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Art

Back on solid ground

Art and music have been a driving force behind the cultural and literal recovery of the earthquake-struck Italian city that is reopening to the world.

  • Issue #167
  • 9 min read
Back on solid ground
Urbanism

Reclaiming the city

Renewed and refreshed by the arrival of the Manifesta biennale, the venues in Kosovo’s capital are propelling its art scene forwards.

  • Issue #157
  • 9 min read
Colorful tapestries with geometric patterns and folk motifs hanging on clotheslines in a basement space
Urbanism

Urbanism

The fate of Friendship Park, which straddles the border, hangs in the balance.

  • Issue #157
  • 4 min read
Pat Nixon shaking hands with crowd at Friendship Park border opening in 1971
Affairs

Changing tides

Dallas has gone from a deserted downtown to a place where people want to be – but it didn’t happen overnight. Here we look at how this urban turnaround was made.

  • Issue #155
  • 6 min read
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson in a dark suit and blue shirt standing against a concrete wall
Urbanism

Cities, slicker

Neglected industrial parts of cities, from Rome to Istanbul, are in the throes of thrilling regeneration.

  • Issue #155
  • 10 min read
Illustration showing people viewing a futuristic mixed-use development through large windows from inside a transit vehicle
Architecture

Art direction

How can the Uzbek capital become an art city? The plan: to eschew starchitects and take things slowly.

  • Issue #149
  • 10 min read
Curved brick building facade with intricate geometric relief patterns.
Urbanism

Revving the engine

After a major financial collapse, Motor City’s creatives are joining forces. So could the artists and gallerists behind the resurgence get the whole of Detroit into gear?

  • Issue #149
  • 8 min read
Oxidized bronze sculpture of DeLorean car with gull-wing doors open displayed on white pedestal
Urbanism

Core values

The architects aiding downtown São Paulo’s rapid revival are devoted as much to the area’s inimitable spirit as its modernist heritage.

  • Issue #149
  • 16 min read
Sunlit courtyard with tropical plants and natural materials in modern retail space

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