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Travel & Hospitality

A platform matching Spanish urbanites with rural towns

Vente a Vivir a un Pueblo, which translates as Come Live in a Town, is a new Spanish platform helping urbanites discover rural locations as potential future homes.

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Marketing & Branding

The American Middle

The American middle class, once the aspirational ideal, is becoming a myth. Brands must learn to speak to this demographic that have felt left behind by the rise of coastal elitism.

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Food & Drink

Jo Vidler: Farmopolis

The CEO on the new venture that is bringing together food, farming and culture.

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Food & Drink

Farm house

New York – Urby Staten Island is a new residential development featuring a 5,000-square-feet urban farm.

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Food & Drink

Locals only

London – Craft London is the latest restaurant to espouse local and seasonal eating, but in an unusual corner of the city.

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Design

Rural harmony: Nest We Grow designed for community to harvest local foods

Hokkaido, Japan – Architects Kengo Kuma & Associates and graduate students from UC Berkeley have unveiled Nest We Grow, an eco-friendly community centre for locals to grow, harvest, store, cook, eat and compost local produce.

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Design

Waterworks: Barge designed for sustainable crop cultivation

Treviso, Italy – Aware of the pressures on the planet with a growing population, Italian design duo Antonio Girardi and Cristiana Favretto of studiomobile have created a floating greenhouse.

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Food & Drink

Fighting faddism: Waitrose product development

Retailers looking to keep up with the latest trends have to work carefully to distinguish fad from fashion.

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Marketing & Branding

Liquid gold: New London juice bar sets the standard

London – One cannot go very far in Los Angeles or New York without spotting an establishment offering cold-pressed juice. The craze known as juicing has become a full-on phenomenon in the US and is slowly making its way to British shores.