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Adept at both neoclassical flair and drab concrete, architect Josef Kaiser defined the surprising Cold War style of East Germany's architecture. Read more: bloom.bg/4zS2Zis 📷: Schnepp Renou
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“We have been fighting against the environment,” says the vice mayor of Novo Progresso, an Amazon town that overwhelmingly supports conservative presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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A project in Chicago that seeks to obscure George Washington is one of hundreds of efforts to rethink which historical figures get memorialized. Read more: bloom.bg/4yXiS70 📷: Jon Song Photography
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Prague preserved its historic core while other European capitals rebuilt. Now billionaire-backed projects are transforming old rail yards and industrial land into entirely new neighborhoods. Read more: bloom.bg/4yZVS7q 📷: Martin Divisek/EPA/Shutterstock
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Affordable housing advocates want to rewrite Massachusetts’s minimum lot size rules, which often mandate big lots for new single-family homes. Foes see a loss of local control. Read more: bloom.bg/4yrKRKU 📷: Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
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A new book on demolished buildings highlights Japan’s propensity to scrap and rebuild rather than renovate. Will the next generation fight harder for preservation? Read more: bloom.bg/3Ucp2RJ 📷: Paulo Fridman/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
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The finest modernist architecture in Texas can be found with the corn dogs and midway games at the Texas State Fair. Read more: bloom.bg/4hPAxaM 📷: Donovan Reese/Getty Images
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Boston, Cleveland and New York City are combining housing complexes with public library branches in a bid to add affordable units and boost community services. Read more: bloom.bg/4zE9sNH 📷: Jonathan Blanc/New York Public Library
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After a century of fighting over them, US cities like New York largely abandoned their public bathrooms. That's starting to change. Read about the new book chronicling the troubled history of restroom access and how these spaces have always reflected and reinforced social inequality: bloom.bg/47sIAV4 📷: Bill Tompkins/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images
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