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In London, in the 18th Century, a person of means might have made his or her way across town in a sedan chair, an enclosed little cabin on horizontal poles…
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~City Quotient
The ways in which cities come by their names are probably as complex as the way in which people are named. As we are often named after a relative, an…
In his Song of the Broad-Axe Walt Whitman declared: “A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. If it has a few ragged huts it is…
It is perhaps debatable whether music written for (or inspired by) a city owes what endurance it receives from its compositional elements, or from the subject of its lyrics. “New…
A Russian joke revolved around the story of a man was born in St. Petersburg, got married in Petrograd, and died in Leningrad. Since the demise of the USSR they…
If there is a single, overriding feature of urbanism that gives each city its distinction (or the lack thereof) it is the street. Depending upon the time, circumstance, and culture,…
When the credits roll at the end of many films these days the omission is so universal that it is as completely unremarkable and inconspicuous. One of the central characters…
When Stalingrad was returned to its original name of Volgagrad nasty Joe Stalin must have been spinning in his grave (in which he was placed by Kruschev who ejected him…
The earliest relationships of urbanization with a feature of the natural environment may well be that between cities and rivers. In the decline of the last Ice Age, some twelve…
In 1963, When John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin and announced from the steps of the city hall: “ Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner), he won the…
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