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    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      Data PointsOliver Roeder
      How US cities became one big parking lot

      There is a danger that downtowns are easy to drive to but not worth the effort

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Special Report
      Thriving Cities

      This new series will track and highlight the most important initiatives and the policy issues that must be addressed to enable future generations to live healthier and more prosperous urban lives

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Special ReportThriving Cities
      Barranquilla shakes off industrial past in bid to protect biodiversity

      The Colombian port city is embracing green urban development, from transforming the riverfront to building new parks

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Rana Foroohar
      US cities must beware the ‘donut effect’

      Many of America’s urban centres are struggling to lure workers back post-pandemic, but the suburbs are thriving

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The risk of an urban doom loop for America’s old-line cities

      Ailing metropolitan centres need creative solutions from the public and private sectors

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Deyan Sudjic
      The demolition of Glasgow’s architectural swagger

      With buildings either being blown up or neglected, how can the city centre be preserved?

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Special ReportThriving Cities
      Tackling a neglected mass killer: road deaths

      A Caribbean city is taking on one of the world’s biggest causes of death for young people

    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      UK property
      Plans for LED-clad sphere in London at risk as minister steps in

      Critics say the venue in the former Olympic Park will blight thousands of homes with light pollution

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Natalie Whittle
      Fifteen-minute cities are suffering their 15 minutes of fame

      The concept has undergone a social media acid bath and emerged, bedraggled, as a toxic hashtag

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
      Turkey counts massive cost of rebuilding shattered towns and cities

      Tens of billions of dollars will be required to fund the reconstruction of quake-ravaged areas

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      The urban ideal is a 19th-century city with 21st-century enhancements

      We now realise that cars, concrete and commuting ruined cities in the 20th century

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      House & Home
      How to create a city

      Entrepreneurs are planning autonomous ‘charter cities’ as an answer to Africa’s rapid population growth

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Special ReportThriving Cities
      Crowdsourcing app aims to make cities safer for young people

      First rolled out in India, Safetipin is mapping safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      HTSIHow To Give It 2022
      The playground project

      How the art of play became a global movement for good

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      Special ReportThriving Cities
      Why youth must have a say in how cities grow

      The FT’s Thriving Cities series asks how we can innovate to make urban living healthier

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      Conservative Party UK
      Rishi Sunak delays critical vote on UK planning reforms

      Nearly 50 rebel ‘blue wall’ MPs sign amendment to make housebuilding targets only advisory

    • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
      John Muellbauer
      Three growth-friendly reforms for the UK’s broken planning system

      Land value capture can fund new development and ease local fears about lack of infrastructure for new housing

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Gardens
      Parks in the sky inspired by New York’s High Line

      Several projects with disused elevated railway lines launch amid debate about gentrification

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      The Big Read
      Can cities adapt to an era of extreme heat?

      Urban centres across Europe are seeking solutions as record summer temperatures threaten to become an annual event

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Edwin Heathcote
      We need ‘loose-fit’ architecture that adapts to the times

      History shows how buildings can be designed for both flexibility and longevity

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Special ReportThe Future of Cities
      Africa’s looming urban population explosion

      The continent’s cities will expand fast this century — as will the challenges they face

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Special ReportThe Future of Cities
      Radical neighbourhood redevelopment model splits opinion in Tokyo

      Mori Building pioneered developing large areas of the city, attracting interest across Asia

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Special ReportThe Future of Cities
      All change for the future of urban transport

      Planners must balance post-Covid change, environmental concerns and new technology

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Special ReportThe Future of Cities
      San Francisco’s battle to bring a digital city back to real life

      How can the tech hub entice remote workers to return downtown after the pandemic?

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Special ReportThe Future of Cities
      New York landmark is reinvented for the interactive age

      One Times Square is being rethought for a new era of advertising and tourism

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