Planned at the end of the sixteenth century and built during the seventeenth, Amsterdam has inspired generations of city planners.
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Québec City is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Americas, and the one that still feels closest to its roots.
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There were few Indian rulers as passionate about architecture as Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the founder of Jaipur.
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It was here the founders shaped the future of American government.
Buenos Aires is one of the larger cities seen by orbiting crews. Twelve million people, almost one third of all Argentines, live in this city, often called the “Paris of the South”.
Flood water continues receding from Thailand’s historic city of Ayutthaya in December 2011 and January 2012.
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The Mongolian capital is spreading outward as migrants from the countryside fill neighborhoods on the fringes of the city.
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Nearly 10 percent of Brazil’s population lives in São Paulo, which ranks as the tenth largest city in the world.
Juba, a port city on the White Nile, is the capital of the new nation of South Sudan and is one of the fastest growing cities in the world.