Artist Tracey Emin takes a nostalgic turn about Margate, taking in the mysterious shell grotto of its Victorian heyday, the since-reinstated Dreamland amusement park and endless views of Turner's sea.
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Yanaka is an urban ecology suffused with a sense of community and history
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Gubbio is relentless, unflinching, solid, permanent, old, like an ancient, rocky landscape
Berlin is a place for all ages, writes Anupama Kundoo, where people are an integral part of urban life; one that continues to renew itself with youthful energy, and allows young people to develop a strong civic sense.
Loved and loathed in equal measure, Los Angeles is in almost every way the antithesis of the classical European city: vast, sparse and built for the automobile, writes Elly Ward.
Washington DC’s urban grain creates a backdrop against which classical monuments shine, finds Francis Terry.
Lucca is a stage for civic life, find Patty Hopkins, who followed Sheila Hale’s ‘American Express Pocket Guide to Florence and Tuscany’ to the Tuscan city in search for a family holiday home.
Paul Karakusevic finds renewed interest in London for housing built by the public sector, for the public good.
Las Vegas was a place to learn from, rather than love or hate.
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Rio is the most cosmopolitan city in the world, blessed with modernism free of European angst
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In Rome I learned the secret of a successful city: it gives good dreams
My Kind of Town Brussels is a city of interiors of great power and dignity
