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• ‘People think apartments are for losers’: the homes that could help solve LA’s housing crisis

  11-01-2023 17:24
  Los Angeles is choked with traffic while many have to live on the streets thanks to the city’s archaic planning laws. Could modernist apartment blocks built a century ago make LA liveable again?‘A true southern California city,” declared a 1910 issue of Out West magazine, “would be a garden filled with homes.” It was one of numerous publications at the time designed to lure people to move to the golden state, extolling the virtues of the sun-kissed, health-giving we
  
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• A local’s guide to Melbourne: ‘The best part is the element of surprise’

  11-01-2023 15:00
  Victoria’s capital is rich in hidden galleries, bars and clubs, idiosyncratic buildings and exciting food, says architectural designer Nancy BekaFind out what’s on in Melbourne and beyond with Summer in the City: our ultimate guide to events around AustraliaWhile Melbourne’s fine dining scene is sensational, it’s the city’s multiculturalism that makes eating here so exciting. Sydney Road in Brunswick is a microcosm of this, a place where old Italian supermarkets min
  
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