Cities
Those Leaning Houses in Amsterdam Are Mostly Leaning on Purpose
A lot of canal houses tip forward a few centimeters. The builders planned it. The sideways lean is a different story.
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The Books Left Timbuktu in Trunks, at Night
In 2012, librarians moved hundreds of thousands of old manuscripts out of a city that was about to be taken.
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The Park in Oslo Where Every Statue Is a Person
Gustav Vigeland made more than two hundred sculptures for one park, and the city got all of them.
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Raised From the Mud After 333 Years
The Vasa was the grandest warship in Sweden. It sailed for less than a mile.
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Comuna 13 Escalators: How Medellín Turned a 28-Story Climb Into a Six-Minute Ride
For decades, getting home in Medellín's Comuna 13 meant climbing the equivalent of a 28-story building. Then the city did something radical — it…
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Yaoundé: The City That Climbs
On seven green hills in the heart of Central Africa sits a capital that refuses to lie flat. Yaoundé is a city of altitude and contradiction…
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Why Bandung Earned the Title "Paris of Java"
Discover why Bandung is known as the "Paris of Java" and how geography, history, and culture shaped one of Indonesia's most fascinating cities.
