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Culture & Media

Raleigh reframes cycling as an everyday pleasure

British bicycle maker Raleigh is reframing cycling around the everyday pleasures of urban life with Reasons to be Cheerful, a new campaign created by London independent agency HarrimanSteel.

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Placemaking & Property

Podcast: Des Fitzgerald on Cities of the Future

Welcome to Season 2 (ep 26) of Back to the F\*\*kture! Des Fitzgerald, professor of medical humanities and social sciences, joins The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond to discuss cities of the future.

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Travel & Hospitality

Urban Bathing

An ancient ritual with a firm place in many cultures, communal bathing is undergoing a revival in urban areas.

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Urban Blue Spaces

Ahead of the opening of the UK’s first city-based wellness resort, Therme UK CEO David Russell tells LS:N Global about the company’s vision for worldwide wellness and why cities need more blue spaces.

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Retail

Stat: The most liveable US city is not in North America

In its annual report on the world's most liveable cities, released in June 2023, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reveals that Honolulu (Hawaii) is the first American city in the rankings, reaching 25th spot.

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Culture & Media

Seymourpowell launches AR tourism app

Stirling has become a fully augmented tourist destination thanks to a new AR app developed by renowned design agency Seymourpowell, which worked with British Telecom’s 5G connectivity and Google’s new geospatial platform.

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Design

A floating island city is emerging in Maldives

With the Maldives islands on track to becoming uninhabitable by 2100 due to rising sea levels, the nation is taking action to protect its residents by building a floating city.

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Stat: Young Britons turn to hiking for mindful exercise

With the pandemic changing our relationship with the outdoors, more British consumers are hiking and rambling than ever before, according to research by Mintel.

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Tainan Spring is a lagoon for Taiwanese city-dwellers

MVRDV has transformed an unused shopping centre into a sunken park and public pool called Tainan Spring.