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Its biennial arts festival this week will celebrate a decade of being the UK’s first and only Unesco-designated ‘design city’
The city of Dundee, about 60 miles north of Edinburgh on Scotland’s east coast, was once best known for its industry: whaling and shipbuilding in the 19th century, then its celebrated “three Js” – jute, jam and journalism.
But in recent years, Dundee has developed another reputation: as an arts and culture hub, and the UK’s first and only Unesco-designated “design city”.
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