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Cities: The spirit of urban renewal

A number of declining ex-industrial European cities like Bilbao, Berlin and Lille have succeeded in using culture to buck the downward trend. But a fancy new opera house or mega-museum is not enough to kindle the urban renewal dynamic: an open mind for the unexpected and even inefficient is also an indispensable ingredient.

8 September 2010
85 La Stampa Turin
Comedy: Funny foreigners

Heard the one about the German, the Italian and the Norwegian? They are all reinventing comedy in English by playing on nuances in their own languages

20 August 2010
22 The Guardian London

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