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The opener
How to improve street lighting, shopfronts and city transit, a celebration of rats’ lives and dogs’ dinners and why the solution to our modern malaise is simplicity itself.
Paddle power
As developers eye New York's Gowanus Canal, Ed Stocker takes to the water in one of the city's grubbiest but most interesting corners.
Dummy run
As adolescent entrepreneurs embrace Canada’s gig economy, the training of babysitters is undergoing a growth spurt.
Human scale
Nightingale Housing is building a new model of sustainable living.
Pride of place
Among the art-laden walls of Zürich’s Kronenhalle, photographer Michel Comte has found lifelong respite from his globetrotting work with the famous and fashionable.
Building society
Colombia’s newest city, Serena del Mar, is an experiment in privately funded urbanism.
Back in business
Despite the political challenges tainting its name in the West, Myanmar is making steady economic progress – thanks, partly, to new-found friends.
Politics
Cyprus gets a boost from natural gas, Iran's election and unlikely animal mascots.
Diplomacy
The power of personal relationships in peace talks and the relationship between the US and UK.
Defence
The Chagos Islands, Canada's first female sergeant major and the UAE's arms industry.
Cities
We speak to Phoenix's young and upcoming mayor and explore the (very) hot topic of pyrogeography.
