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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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How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction

Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.

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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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Maladaptive daydreaming, gender myths and me

Can you daydream too much? Excessive daydreamer Laura Grace Simpkins reflects on studies into “maladaptive daydreaming” and asks why so few fellow dreamers seem to be men.

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  • Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a part of the Forum baths constructed 138-161 AD. Photograph by Anderson, ca. 1931.
  • Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD. Photograph by Anderson, 192-.
  • Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD: a fresco depicting vegetables, wine and fruit, seen from the front; marble steps descend below. Photograph.
  • Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD: a fresco depicting vegetables, wine and fruit, seen from the front; marble steps descend below. Photograph after G.E. Chauffourier, 1928.
  • India: a ruined building. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • Mexico: a ruined building overgrown with foliage. Photograph by Desiré Charnay, ca. 1858.
  • Taiping kung, near Kiukiang, Kiangsi province: a ruined religious building, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1872.
  • Taiping kung, near Kiukiang, Kiangsi province: a ruined religious building, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1872.
  • Mexico: a ruined building, with decorative carvings, overgrown with foliage. Photograph by Desiré Charnay, ca. 1858.
  • Baths of Diocletian, Rome: a religious procession walking pass the Baths ruins and surrounding buildings. Tinted aquatint.
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