Cities
A city cemetery is the most detailed archive it leaves in the open air
Burial grounds record trades, languages, migrations and epidemics in a form that is public, dated and free…
Cities
Places that reward a long stay, and how to read them once you are there.
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Cities
A weekly market is a circuit, and the trader is the part that moves
Market days are staggered between neighbouring towns because the same stallholders travel a rota, which…
Cities
A closed factory becomes a visitable place only if someone can keep the roof on
Industrial heritage survives where a use, a subsidy or a story could be found for buildings that were built…
Cities
A town on a border lives off the difference between the two sides
Settlements at a frontier are built on whatever is cheaper, legal or simply available across the line…
Cities
A university town has two populations and only one of them is there in July
Places where a large institution dominates run on an academic calendar rather than a commercial one, and…
Cities
A working place of worship is public space with conditions attached
Churches, mosques, temples and synagogues are among the few interiors in most cities that anyone may enter…
Cities
A city park is a piece of dated argument about what a city owes its residents
Public green space arrived in waves, each with a different theory of what it was for, and the layout of a…
Cities
A city that limits its visitors has usually run out of quieter options first
Entry charges, timed slots, coach bans and rules on short-term letting are late-stage responses to a…