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Going up the country

In rural Alabama, a university architecture programme is rebuilding the civic infrastructure of long-neglected towns, one project at a time.

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Bay watch

The Ocean State has become a hub for defence businesses that are helping to lift its economy out of the red and into the blue.

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Personal shoppers

Christopher Lord on how bespoke service is helping America’s family-owned department stores to thrive.

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Size matters

The Boeing 747 inaugurated the age of the jumbo jet and democratised air travel. With its production now ended forever, what will take its place?

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Grand Designs

The towns of Grand Valley are shining new beacons for businesses abandoning expensive US cities

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Outsider art

With a world-class sculpture garden and a new community farm, the curatorial team at Minnesota’s Walker Art Center is finding novel ways to connect with the city – and reimagine its future.

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Blurred lines

A meeting of minds for workplace-furniture titan MillerKnoll is seeing the firm expanding ever more into employees’ homes. Is this the future of the office?

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In full flow

A merger between two televisual giants is offering the Spanish-speaking world a streaming service to rival Netflix. Could the next ‘Squid Game’ be filmed in the shadows of the Sierra Madre?

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Stepping up

From his new office at Nike’s HQ, the design chief of the world’s leading sports brand reveals its plans for the future of products that bear the famous swoosh.

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Older and wiser

Want to start a business in your fifties? A ‘wisdom school’ in Mexico will give you faith.

Global

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Urban upswing

Dallas has sprawled in all directions but much of the action still comes from the city centre: from the Arts District and newly-built parklands to the neighbourhoods that are being brought back to life as new residents move…

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Meeting in the middle

Long the first stop for migrants coming into the US, Miami is now bursting at the seams with New Yorkers heading south for the city’s sunshine, music and burgeoning technology scene.

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Electric valley

As the new base for the electric-vehicle industry, America’s fastest-growing city is revving its engines.

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Balance of power

More than 80 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the surprise military strike still looms large in Hawaii’s memory. Now, amid rising tensions with China, the US is working to shore up its dominance in the Pacific.

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Blazing a trail

The towns around Bozeman, Montana, are flying to the rescue of wildfire-hit communities in the US.

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New frontier

A flurry of young, dynamic industries and high-spirited entrepreneurs is breathing new life into this booming western outpost.

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Into the abyss

The International Seabed Authority is the most important club you’ve never heard of. We gain exclusive access to mine its depths.

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War of words

Since the 1970s the UK capital has been the home of the Arab media’s dissenting voices. But now, amid a Saudi and Qatar squabble, the press crackles with opinions, anger and propaganda.

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Ghosts of the past

Belgium has opened an impressive new embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But this soft-power flourish will struggle to repair relations with the old colonial master – especially when the DRC is set on a worrying…

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Sea change

A tiny North Atlantic archipelago of 50,000 people, the Faroe Islands falls under the Danish crown. But economic growth and cultural confidence means that some Faroese see themselves as increasingly distant from the Danes…

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Hidden talents

On Saudi Arabia’s fledgling cultural scene, artists tread a precarious path to put the kingdom on the international art map. While inspiration and invention flourish behind closed doors, the spectres of censorship and…

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Poll position

Nothing encapsulates German self-image like the country’s car industry. With voters set to decide between more Merkel or a change of direction, we considered what the contenders’ rides say about their popular appeal.

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