Street DogsWhat are those large, scaly, green anim...  ...mizable and personalizable gift for your favorite city folk, urban dweller, or country cousin with a sen...

When you have a lot of room, why don't people just spread out over the countryside? Owning, or at least being surrounded by land, would seem to make sense in a civilization that relies on agriculture. Yet cities keep gro...

We've posted before about how modern cities are de...  ...ripping out highways to reduce traffic and bring city life back to people. That doesn't mean those area...  ...projects not only tore out a dirty highway from a city center, it actually daylighted a lost waterway. A...  ...-lying area which had become a s...

Street, road, avenue, way, esplanade, boulevard, d...  ...owing the difference can help you make sense of a city and how it was planned. [https://youtu.be/yqmso0...

Cities are all cities, but they differ greatly in everything else. You know European cities are older, but you probably don’t know how much that affects everything else about them. One big difference is how densely...

A building goes up here, a building comes down the...  ...ith skyscrapers growing upward to accommodate the city ’s 14 million residents.See a roundup of the...

The talk pages on Wikipedia are often mundane, but...  ...andall Munroe of xkcd noticed that discussions on city entries are particularly funny, as they involve s...

Let's look at some cities that take environmentali...  ...cent of Copenhageners bike to work or school. The city is already filled with parks, but plans are in th...  ...tance of a park or beach. About 20 percent of the city ’s electric power comes from wind turbines,...  ...ut the goal is to stop using co...

[https://youtu.be/dCb6n04iqNU] (YouTube link)Sit b...  ...the capital of Iceland, it’s included as a city .

Gedi is an abandoned city in Kenya that had a stone palace, several stone h...  ...ve been found there, indicating global trade. The city had a population as high as 3,000 people at its h...