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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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A flat-packed forest

The regular ritual of creating seasonally changing mini-forests for her indoor cats brought Abi Palmer a focus for reflection while the cats explored.

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Seeking the hoarder in literature

As she strives to deepen her understanding of hoarding, Georgie Evans turns to books. But depictions of hoards and hoarders are few and often sparse, except in one surprising place.

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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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  • Ming herbal (painting): Chinese jungle mynah
  • Two lions chasing wild boar into the jungle. Colour lithograph.
  • A hippopotamus drinking from a stream in the jungle. Colour lithograph.
  • Two elephants bathing in a stream in a jungle. Colour lithograph.
  • Mountain seen from the jungle, India. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.
  • A leopard prowling about a group of antelopes in a jungle. Colour lithograph.
  • David Livingstone, suffering from fever, carried through the jungle by his men. Lithograph.
  • David Livingstone memorial in Blantyre; Livingstone being transported through the jungle by his men. Photoprint.
  • A rhinoceros, three giraffes, three antelopes and a wildebeest approaching a waterhole in a jungle. Colour lithograph.
  • An orang-utan sitting on a branch of a tree in a jungle. Colour lithograph after W. Kuhnert.
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