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  • Photo of Dawn Foster and text reading Dawn Foster memorial essay with logos of the sponsors below

    Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize

    Dawn Foster (1986-2021) was a brilliant and fearless working-class journalist who made a significant impact with her work on housing

  • A screenshot from the video game Disco Elysium, showcasing some of the game's dilapidated architecture

    Pixels and mortar: The politics of video game worldbuilding

    With the worlds of architecture and video games becoming increasingly intertwined, Gerry Hart examines how video games communicate through their design

  • A modern, white apartment building set against a blue sky in the Aspern Seestadt neighborhood of Vienna, Austria

    Building feminist cities

    Patriarchal violence is built into our cities but, as Marion Roberts argues, urban designers from around the world are finding ways to unravel it

  • 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

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