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Name: Cynthia, her husband Graham, their three children Ben, Ruby Mae and Theo, and black lab George Location: Keene, Ontario, Canada The basics: 7 years, owned — 2,400 square feet Cynthia and her family can escape to their historic farmhouse slash flower farm for a quick weekend getaway . Having preserved and updated many a historic property , Cynthia and her husband turned their eyes towards this house and its large parcel of land. Keeping things simple and chic, the home blends old and new to great effect. Tell us a little (or a lot) about your home and the people who live there: Graham and my story started as an office romance more than twenty years ago - a marriage, three children, numerous pets, successful marketing careers , and many houses later, we are still excited to work together every day. We share a passion for growing flowers and renovating character homes . Together we have saved some remarkable spaces including a Victorian row house , a Tudor cottage, a turn-of...

RIO DE JANEIRO ― Seven years ago, Vila Autódromo was little more than a tranquil fishing village on the edge of Jacarepagua Lagoon, next to the racetrack for which it was named. Like the hundreds of other favelas that dot Rio de Janeiro ’s landscape, it had long been neglected by the city government , and it lacked many basic public services that are standard in the fast- growing wealthier neighborhoods just across the water. But to the more than 600 families that lived there, it was home. “This was a paradise,” said Luiz Cláudio Silva, who lived in Autódromo for more than 20 years. “I thought that I would live here for the rest of my life.” By the time the Rio Olympics are over, just 20 of the families who lived in Autódromo in 2009, the year the International Olympic Committee chose the city to host the games, will remain. The community, which sits less than a mile away from Rio’s Olympic Park, was crushed so that the city could build new access roads to connect Olympic venues . ...

Chicago , 2211. The towers are taller. The apartments are smaller. The El has become the tube. Pho is the breakfast of choice. Communication happens mainly through screens, albeit floating holographic screens . Five teen-agers have been assigned to the City Planning Council for a year of public service . Their first assignment is to decide on the future of the Uptown Theatre, a white terra- cotta movie palace that seats four thousand and, in 2211 as in 2017, needs to be adapted into something new. ( Regina Spektor filmed her “Black and White” video there.) After a tense meeting, three of them decide to go to see the theatre, and the Uptown neighborhood, for themselves. “We really want a space to facemeet, instead of screening all the time,” one teen says. “I was wrong to think I could make a planning council decision from up in my apartment,” another says. Will Uptown get the server farm/performance venue it wants, or just more condos? Such is the cliffhanger ending of “No Small Pl...

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