SEEING THE CITY: 2025

I live in Redwood City, a suburb roughly 30 minutes by car from San Francisco. Like many other residents of the Bay Area’s suburban...

Walking down the streets to Ginza, I stumbled upon a little temple on the side of the road. This isn’t my usual path, but I felt a...

Since coming to Cornell, I've come to realize how much living in Brooklyn has shaped me. I can't stop myself from walking twice as fast...

By: John Raimonda Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Commonly dubbed the Forgotten Borough, Staten Island is...

Menlo Park is a peaceful, walkable suburb about an hour south of San Francisco that borders Stanford. I have lived there my whole life,...

Everywhere I see greatness. Everywhere I see muscular structures piercing the sky, underground monsters zigzagging, roaring, people...

I come from a farming family. All I have ever known is agriculture. Both of my parents are fourth-generation farmers. I was raised to...

Did you know you can miss a place as much as you miss a person? Occasionally, on a quiet day in Ithaca or New Jersey, my heart is...

Most people see Morocco as being a boring desert nation with one big city named after the movie "Casablanca." And even from the most...

I had been living in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China for the past eighteen years. However, the two only Nanjing districts that I am familiar with...

As a child, the one thing I associated with the trips I had to Mumbai was the battle I had with the squat toilet in my grandparents’...

I was born in what is known as the city that "Never Sleeps”. To tourists it is a wonderful place with many locations to socialize, eat...

It’s 1:55pm on a September weekday. As I exit my suburban high school, I feel the familiar hot sun and humidity of Florida’s west coast....

I grew up taking the A train to 175th Street in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Manhattan. Later on, it was the 1 train to 231st...

On Twitter, I often see a statistic that says a majority of Americans want to live in a walkable neighborhood but only 8% actually do. I...

Growing up in Manhattan, New York City did not feel like growing up. If you asked me what age I started walking to school alone, or what...

I was born in New York City but by no means do I consider myself a city kid, if anything I would call myself a 9/11 baby. My family was...

The lens by which I perceive the city has been cultivated by a duality, the pastoral, and the industrial built space. It was within the...

Envision a bustling metropolis combining the best of both (literal) worlds: a cultural melting pot of the East and West with a cityscape...

Growing up in a small village in Westchester, New York, I’ve grown to see New York City through a very privileged lens, as well as that...