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While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
New garden cities - old mistakes?
In the third part of his features mini-series GLYN ROBBINS examines the idealistic history of 'social cities' - and how modern versions struggle by being shackled to 'the market'
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Marxist geographer David Harvey describes the history of urban policy as "fraught with utopian dreams."
From Robert Owen's New Lanark and model industrial villages like Port Sunlight and Bournville, to Georges Eugene Haussmann's Paris, Ildefons Cerda's Barcelona and Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, there's a long history of attempts to build the ideal place.
In Britain the most ambitious effort to rethink and redesign urban settlement was the post-war "new towns" programme.
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Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
