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48 FINDING MAGIC IN THE CITY Jini Reddy balances the desire to explore with the need to feel safe 50 NEWS 51 HOLDING ON TO HOPE A letter from Jackie Morris features in a pilgrimage to Glasgow 52 TIME TO REBUILD Cities should not be a block to sustainable living, writes Satish Kumar

REVIEWS

56 REIMAGINING WHAT’S POSSIBLE

Russell Warfield reviews Seven Ways to Change the World: How to Fix the Most Pressing Problems We Face by Gordon Brown and Go Big: How To Fix Our World by Ed Miliband 58 STORIES BY THE FIRE Martha Dillon reviews the podcast

Smoke Hole Sessions by Martin Shaw 59 MAPPING THE FUTURE Danny Dorling reviews The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis by Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros 60 BEGINNING, MIDDLE – AND END? Adam Weymouth reviews Our Biggest

Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell 61 THE POWER OF SCIENCE

Stuart Hobday reviews The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M. Krauss

62 BIRD’S-EYE VIEW Edward Mayer reviews The Bird-friendly

City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats by Timothy Beatley 63 SUSTAINABILITY – MEDIEVAL-

STYLE Tim Gorringe reviews Wir konnten auch anders: Eine kurze Geschichte der Nachhaltigkeit (‘We Could Do Things Differently: A Brief History of Sustainability’) by Annette Kehnel 64 COMMUNITY 66 SHOP 68 LETTERS 70 EVENTS 71 ADVERTISEMENTS

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