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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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The family food of a kebab van man

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.

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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms

Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?

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The Garden

We explore ideas of belonging and colonial legacies, guerrilla gardening in response to a tragic event, and the link between an urban nature reserve and a GP’s surgery.

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  • A feathered circle inside which are several faces of native Americans; advertisement for Urban Aboriginal AIDS Awareness for the National AIDS Strategy supported by Health Canada. Lithograph by Julie Simoa, 1995.
  • Two naked men making love against a window with one wearing a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS ACTION Committee of Massachusetts. Colour lithograph by Peter Urban, 1991.
  • Two naked men making love against a window with one wearing a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS ACTION Committee of Massachusetts. Colour lithograph by Peter Urban, 1991.
  • Two naked men making love against a window with one wearing a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS Committee of Toronto, Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. Colour lithograph by Peter Urban, 1991.
  • The blue silhouette of a foetus in the womb of a woman; a warning to pregnant women about the dangers of passing on AIDS through pregnancy issued by the Ministry of Health & Urban Development of Belize. Colour lithograph by Stage 1 Design, ca. 1995.
  • A circular crossed plate (?) incorporating indigenous symbols including a feather, a pipe, a polar bear and stones above a pot of flames; advertisement for the Urban Aboriginal AIDS Awareness program for the National AIDS Strategy supported by Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Julie Simoa.
  • Smoke : a study of town air / by Julius B. Cohen and Arthur G. Ruston.
  • Two penguins converse about AIDS representing an advertisement for AIDS and HIV-related events between 28th and 30th November and 1st and 3rd December (1998?) in Japan. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
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