The crossroads of ancient cultures, it has a storied past, with Aztec ruins embedded in the modern city’s fabric. The key northern seat of the Spanish conquest, it has a cultural and historical ...

But the stories it helps to tell and the history it brings to life make it something far more than just a walk through a modern, buzzing city. In fact, for such a small area, there is just so much ...

City-states have played an important role in history, with well-known examples such as ancient Athens, Rome, and the modern-day city-state of Singapore. But in today’s world, city-states are ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. "O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and ...

"The rise of the Modern city is inseparable from its representation in visual culture, and the most common format for the global circulation of urban images was the postcard. With the development of ...

The Caribbean town of Plymouth lies frozen in the ash of a devastating volcano. In the 1990s, an entire city in the Caribbean vanished under ash. Plymouth, Montserrat, once vibrant, now lies ...

The project's website describes the city as "a symbol of modern lifestyle, where the sustainable values of an ecological city converge. Here, residents can not only enjoy a fresh and green living ...

The ancient site is largely deserted now, as is the nearby modern city, also named Palmyra. Residents are hoping for a return of tourists now that the country has reopened to international ...

However, the radical modern spatial transformation of Ankara took place after the establishment of the new Republican state and its proclamation as the ‘capital city’. On October 13, 1923, Ankara was ...