Stories
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
Catalogue
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Conference on matters relating to public health : notes of the proceedings at a meeting of the conference of representatives of the Corporation of the City of London, the metropolitan asylums board and of metropolitan borough councils, held at the County Halls, spring gardens, on Thursday, 6th April, 1911, to consider matters relating to public health.
Conference on matters relating to public health (1911 : London)Date: [1911]- Books
Representations of the embossed, chased, and engraved subjects and inscriptions, which decorate the tobacco box and cases, belonging to the Past Overseers Society of the Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evangelist, in the City of Westminster / [Simon Stephenson].
Stephenson, SimonDate: 1824- Books
Cities of farmers : urban agricultural practices and processes / edited by Julie C. Dawson and Alfonso Morales.
Date: [2016]- Books
Cemeteries : rules of management / [Council of the] City of Sheffield.
Date: [1970?]- Books
A guide to active ageing in Sheffield / Sheffield City Council.
Date: 2012