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  • Two photos side by side. Dawn Foster sitting at a dinner smiling. A tribute writting on a white wall reads Dawn Foster Forever

    Dawn Foster: a voice from the sharp end

    A tribute to our friend Dawn Foster, who died earlier this year, from her friends Gary Younge, Helen Zaltzman, Sam Tarry, Sarah Woolley and everyone at Red Pepper

  • Photo of he Dorman Long tower prior to its demolition

    The fate of Teesside’s industrial heritage

    After the destruction of the Dorman Long Tower, George Walker calls for a democratic approach to commemorating Teesside’s industrial heritage

  • A city scape from the sky shows the huge Rio Olympic park against the sprawl of the city in Rio

    Lying through their legacy-speak

    Olympic ‘legacy’ has greased the path for enormous, upward transfer of wealth to the global propertied classes, writes Jules Boykoff

  • Image: William McCue

    Why planning is political

    Andrea Sandor explores how community-led developments are putting democracy at the heart of the planning process

  • A Black man holding a microphone is bathed in stage lighting while he sings

    Stormzy, Grenfell and what it means to be a ‘threat’

    The artist is giving a vital platform to a new generation of voices pointing out the hypocrisy in which crimes get punished and which get rewarded. By Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly

  • A plant growing next to a road in Berlin, surrounded by a pebble stone curb

    Dig for victory

    Armed with nothing more than trowels and a vision, guerilla gardeners are part Alan Titchmarsh, part Che Guevara. Their green acts of disobedience are transforming cityscapes around the world, Joanne Clarkson writes

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