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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 116: The Westway
23 July 2018
We turn our attention to the stretch of elevated motorway that was built as part of an abandoned scheme to turn London into a motor city.
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23 July 2018
We turn our attention to the stretch of elevated motorway that was built as part of an abandoned scheme to turn London into a motor city.
25 October 2018
On 14 August, during heavy rainfall, a motorway bridge collapsed in Genoa. It brought the region to a standstill and now, two months on, we’re back in the city to try and understand the consequences.
12 January 2022
Charles Hecker and Mary Dejevsky react to Boris Johnson’s lockdown party apology. Plus: high-stakes talks between Russia and Nato, Québec’s tax on the unvaccinated, smart motorways and a new exhibition in Hong Kong.
8 May 2023
We ask: how will Serbia’s gun laws change in response to two mass shootings in a week? Plus: a US nuclear-armed submarine is to visit South Korea, a flick through the day’s newspapers, and Sweden’s quest to build the wor…
15 August 2018
We get the latest on the collapse of a motorway bridge in Italy and ask whether Brits who voted to leave the EU have since changed their minds. Plus: the entrepreneur behind one of the world’s best-known fragrance houses…
26 July 2018
We ask two people who have met Imran Khan what Pakistan might look like under his leadership and Monocle’s editor in chief, Tyler Brûlé, explains a merger between two of Australia’s big media beasts. Plus: we look at a…
15 August 2018
We find out how Italy is responding to the collapse of a motorway bridge in Genoa, ask how allies of Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are trying to get him released from prison and hear from the woman behind…
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