Cities
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As Italy’s capital falls apart, a secret organisation is doing the repairs the authorities won’t
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Photographer Zhang Kechun travelled across China to document how urbanisation is reshaping the country’s natural landscapes -
From handpainted metro signs to art deco buildings, the Indian city is beginning to appreciate and conserve its unique design heritage
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In pictures
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Artist Jake Berman plots old public transport systems in period style. From LA to Toronto, San Francisco to Buffalo, he has created maps of cities’ modern transit too, so you can click and compare
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Inspired by the Japanese Ukiyo-E woodblock prints of the Floating World, Marius Black’s portraits show the daily urban life of Filipinos -
DC resident Josh Kramer realised the lives of the US capital’s government workers were alien to him. So he joined them for lunch -
Walking from Brixton to Tottenham, Toby Leigh created a record of his journey, connecting one end of the city to the other through the people he encountered -
When an American friend visited Lóa Hjálmtýsdottir in Iceland, she noticed something strange about how the locals behaved
Films
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In rare footage of the North Korean capital, the Guardian gained an insight into what daily life is like for its citizens. Escorted by government minders at all times we were invited to visit a nursery, zoo, swimming pool, funfair, parks, factories, festivals and more, but were left questioning if anything was real. After returning to the UK, Emma Graham-Harrison reflects on what it's like spending a week immersed in a personality cult
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Comedian Tanishi Matsubara has an unusual system for renting cheaply in Osaka - he seeks out 'stigmatised property': places in which the previous inhabitant has died
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Suresh Kumar Sharma is an auto-rickshaw driver in Delhi, a city with some of the world’s dirtiest air – and where many locals don’t know how unhealthy the pollution really is
Cities in motion
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Artist Jake Berman plots old public transport systems in period style. From LA to Toronto, San Francisco to Buffalo, he has created maps of cities’ modern transit too, so you can click and compare
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The Tyne pedestrian and cycling tunnels, completed in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, are to reopen this summer after a delayed and over-budget restoration -
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The privatisation must stop before all we have left are gated communities and golf courses, writes Professor Brett Christophers of Uppsala University in Sweden -
Plans for the company’s vast new ‘gathering place’ have been shelved after a backlash. But Apple is growing bolder in its designs on public space -
He has proposed eliminating social housing and privatising streets – so is Zaha Hadid’s successor the most hated man in urbanism? -
The numbers are in for our 15 best-read stories of the year. Now’s the time to check if you missed any – and let us know what you want us to cover in 2018
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The city has endured much through the years, but as cartoonist Tayo Fatunla grew up saying: ‘Eko oni baje’ or ‘Lagos cannot be destroyed’ -
The next 15 megacities #14: Surat’s battle to hold back water has raged since its first flood wall in 1664. As its population soars towards 10 million, the ‘diamond city’ needs new solutions -
The next 15 megacities #9: Known as ‘the city of a hundred lakes’ until most got paved over, Wuhan has a flooding problem. Can permeable pavements and artificial wetlands soak it up? -
Replica allows real-time testing of city’s infrastructure in the face of emergencies – and in future could be used in cities worldwide
Why is Britain so bad at planning cities?