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Plato calculated the ideal population of a city to be around 5000—the maximum number that could hear a political official at a public assembly in the agora of Athens. In addition to…
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Urban and social historian Lewis Mumford offered in The City in History that the early “permanent settlements” that were the precursors of cities were themselves built around burial places and…
Cities have never been the favored offspring of Mother Nature. Let’s face it, one doesn’t even have to be a tree-hugging eco-warrior to admit that cities have been tough on…
In a person the acquisition of a nickname can come about as a result of a personality characteristic (John “Duke” Wayne), stature (Napoleon “The Little Corporal” Bonaparte), a prominent feature…
Plato calculated the ideal population of a city to be around 5000—the maximum number that could hear a political official at a public assembly in the agora of Athens. In…
Cities come by their names from a variety of sources, the most common probably being named after a founder or favorite son or daughter, a geographic or geological feature, a…
Henry Miller once declared: “One needs no artificial stimulation in Paris, to write, the atmosphere is charged with creation.” This opinion may extend to many different writers about many different…
The city we know today as Budapest, was once the cities of Buda and Pest. However, most cities that grow together and share the same water sources, air, and often.…
Urban and social historian Lewis Mumford offered in The City in History that the early “permanent settlements” that were the precursors of cities were themselves built around burial places and…
To a German the city of Venice is Vendig; to a Frenchman it’s Venise; to an American, it is, of course, Venice. None of these spellings and pronunciations is, however,…