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Pas Normal Studios, Denmark
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Mobility

The Neo-Urbanites: The Urban Wayfinder

Meet the Urban Wayfinder, a Neo-Urbanite who navigates the city by bike, mapping his surroundings and choosing the scenic route over the fastest one.

GLP-1 Pill Wegovy®, Global
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Food & Drink

Inside the Peptide Boom

Once confined to bodybuilders and biohackers, peptides are becoming mainstream wellness currency – self-injected, celebrity-endorsed and grey market-grown, blurring the line between medical treatment and lifestyle upgrade.

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Sustainability

Stat: Environmental priorities are rising among British consumers

New Ipsos polling finds that 44% prioritise protecting the environment over economic growth, up from 38% in November 2024.

Merrell, Global
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Fashion

The Neo-Urbanites: The Urban Technicalist

Meet The Urban Technicalist, a Neo-Urbanite whose wardrobe centres on function, adaptability and material performance, forming an everyday uniform engineered for city life.

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Sustainability

Stat: Heatwaves put £4.4bn ($5.99bn, €5.14bn) strain on UK economy

Repeated heatwaves have cost the economy an estimated £4.4bn ($5.99bn, €5.14bn) in lost output from May to the end of July 2026, according to green think tank Verdant.

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Diverging Demographics

Singapore launches heavily oversubscribed co-living scheme for under-35s

More than 500 young Singaporeans applied for a new government-backed co-living initiative within 11 days of its launch, making the scheme five times oversubscribed.

The High Line, US
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Travel & Hospitality

The Neo-Urbanites: The Urban Rewilder

Meet the Urban Rewilder, a Neo-Urbanite reclaiming dense city life through walkable neighbourhoods, hybrid third spaces and new forms of citizen-led placemaking.

What do I wear by Zalando. Creative by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, Global
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Global Drivers

Global Drivers 2027+: Diverging Demographics

Demographic reality is diverging from the systems built to manage it, according to The Future Laboratory’s analysts, as populations continue to age, boom, fragment and re-organise how they live and connect.

Backstory bookshop and bar, UK
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Colliding Technologies

Instagram turns reading into a social signal

Instagram has introduced a profile feature that lets users display the book they are currently reading, turning literary taste into a new prompt for social interaction.