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...sources. Changes that started with the Industrial Revolution and the rise in urban populations have created what we can now call fossil fuel cities; firstly from coal, and then from gas and oil. In architectural terms, the presence of coal is visible through chimneys, and the fireplaces inside. The way we build expresses our relationship with energy: this now needs to be...

...opening days of the 2016 New Year saw the passing of perhaps the greatest musical figure of the late twentieth century. No, not David Bowie. Or at least, not just David Bowie. That sentence could be written, with equal truth, of the French experimental composer Pierre Boulez, who died aged 90 on 6 January. Bowie’s death just four days later creates a weird and...