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‘Neither north nor south’: Nottingham by Carol Adlam – an urban cartoon

Author-illustrator Carol Adlam looks at liminal spaces caught between this Midlands city’s industrial past and its drive towards the futureSituated at the very centre of England, Nottingham is neither a traditional “northern” or “southern” city. With a…

Author-illustrator Carol Adlam looks at liminal spaces caught between this Midlands city’s industrial past and its drive towards the future

Situated at the very centre of England, Nottingham is neither a traditional “northern” or “southern” city. With a a significant working class and industrial legacy that has left its traces on the cityscape in the lace-market, the extensive network of caves that run under the city, the canal, and derelict industrial-era mill buildings, it is also. Socially it is divided: on the one hand it is a thriving city with two universities; on the other, there remains significant social deprivation in areas such as Nottingham north, with very low literacy levels.

More trees are the answer to cool down our cities | Marco Amati and Lauren Rickards

Leaving trees in the ground and planting new ones could help future proof new development sites against extreme heatUrban life can be an insulated existence, consisting of circling between one temperature-controlled space after another. But cities are …

Leaving trees in the ground and planting new ones could help future proof new development sites against extreme heat

Urban life can be an insulated existence, consisting of circling between one temperature-controlled space after another. But cities are not invulnerable to climatic changes. Indeed, when it comes to heat, they can fare worse. They are also far from homogenous. Counter to the images of “domed cities” that Buckminster Fuller proposed for Manhattan in the 1960s and that Dubai is touted to be pursuing, cities do not have equally distributed temperatures. Even if they do, the risk those temperatures represent are far from equally perceived or experienced.