Cities + Video
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Beijing skyline swallowed by smog cloud in timelapse footage – videoTimelapse video shot from a Beijing bank on Monday shows a thick cloud of yellow smog swallowing buildings as it rolls into the city
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Stik in Shoreditch: the artist’s hidden tribute to a sold-off London – videoThe street artist Stik set out to ask the denizens of Old Shoreditch how his new mural should reflect their gentrified neighbourhood
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Giant Tetris tournament played on Tel Aviv building – videoA giant Tetris tournament takes place on Tel Aviv’s city hall every Thursday. Two huge joysticks are placed in Rabin Square and people are invited to play each other on the building’s facade, which is covered with 480 LED lights and serves as a 3,000 sq m screen
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A prayer for Mecca: the city that many hajj pilgrims don't see – videoAs the hajj begins once again, Saudi artist Ahmed Mater has revealed unprecedented changes to the holy city – from flashy new hotels to the loss of priceless neighbourhoods
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The lost underwater city of Thonis-Heracleion – videoUnderwater footage of the lost city of Thonis-Heracleion was discovered by renowned archaeologist Franck Goddio in 2000
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La artista Doris Salcedo sobre Bogotá: 'Las fuerzas que actúan aquí son brutales' – videoDoris Salcedo nos da un recorrido por Bogotá y su estudio
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Artist Doris Salcedo on Bogotá: 'The forces at work here are brutal' – videoColombian sculptor Doris Salcedo takes us on a tour of Bogotá and her studio
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Watch as the world's cities rise and fall over nearly 6,000 years – videoRecent research provides a better understanding of urban populations
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One roof, three homes: America catches on to multigenerational living – videoThree homes under one roof gives this big American family companionship, dignity and a nicer house than they could afford on their own
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I built my own social housing: the rise of Chile's 'half-houses' – videoAfter an earthquake and tsunami devastated Constitución, in south Chile, architect Alejandro Aravena is developing a new type of social housing
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I have 500 flatmates: London rediscovers co-housing – videoInside the slick modern-day boarding house – a visionary example of the sharing economy, or a disturbing symptom of the housing crisis?
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How beautiful Beirut is becoming a rubbish tip – videoProtesters parody tourism video by juxtaposing images of Lebanon’s beauty spots with the reality of the country’s garbage crisis
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'We're getting priced out': historic San Francisco church faces eviction – videoSt John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, a historic church in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, is facing eviction due in part to skyrocketing property values in the city
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Welcome to water world: the story behind the floating school of Makoko – videoArchitect Kunlé Adeyemi tells the story of why and how he came to design and build Makoko Floating School in Lagos, how he was inspired by the attitude of the slum’s residents, and how he hopes his structure will act as a prototype for dealing with housing shortages and the impact of climate change – a kind of ‘urbanism on water’
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Abraham Cruzvillegas: ‘La Ciudad de México está al borde del colapso ... pero sigue optimista’ – vídeoPese a la naturaleza precaria de la ciudad, Abraham Cruzvillegas ve mucho que adorar en la urbe donde vive y trabaja: la protesta, la música, la transformación constante ... y las perlas que se encuentra en la basura. El primer artista mexicano en exponer en el espacio Turbine Hall de la Tate Modern en Londres nos muestra de primera mano cómo su arte celebra el caos moderno de la Ciudad de México
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Abraham Cruzvillegas: 'Mexico City is about to collapse … yet it's optimistic' – videoAbraham Cruzvillegas, the first Mexican artist to exhibit at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, shows us how his art embraces the modern chaos of Mexico City
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Antony Gormley: 'London is bought, developed and abandoned' – videoThe Artist and Their City, episode 2: The Turner prize-winning sculptor Antony Gormley Takes us on an intimate tour inside ‘his’ London, with an exclusive peek at new works
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Britain's beautiful landscapes under threat – videoWatch a series of aerial shots of some of the UK’s natural beauty spots released by the National Trust
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Ai Weiwei on Beijing: 'It's a prison for freedom of speech' - videoA Guardian Cities / Tate special series Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing but spent the first 18 years of his life in exile with his family. He now lives and works in the capital, far from the centre but under constant surveillance. In the first of this new series of short films, he offers a unique insight into the artists’ community he helped build in Caochangdi – and reveals his playful techniques for carving out a space in ‘a city that doesn’t really belong to its residents’
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Black gentrification in Harlem: complicating the racial narrative – videoMorgan Jerkins and John Pressley, two young African Americans living in Harlem, debunk the common conception of gentrification as a strictly black and white issue
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Ten years after Katrina: ‘I thought that was it for New Orleans’ – videoIt was predicted that New Orleans would take a decade to recover from Hurricane Katrina. On the 10th anniversary of the costliest natural disaster in US history, four residents from very different neighbourhoods – on both sides of the levees – offer very personal insights into the land, the music ... and whether that prediction has come true
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from the air - videoThe remote Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky as seen from the air
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Smart cities are about people not technology – video
At a roundtable hosted by the Guardian, experts discussed how long it will take for all cities to become smart
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Debris from collapsing building in New York injures passersby – video
Passersby were injured by falling debris when an empty building collapsed suddenly in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York, on Tuesday
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Alain de Botton: 'London is becoming a bad version of Dubai' – video
London is on the verge of being ruined for all future generations, says Alain de Botton. With a whopping 260 towers in the pipeline, here's why we're right to be nervous – and how we can stop this clear desecration of the capital city
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One World Trade observation deck opens to the public – video preview
With little reference to 9/11, the top of the western hemisphere's tallest building provides views of all five New York City boroughs and beyond
The air we breathe How bad is Delhi's air? We strapped a monitor to a rickshaw to find out