Tag: cities
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Tourists stay in short-term rentals and foreigners buy second homes, while residents of the city rent rooms, not apartments, says researcher Agustín Cocola-Gant https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/lisbon-europe-portugal-golden-visa-capital-investors-short-term-rentals more ›
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Inside INS, a seven-floor commercial complex overlooking Shanghai’s century-old Fuxing Park that houses twelve nightclubs along with restaurants, esports arenas, and a comedy club, Alvin Leung, a 30-year-old Canadian visiting… more ›
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Terraforming Singapore Is the future made of sand? https://kontinentalist.com/stories/wisdom-of-vernacular-architecture-asia more ›
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Singaporean Sharon Ong’s toddler son, like most kids his age, is fascinated by all modes of transportation. On a recent visit to the resort island of Sentosa, mother and son… more ›
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Zhu Hao, an office worker in his early 20s, recently checked into a hotel in China’s southern city of Shenzhen for a weekend escape with a couple of buddies. Their… more ›
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Invader (b. 1969), Alias VRS_08, 2017-19. Ceramic tiles on Perspex. Incised with the artist’s monogram, title and date ‘VRS_08 19’ (on the reverse). 13¼ x 19⅝ in (33.5 x 49.8… more ›
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Ten p.m. arrives in Cairo’s Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood with the same dogged tenacity as it does anywhere else, but down the fluorescent shopping streets and in the sidewalk cafes, few… more ›
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City economies are booming, but the risk of a commercial-real-estate crash remains as real as ever. “It’s another truly amazing gold rush!” Marc Benioff posted on X in September 2023.… more ›
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Parks, roofs and riverbanks mimicking the long-used agricultural form are helping cities absorb, hold and purify rainwater. One of Kotchakorn Voraakhom’s most memorable moments growing up in Bangkok in the… more ›