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Thinking Allowed
Laurie Taylor in New York

Thinking Allowed

The Open University teams up with BBC Radio 4's long-running weekly consideration of the social sciences.

Imagination and place

Will Self

Writers and scientists join Laurie Taylor to talk about how imagination shapes and reflects the places we live in.

City slivers

Will Self and Laurie Taylor on stage

Laurie, guests and an audience gather in London to debate imagination and the city.

Heartland transfers

Building work

Why do the rougher centres of cities find themselves suddenly areas of gentrification?

 

Neighbourhood watch

Welcome to Harlem mural

Investment and the cappucino-quaffing elite are just the latest challenge faced in the history of Harlem.

Deeper thinking

Bus stop - the start of a journey

Has your cerebellum been stimulated by Thinking Allowed? Find out ways of taking it further.

 

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BBC Radio 4

Listen again - and explore more deeply - with Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4.

Join the debate

Talking

'Is gentrification the answer for the inner cities?' - join the debate.

 
 

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