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The writer and cultural thinker John Berger once wrote: “The zoo to which people go to meet animals, to observe them, to see them, is, in fact, a monument to the impossibility of such encounters.” Fo…
The industrial revolution saw Britain turn into the ‘workshop of the world’. Productivity and wealth for those in the upper echelons soared. But this came at a very human cost, with many of the worki…
Magnitogorsk is a factory city in Russia. It has often been considered one of the most polluted cities in the world, with health problems rife. But there were some who dreamed of a different Magnitog…
In 1959, a British landscape designer, town planner and architect named Geoffrey Jellicoe dreamed up a town of tomorrow. He called it Motopia.
It imagined a radically different version of the British…
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