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Nordhavn: The Danish ‘city’ that’s been designed for an easy life

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Copenhagen’s once-industrial port has been planned to make everything – from schools and play areas to businesses and recreational spaces – accessible within five minutes.

While cruising the canals of Copenhagen in the summer of 2023, my guide pointed out Nordhavn, the city’s once-industrial neighbourhood, excitedly claiming it would become the coolest new city in Europe. From the boat, I couldn’t see much beyond a few residential buildings and lots of giant construction machinery, but, as an architect, I was interested to know more.
So, 12 months later, I returned to Copenhagen and headed back to Nordhavn, just a 15-minute metro ride from Copenhagen’s central station.
This time, standing at Århusgadekvarteret, the core of the new development, I could see gleaming apartment buildings, high-end office spaces and a cafe-lined boardwalk along the previously industrial harbour. Dozens of people were lying on colourful beach towels spread across the waterfront, all soaking in the Scandinavian summer sun. It was a peaceful, serene scene, with none of the morning commuter chaos I was used to seeing in cities around the world.
And that’s because Nordhavn has been specifically designed to make life easier.
“Although it looks like any modern district, it’s the world’s first five-minute city,” explained my guide, Bente Hoffman from immersive cultural tour company Slow Tours. “When the project is complete, everything you need will be within a 400m walk.”

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Artists imagine a new utopia for Kenya’s capital

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Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from.
Seen from one of the city’s comfortable apartment blocks or homes, then yes, perhaps – from one of its densely packed slums, then no.
There, life can be characterised by poverty and ecological disaster, such as flooding and deadly landslides.
But an art collective – Kairos Futura – has been trying to take what might seem like some of the city’s more dystopian elements and create a vision of a utopia, or at least how that might be achieved.
Their exhibition Hakuna Utopia features the works of seven artists exploring themes of apocalypse and resilience – some in quite abstract ways – as they respond to the daily challenges endured by Nairobi’s six million residents.

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Queer to Baby Reindeer: How LGBTQ stories got real in 2024

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From Queer to Baby Reindeer and Will & Harper, LGBTQ representation took a step forward as film and TV showed more varied and authentic characters than ever before.

Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, Queer, takes us to the dream-like streets of 1950s Mexico City, where we meet Lee (Daniel Craig) – a US expat who spends most of his time downing tequila shots, smoking, and (mostly unsuccessfully) pursuing young men. As Lee self-medicates with alcohol and opiates, he becomes infatuated with Allerton (Drew Starkey), a handsome former US navy serviceman who he meets by chance. The pair soon start a relationship where, for the first time, Lee experiences sex that feels reciprocal, with emotional strings attached. But Allerton soon becomes distant. As a confused

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AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests

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This is the third feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research and treatments.

Ovarian cancer is “rare, underfunded, and deadly”, says Audra Moran, head of the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance (Ocra), a global charity based in New York.
Like all cancers, the earlier it is detected the better.
Most ovarian cancer starts in the fallopian tubes, so by the time it gets to the ovaries, it may have already spread elsewhere too.
“Five years prior to ever having a symptom is when you might have to detect ovarian cancer, to affect mortality,” says Ms Moran.
But new blood tests are emerging that use the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to spot signs of the cancer in its very early stages.
And it’s not just cancer, AI can also speed up other blood tests for potentially deadly infections like pneumonia.

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