Thousands of sandcastles appear on Helsinki beach as part of massive public art project ~arts art.public Link 2 votes
Suburb in the sky: How Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall ~life housing Article 877 words 9 votes
How a new logo saved the city of Oslo $5 million a year ~design typography Article 546 words, published Jun 28 2019 8 votes
Alchemist, a restaurant serving a fifty-course menu, has opened in Copenhagen ~food restaurants Article 278 words 5 votes
Helsinki sustainability celebrated as Finland takes over EU presidency ~enviro sustainability Link 4 votes
Danish capital is spirited and busy but there are nooks of tranquillity, says urban sketcher João Albergaria ~arts Article 360 words, published Jul 5 2019 4 votes
Kabul blast: Massive bomb kills at least ten in Afghan capital ~news afghanistan.kabul Article 666 words 8 votes
Istanbul mayoral re-run: Turkey's ruling AKP set to lose in blow for Erdoğan ~news politics turkey.istanbul Article 122 words 27 votes
Overtourism in Amsterdam's red-light district provokes local outrage ~news netherlands.amsterdam Article 1205 words 7 votes
When street food builds one community, and rankles another: Berlin’s Thaipark has long represented the best of what informal food markets have to offer. So why does the city think it’s a problem? ~food Article 4 votes
'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness ~life housing Article 1553 words 23 votes
Paris will create the city's largest gardens around the Eiffel Tower ~design urban planning Article 9 votes
Seven-mile ‘bee corridor’ of wildflowers will feed London’s pollinators this summer ~enviro Article 442 words 8 votes
Indonesia plans to move its capital out of Jakarta, a city that's sinking ~design urban planning Article 594 words 9 votes
From 2003 to 2007 a 24 year old Iraqi woman in Baghdad kept an online diary. In chronicling life under occupation the blogger "Riverbend" gave a perspective largely missing from English media. ~life Link 15 votes
Can post-revolution Yerevan get to grips with its informal architecture epidemic? ~design urban planning architecture Link 10 votes
Ex-Jakarta Governor Ahok, jailed for blasphemy, freed ~news indonesia.jakarta politics crime Article 750 words 3 votes
Taking back Taksim: Everyday life vs. top-down redevelopment ~design architecture urban planning Article 1853 words 6 votes
Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people ~tech Article 647 words, published Nov 29 2018 10 votes
The Trump Organization planned to give Vladimir Putin the $50 million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow ~news usa russia.moscow Article 1128 words 20 votes
Postponed Copa Libertadores final to be played at Bernabéu in Madrid ~sports.football Article 323 words 7 votes
30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis ~life housing Article 4245 words 19 votes
Lion Air plane carrying at least 189 people crashes after taking off from Jakarta ~transport Article 1135 words 12 votes
United Nations cautions against unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital ~society politics Article 825 words 13 votes
A history of Johannesburg in ten dishes. The dishes that explain the history of South Africa’s Gold Rush City. ~food history Article 2280 words 7 votes
Litigation gone digital: Ottawa experiments with artificial intelligence in tax cases ~finance Article 839 words 4 votes
Hungama: The club celebrating London's LGBT South Asians ~lgbt Article 817 words, published Jul 28 2018 5 votes
Neo-Nazis rally alongside counter-demonstrators in Stockholm ~news sweden.stockholm politics Link 7 votes
In the Cape Town enclave that survived apartheid, the new enemy is gentrification ~life Article 1137 words 4 votes
Nope, those aren't mailboxes: Paris rolls out sidewalk urinals ~news france.paris Article 389 words 17 votes
The eel trader reviving an old Amsterdam tradition ~food history Article 336 words, published Jun 6 2018 4 votes
Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital ~science archaeology Article 2486 words, published Jun 20 2018 7 votes