Kumasi:Finding Joy in Adversity
Kumasi is the beating center of Ghana's Ashanti region. Kumasi has become famous for its cultural diversity and commercial hub. Each...
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Emma Benyaminy
Feb 22, 20233 min read
An Inside Look Into the "Sole" of Italy
To celebrate my grandparent's 45th anniversary, my family traveled to Italy. My grandparents wanted to return to their homeland to visit...
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Athena Deng
Feb 22, 20234 min read
Master Planned? Or not.
Palm trees Spectrum Center, Irvine, CA It is crazy how every time I mention this word, there is an instant connection pointing to...
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Andy Shijia Li
Feb 22, 20234 min read
Doha: My Second Home and Endless Fascination
As I drove along the highway on the outskirts of Doha, I noticed a huge billboard with a simple English message that stood out among the...
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Michaela Tsapatsaris
Feb 22, 20232 min read
The Middle Finger of Greece
You want your Mamma Mia summer. It’s more convenient to stay on the mainland, so you take a commercial cruise along the southern coast....
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Hannah Waldinger
Feb 22, 20233 min read
New York City: The Optimal Host for a Suburban Parasite
Just like the rest of Westchester County dwellers, I have the tendency to frame my hometown by its distance from New York City. When I...
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Jade Nichols
Feb 22, 20233 min read
Sarajevo: A City of Resilience
With both a mother and a grandmother from former Yugoslavia, the latter of which lives in Sarajevo, I have visited the city practically...
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ecf44
Feb 22, 20233 min read
The Vibrancy of New York City
Socony-Mobil Building, East Midtown, Harrison & Abramovitz, 1956 Courtesy Ken Grant Growing up in a small suburb only twenty minutes away...
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jjm454
Feb 22, 20233 min read
Land of Milk and Honey (Ensiy’ amate n’obwoki)
Mbarara is my hometown. I was born and raised in Mbarara until the age of 15 years. It is the second largest city in Uganda, after...
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Taryn Chung
Feb 21, 20234 min read
Die Stadt: Freiburg im Breisgau
After a multi-hour delayed takeoff from New York City to London, sprinting with minutes to spare to the transfer bus in London that would...
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sas592
Feb 21, 20234 min read
Behind the Curtains of Music City: Changing Urban Ecology in Nashville, TN
Photo of Cumberland Park, near Broadway, taken by me in April 2018. This photo features the “Batman Building”: an AT&T office building...
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Enoch Parmar
Feb 20, 20233 min read
Basically Brooklyn, Basically New Jersey
You can see the bridge from my house, towering over the rest of the townhouses. I like to say that I’m technically from both Brooklyn and...
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Spencer Thieme
Feb 20, 20233 min read
Temporary visitors. Permanent change.
Seattle. For most people - it's a temporary city. You graduate with a degree in business, CS, or engineering and come to the PNW with a...
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Grace Hughes
Feb 20, 20233 min read
The Roads Taken
Driving up the 101 Highway, I feel comforted by the familiar salty smell in the air, the bright blue sky and sea, and the heat of the...
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jyf820
Feb 19, 20233 min read
Missing Home
Last weekend, having caught the flu, I suddenly felt homesick. It was the first time I had truly felt homesick since leaving for college....
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Nolan Fuller
Feb 19, 20233 min read
Poughkeepsie: Gateway or Symbol of Metropolitan Inequality?
As a resident of rural Ulster Park, NY, the New York City metropolis is both strikingly distant and strangely close. I live on a dead-end...
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cwb225
Feb 19, 20232 min read
A Life in the 727
I came from a city in Florida announced as St. Petersburg, which is also known by "The Burg" or "727"(Area code). My city isn’t too...
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jr2357
Feb 19, 20233 min read
The Genius of Los Angeles
Eldred Street, Highland Park; From California by Choice Los Angeles is an unconventional city. If Europe produced cities as hulking...
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Samantha Johnstone
Feb 19, 20232 min read
Burlingame, California
15 minutes south of San Francisco lies my home, where I have lived for the past 18 years of my life. It’s a suburb full of warm summer...
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nd356
Feb 17, 20233 min read
Jiaxing: a traditional city facing new economical challenges
In the past five years, I studied in Shanghai, California, and now Ithaca, but I spent my first 16 years in Jiaxing, where I would call...
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