City portraits

This is not a ‘Guide to Dublin’; nor is it about conservation in the currently accepted meaning of the word. It is about urbanism

Proving roads and urban planning can be as divisive as walls: twenty years since the peace process began Belfast remains a city disunited

Kevin Barry paints an auto/biographical portrait of a city that is a man; that is Cork

Schaerbeek’s elegant and striking watchtower by MSA and V+ proves that the design of housing still constitutes a powerful weapon in the battle against social exclus...

In the face of gradual gentrification, Antwerp must guard against losing the edge that defines the city

Transforming the riverside and converting a Brutalist bank into a centre for cinema, V+ and L’Escaut set a gold standard for Charleroi’s future as the ci...

The tapestry of the Caribbean diaspora has been mapped on to west London streets during Notting Hill Carnival for more than 50 years, but faultlines are still visible

In contrast to its staid, soulless reputation, the outskirts of Croydon brim with life

Poised at the edge of Milton Keynes’ Modernist city plan, 6a Architects’ extension of the MK Gallery rekindles a lost arcadian vision

The urbanisation of Los Angeles racially segregated its citizens through ‘redlining’ policies, an urban violence that perseveres today

By exploiting legal loopholes to target the super-rich, developers are ravaging New York and its people

Vacant land in Chicago is far from empty, but teeming with histories, memories and traces of toxic ground

In African cities – as in cities all over the world – ‘building as development’ is depriving people of their right to the city, exacerbating inequality...

The Pixley House refurbishment reconciles desire with emergent conditions

A sense of promise hangs in the air over Algiers, accompanied by renewed interest in the fate of the Casbah, but its proposed regeneration is cause for concern