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Chapter 1
Saving 152 to 158 The Strand
We meet Clementine Cecil, director of Save Britain’s Heritage, the pressure group behind the campaign to save 152 to 158 The Strand, a terrace of historic townhouses that stand on their original medieval plots in the very heart of London.
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Chapter 2
High-speed train between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
A decade after a bullet train between Brazil’s two largest cities was proposed, the project is still stuck. So what went wrong?
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Chapter 3
Toronto’s Olympic aspirations
Toronto has a record of five failed Olympic bids and the city has become a sort of bad case study, making urbanists and academics wonder why such a stable and vibrant city falls short when it comes to sport’s most high-profile games.
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Chapter 4
The runner-up
In the competitive world of architecture, the gap between silver and gold in a bidding contest can be the difference between projects being built or not. ArchDaily editor James Taylor-Foster talks us through what happens to those projects that don’t quite make the top spot.
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