The fall of Prague: ‘Drunk tourists are acting like they’ve conquered our city’ ~travel Article 1404 words 15 votes
Sweden scraps Stockholm Fashion Week due to environmental concerns ~design fashion Article 541 words, published Jul 3 2019 6 votes
Helsinki has revealed a first-of-its kind website meant to empower citizens, businesses and tourists to make more sustainable choices ~enviro sustainability Link 3 votes
Wonderful Copenhagen was set up to bring more tourists to the Danish capital – now it's under fire for doing too little to stop them coming ~travel Article 372 words 5 votes
What happened to Christiania's dream of becoming Denmark's hippie paradise? ~life Article 1866 words 9 votes
Want safe, bikeable streets? Get rid of free parking, as Amsterdam did ~design urban planning Article 916 words 14 votes
Thousands of sandcastles appear on Helsinki beach as part of massive public art project ~arts art.public art.ephemeral 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
Two million in Zimbabwe’s capital have no water as city turns off taps ~enviro water.drinking Article 1170 words 7 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
Overtourism in Amsterdam's red-light district provokes local outrage ~travel 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
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
When Gabriel García Márquez wanted to be a foreign correspondent in Madrid ~books Article 871 words, published Apr 26 2019 4 votes
Indonesia plans to move its capital out of Jakarta, a city that's sinking ~design urban planning Article 594 words 9 votes
YouTube face-off: Berlin police break up mass brawl ~news germany.berlin crime Article 241 words 5 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
Driver ploughs through crowds on Tokyo's Takeshita street, injuring nine ~news japan.tokyo crime Article 383 words 4 votes
'Titanic of the skies': The story of London's ill-fated luxury airship service to Melbourne ~transport Article 1815 words 7 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
Lion Air plane carrying at least 189 people crashes after taking off from Jakarta ~transport Article 1135 words 12 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