London: the city’s name is musical, the peoples’ accents are elegant and the East End is alive and buzzing more than ever before with Olympic hype. London’s architecture, spatial arrangement and ...

Rethinking the Urban Landscape, a (free!) exhibition curated by The Building Centre and Landscape Institute, presents a case for a landscape-first approach to city design and regeneration. The show, ...

In the heart of summer, London’s concrete and brick can feel like they’re radiating heat with every step. That’s not just your imagination — it’s the 'urban heat island' effect at work. Cities like ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On a damp Friday morning in December, dozens of people mill around Lidl in Barking, east London, stocking up ...