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Just like starting over: when Britain (briefly) fell in love with New Towns

In an exciting post-war moment, completely planned towns sprung up around the country. Years later, they don't get the credit they deserve, says Christopher Beanland

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Going off track

In the 1980s, Britain pioneered futuristic levitating trains pushed by magnets. Now, despite gleaming maglev trains gliding around Asia, Britain's version has been left to waste. What went wrong?

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What cities in the post-Brexit era could learn from a 14th-century trading bloc

As national unions fracture over the spoils of globalisation, will we see the resurgence of city-state alliances, like the Hanseatic League?

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Canned designs: Airborne at King's Cross

In the final instalment of our series, Christopher Beanland looks at an unlikely elevated airport in central London

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Canned designs: Bold, brazen but never built in Pittsburgh

Christopher Beanland revisits Frank Lloyd Wright's singular fusion of high rises, ramps, cars and greenery

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Canned designs: Tokyo's floating city

Urban 'what-ifs' – Kenzō Tange​'s fantastical architecture

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Canned designs: Two sides of Glasgow

Designs for future cities that didn't pan out: revisiting Robert Bruce's drastic vision for 1940s Glasgow

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What cities of the future can learn from brutalism

Comment: The architecture movement has a bad name but it offers an urban ethos that is exciting, creative and inclusive

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Canned designs: Manhattan's doomed domed city

Urban 'what ifs' – the mid-century plans for Buckminster Fuller's domes