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Tom Webb assesses the appeal of a historic wooden roller coaster that has just celebrated its 100th birthday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In part two of our series looking at conflict and the city, we examine the concept of rebuilding, as well as how the character of the city plays a role in the process. Plus: how to create a new metropolis while showing compassion for the past.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva ...  Show more

Featuring: Frances Stacy, Economic Strategist and Chairwoman of the UN Global Digital Finance Committee Vish Ramaswami, Head of APAC Private Investments at Cambridge Associates What would YOU like to hear about on Bloomberg? Help make shows like ours even better by taking our Blo ...  Show more

The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America (U California Press, 2023) is the first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers—and why it works. Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention econom ...  Show more

Hélène Chartier (Director of Urban Planning and Design at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group)

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Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens (John Wiley & Sons, 2021) offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original empirical co ...  Show more