SEEING THE CITY: 2025

Every weekend, my dad would take me and my two younger brothers to ride our scooters a few blocks away to the local park in which he’d...

I always think about the fact that when people ask me where I am from, I say Boston, but really, I’m from Cambridge. I have uniquely...

Whenever I am asked to describe what Toronto feels like, I always respond as follows: it’s a big city without the big city feel. Toronto...

“Stay calm,” I told myself. I stood frozen with my three friends in the middle of the sidewalk. It was like any other regular day after...

Just thirty minutes north of the bustling of Atlanta sits the quaint suburb of Marietta. Everything here is within driving distance—I...

A painting of the journey to Uptown New Orleans. (Terrance Osborn) I remember moving to New Orleans, Louisiana [NOLA] at six. My family...

As a child, New York City was the place my parents would take me for pure pleasure and excitement. From Broadway to baseball games, New...

Ironically, as a person who has not tried a single cigarette, my hometown shapes like a tobacco pipe. Taichung City, Taiwan, raised me...

I love walking. I also grew up in New York City. In order to love New York you gotta love walking. The first time I ever got freedom was...

It’s not a city. It’s not even a town. But the tiny hamlet of Verplanck seemed massive to me as a kid growing up in Westchester County,...

Growing up in a suburban town two miles away from Newark, I’ve had my fair share of time in “The Brick City”. Newark is referred to as...

^ View of Portland from Pittock Mansion, Facing East Growing up in Portland, I don’t feel like I really started to develop a sense of...

Cities are the hearts of society, pumping energy and resources into our consumptive lifestyles. Although I have never directly lived in a...

What is the greatest city in the world?! If you didn’t scream Atlanta at the screen, you must have not visited. Growing up in the suburbs...

My hometown Changzhou, a not very distant satellite city of Shanghai, was trying hard to study and copy Shanghai’s successful example but...

Throughout Baltimore city, you will see benches coining the city as “The Greatest City in America.” These benches came about from former...

Born and raised in Goma, I was able to experience a city where everything seems close. It is easy to get groceries within a 10 minutes...

The Lion's Pavilion, upon reaching The Peak. Hong Kong has long been known for defining rush hour, high density living in Asia. From a...

Jamaica isn't just beaches, sunshine, and Bob Marleys -- it is a former colonial state struggling to maintain itself. Here's why.

While I did not grow up in Taipei, Taiwan, I visited the city for extended periods of time during summer breaks to visit extended family....