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Designing death in the virtual city

Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.

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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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Air of threat

Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.

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Nurturing my autistic, gender-questioning child

As mother of an autistic child who questions her gender, Jude Lax describes cherishing her growing daughter as she explores her identity.

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  • World AIDS Day : Monday 1st December 1997 / organised by Edinburgh and the Lothians Word AIDS Day Planning Group ; funded by Lothian Health and The City of Edinburgh Council ; Crusaid Scotland.
  • World AIDS Day : Monday 1st December 1997 / organised by Edinburgh and the Lothians Word AIDS Day Planning Group ; funded by Lothian Health and The City of Edinburgh Council ; Crusaid Scotland.
  • City of Oxford: plan of the city with important buildings either named or marked. Line engraving.
  • A Chinese walled city: plan. Painting by a Chinese artist.
  • W. Bullock, Plan of Mexico City, "Six months' residence and travels in Mexico"
  • German Hospital, New York City: floor plan ; portrait of Sir William Tite. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • German Hospital, New York City; and floor plan for Park Cottage, East Sheen, Surrey. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1869, after C. Pfeiffer.
  • 'A new plan of the City of London, Westminster, and Southwark', reproduced from that issue with the 1720 edition of Strype's revised edition of Stoe's Survey of London
  • Déjeuner to Viscount Selby on his admission to the freedom of the city : October 10th, 1905 : the Right Hon. Sir John Pound, Bart., (Lord Mayor) : plan of table / Mansion House.
  • Déjeuner to Viscount Selby on his admission to the freedom of the city : October 10th, 1905 : the Right Hon. Sir John Pound, Bart., (Lord Mayor) : plan of table / Mansion House.
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