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Baltimore through Biracial Eyes
At first glance, it’s just another small city. Just another place with a downtown and suburbs, highways and side streets, greenery and...
Zara Cheek
Mar 33 min read
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Stories From the Subway: Exploring the Human Condition, One Stop at a Time
Last night, instead of working on my long list of readings and assignments like I’d planned, I found myself reminiscing about a time that...
Tiffany Hermawan
Feb 204 min read
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Seeing the City (Brooklyn, NY)
My neighborhood, Crown Heights, Brooklyn was once the scene of four days of riots between Black and Jewish residents in 1991 that...
Noah Louis
Feb 173 min read
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Urban Inequality in New York from a Seven-Year-Old's Perspective
The image above this text displays two very different sides of New York City. On the right is the wealthy and iconic Upper East Side....
Daniel Smith
Feb 144 min read
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A Lost Home
A dry hush lays over Court Street. Cars go up and down through the city's center, but it seems as if everything is stagnant, stuck in...
ajg358
Feb 143 min read
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Witnessing the Changes and Constants of Jinan
As someone born and raised in Jinan, this city is no longer just an initial amazement to me—it has become a deep-seated familiarity and...
Haotian He
Feb 142 min read
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Portrait of Los Angeles: United in Crisis
I’d never been more compelled to reflect on the city I’m from than when suddenly confronted with the thought of its destruction. Los...
mnc478
Feb 143 min read
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Wukang Road: A Conversation With The Past
Even though I live in the suburban area of Shanghai, I can never resist a late morning brunch on Wukang Rd on a Sunday morning. Sitting...
ky4334
Feb 143 min read
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Charm City, But Not Always Charming
I've always found Baltimore to be a city of contradictions—charming, yes, but with a rawness that can't be ignored. It's the kind of...
Bowen Valery
Feb 143 min read
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Seoul, Soul
When I moved back after 13 years, Seoul did not feel like home. The city almost seemed cold and soulless. The way people talked, acted,...
hk9521
Feb 143 min read
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Singapore: Urban Utopia?
This past summer of 2024 I had the good fortune of visiting Singapore, a city-state that challenged my notions of what is possible in a...
Martinez, Angel
Feb 143 min read
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Seeing Kowloon: A City of Contrasts
When I first arrived in Hong Kong at the age of six, Kowloon seemed like a completely different world. The constant noise, the crowds,...
Diwen Zhang
Feb 143 min read
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Hartford, CT: A Lost Gem
Downtown Hartford Before and After Highway Construction `Despite only growing up about a 30-minute drive away from Hartford, I only...
Alex Miloszewski
Feb 143 min read
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My Montreal: A City of Contrasts
Montreal has always fascinated me. My connection to the city comes from my father who was born and raised there before moving to New York...
Gavin Bloomberg
Feb 143 min read
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Baltimore: A Patchwork of Diverse Neighborhoods
My relationship with Baltimore first started in the car in 2020. Before that, the city was a foreign place to me. It was a concrete...
Cecily Lowther
Feb 143 min read
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Lost and Found in the Heart of New York: A Journey Through the City's Soul
The famous skyline, Times Square's neon lights, the city's unrelenting vitality, and the countless food and cultural options are all...
djc475
Feb 143 min read
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Paper Dragons, Pickleball, and Technological Progress
From sunlight streaming through drooping, wind-blown branches of the hundred-year-old willow in our neighborhood park to neon lettering...
Cindy Ku
Feb 144 min read
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Rediscovering Chicago
When people ask me where I’m from, I make it a point to emphasize that I do not live in Chicago, but 25 minutes north of it. I was born...
Hannah Obel
Feb 143 min read
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Silence and mindless cooing of pigeons
It’s hard to think of a good reason one would be a tourist in Novovolynsk. This remote town in the West of Ukraine can be new only to...
ar2529
Feb 143 min read
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Navigating New York City : How the Subway Shaped My Independence
At the age of 12, I began to take the train which would shape my relationship with the city in ways I never expected. My mother could no...
ajb524
Feb 143 min read
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"Every vision of what life is constructs a world."
Arturo Escobar
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