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Bike City Copenhagen : This Is The Ultimate Bicycle Friendly City
Welcome to Copenhagen, although if you’re a fan of two-wheeled transportation, you’ll probably come to know it as…
2015-08-31
19th-Century Arches Could Be Key To Pedestrian Safety
Matthew Falber led walking tours of Central Park for years before the idea struck. After a spate of…
2015-07-29
Half A Millenia From The Dungeon To The Top
The main attraction is at the top, but the journey there is spectacular in its own right. One…
2015-07-10
How Ancient Mayan City Built On A Grid Pattern
An ancient Mayan city followed a unique grid pattern, providing evidence of a powerful ruler, archaeologists working at…
2015-07-06
Sacred Architecture To Take Your Breath Away
Before our modern definitions of civilizations, a place and its people evolves from a being a simple village…
2015-06-16
The Mind Of The City For The Future Of The City
Imagine, says Alberto Hernando de Castro, you are moving to a city. Maybe it’s New York, where hundreds…
2015-06-04
What Is The Oldest City In The World?
Mark Twain declared that the Indian city of Varanasi was ‘older than history, older than tradition, older even…
2015-06-02
The Most Fascinating City Squares In Italy
If you visit Italy you won’t be surprised to realize the wonder you will find in taking a…
2015-06-01
Births And Rebirths Of Cities
I’m writing this from Belgrade – a city that, [13+] years ago, was the target of a NATO bombing…
2015-05-04
Adventures Through The World’s Lost Cities
Tourists relish the history, mystery and spiritual draw. Gazing at the Andean peaks soaring above the Lost City…
2015-05-04
Jerusalem : The City Of God
Jerusalem, considered to be one of the holiest places on Earth. Christianity, Islam and Judaism all regard Jerusalem…
2015-04-03
Cities Built Over Time. Ruined In A Moment.
Within days of Islamic State (IS) releasing a video showing their destruction of sculptures in the Mosul museum…
2015-03-20
A Sublime Pint Of Guinness, Crowned With History And Passion
This may be the ultimate landmark in Dublin, Ireland. The Guinness Storehouse or brewery is a destination more than…
2015-03-17
Belfast, Aspiring To Normal
How does a city move on from war? There is an everyday quality to the reminders of conflict…
2015-03-16
Blood On The Streets : The Violent History Of Public Squares
There may have been earlier public squares, yet the ancient Greeks with their agora, or central meeting place…
2015-03-13
Ancient City Ruins Warn Us About Our Urban Future
The ruins of Tikal are surrounded by a national park — 57,600 hectares of rainforest and wetlands. In…
2015-02-24
Jared Diamond: Why Do Societies Collapse?
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day…
2015-02-18
Cities Might Influence Not Just Our Civilizations, But Our Evolution
Cities reverberate through history as centres of civilisation. Ur. Babylon. Rome. Baghdad. Tenochtitlan. Beijing. Paris. London. New York.…
2015-02-16
How The Ancient Underground City Of Cappadocia Became A Fruit Warehouse
For centuries, people have lived in caves and tunnels under this region of Turkey. Now the subterranean city…
2015-02-11
What The Collapse Of Ancient Capitals Can Teach Us About The Cities Of Today
Warnings from history: Angkor was a thriving metropolis of 750,000 before a series of mega-monsoons made it unliveable.…
2015-02-07
London’s Near-2000 Year History Mapped
Researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis collated vast datasets to map the capital’s transformation from first-century…
2015-02-05
City Maps Through The Ages
From London’s cholera outbreak to the siege of Frankfurt, these are the works of the earliest data gurus, who…
2015-01-29
What Makes a City a City?
In the dizzying world of tech cities, garden cities and smart cities, perhaps it’s time to redefine what…
2015-01-28