Feargus O'Sullivan
Feargus O’Sullivan is a London-born writer and journalist. He lives in London and Berlin.
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When Travel Writing Goes Wrong: London's 'City of Villages,' in Formal Wear
Even British writing on London isn't exactly a cliché-free zone.
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A Berlin Neighborhood Clamps Down on Fancy Apartments
No second bathrooms, no fireplaces or under-floor heating, no new balconies and no reserved parking places.
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When Travel Writing Goes Wrong: 'Edgy' Berlin Edition
4 clichés every travelogue about Germany's capital apparently must include.
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What Makes London Such a Ghostly City
In England, Christmas Eve is the time to tell ghost stories. A reflection on some of the city's spookiest nooks and crannies.
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London's 'Make-Do-and-Mend' Transit Revolution
The city is redrawing its transit map without an expensive overhaul. Instead, it stitched together old, underexploited track.
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Why Are Londoners Building Slums in Their Backyards?
Quasi-legal buildings are popping up for rent all over the city, and officials are doing little to regulate these Dickensian dwellings.
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Athens Is Still Athens
The portrait of the city as a burnt-out hellscape has little basis in reality.
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How Spanish Urbanism Lost its Leading Edge
The country has long been a model for flashy, absurd infrastructure, but austerity is finally slowing it down.
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The Big Fix
Berlin's Invisible Gentrifiers
The city's properties are being sucked up by out-of-towners who visit only a few weeks a year, turning neighborhoods into ghost towns.
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Why I Moved Back to the Suburbs
Increasingly, I find fashionable inner city neighborhoods as banal as any suburb, just more expensive.
