: the industrial glories of neglected south Leeds – a cartoon
The illustrated city: Writer and artist Francesca Roe pays tribute to a district caught between industrial splendour, post-industrial wasteland and urban blandness
Blind spots: a story about displacement in Berlin – a cartoon
A fire in a block of flats in one of the city’s most expensive neighbourhoods has highlighted Berlin’s increasing gentrification – and the plight of vulnerable tenants
From Naiberi to Nairobi: how Kenya's melting pot capital was born – a cartoon
The Illustrated City: From its rapid growth thanks to a railway to the transformative introduction of the smartphone, Nairobi has refused to remain the same
'Motorists undercut any confidence you ever had in the human race': New York cycling – a cartoon
The Illustrated City: Despite its traffic, for cyclists, Manhattan is a contained sprawl that unfolds like a pop-up book, its history evident everywhere
'This conflicted place made me who I am': Santiago, Chile – a cartoon
The Illustrated City: Cartoonist Panchulei was born by the Plaza Baquedano – a place that is both a symbol of stark social division and the setting for the best moments in Chilean history
'By the time you're through security you're almost naked': Rikers Island – a cartoon
The Illustrated City: asNew York’s most famous jail is also one of its most secretive, artist Christopher Cardinale used his sketchbook to record his visits there
