SEEING THE CITY: 2025

For all of my life, north Jersey has been my home, specifically Union City. It’s the same place where I took my first steps, learned how...

Known as the city of love, Paris is a city that captured my heart forever. The city is cleverly laid out in a beautiful and functioning...

Sactown is a uniquely diverse place that has an identity all its own. From the people to the climate and geographic location of the city...

A tourist's impression of Singapore might be the Marina Bay Sands, Sentosa, or Merlion Park. For a time, this was how I viewed Singapore....

Tours, France. Without hesitation, I can say that it is my favorite city on the planet. A quaint little university town located in the...

Technically, I don’t live in any city. My address (a farm in southern Illinois) falls in the periphery between several small towns in the...

As I traverse the bustling streets of Hong Kong, I am enveloped in a cacophony of sounds, sights, and smells that evoke a sense of both...

Living in New York City for the last eight years, I've taken pride in the city's urban form. I love being outdoors in any part of the...

Language is such a powerful, perception-forming tool, and the language used to describe anything from people, events, and places in mass...

At first glance, Buffalo is a gray city with extreme snowstorms, a polluted waterfront, and racial segregation and violence. Although I...

Charlotte, NC is a city with so many recent entrants that a new term, the “Charlotte Unicorn,” has been coined to identify people who...

My nose pressed and bumped against the school bus window while my eyes grew wide as I took in my new urban metropolis. Frankly, it was...

(Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso from this North Jersey article which I recommend taking a look at. The pictures are very nice.) This 2019...

My first time coming to the US took me from a girl who mostly traveled between two regions in my country to spending two days on...

The small bump of the car as it turns into the parking lot pulls me from the half-awake, half-asleep state that I always seem to find...

I grew up in Ithaca. Ithaca, the small, quaint, charming city that >25,000 students travel to and call home for at least part of the...

The city I grew up in is called Nanjing. “It has seen 2500 years of happenings before me.” I sometimes think that while walking under the...

The San Diego Padres after winning the 2022 National League Division Series It was October 15, 2022. The San Diego Padres were down 3-0...

"I am from D.C.” No, I am not. I actually come from a small suburban town called Ashburn, just 30 minutes outside of Washington D.C. I...

I moved from my hometown Wuxi to Beijing when I was six. Exotic, that’s how I saw the relationship between my family and the city. We...