The heavy sound of vehicles trundling overhead is impossible to ignore from beneath one of the UK’s best-known concrete structures, which turns 50 on Tuesday. Thousands of motorists travel through the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the outskirts of Birmingham at every hour of every day. Spaghetti Junction at 50: What lies beneath?
Le périurbain fait historiquement l’objet d’une certaine stigmatisation. Pourtant, ces territoires entre villes et champs recèlent un potentiel écologique méconnu en plus de favoriser l’émergence de sociabilités locales, comme nous l’explique Anne-Laure, lectrice d’Usbek & Rica. Et si on changeait de regard sur les banlieues résidentielles ?
The story of Rome’s unlikeliest lake begins with fake maps, an angry community, and a patch of very dry land. In the 1990s, at a construction site just a couple miles east of the storied Colosseum, a crew was digging into the ground, excavating the site of a planned underground parking lot. Lire la suite …
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