Topic: history
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50 Years After the Beatles, Liverpool Is Back
England's Detroit has boosted its cultural offerings to become a tourist magnet.
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You've Heard of Skyscrapers. But What About a 'Depthscraper'?
It's basically a giant hole in the ground, designed to withstand Japanese earthquakes.
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Videos
The Minute Warsaw Stood Still
City comes to a halt in honor of an effort to liberate the city from the Nazis in 1944.
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A Guidebook for the Urban Age
P.D. Smith's engaging and illuminating new book on the history, evolution and intricacies of cities.
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A Tourist's Guide For Your City's Mundane, Obscure Attractions
A handful of new travel companies ask what you'd learn if you approached the mundane in your own neighborhood like a tourist.
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The Evolution of the American Dream, from Colonial Times to Today
A big new exhibit at the National Building Museum explores the history of house and home in the U.S.
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Photos
Everyone Wants to Look at New York's Municipal Archives Photos
The city has released over 870,000 historic images and made them available online.
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Why the Streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam Look So Different From Ours
By seizing a historical moment, ordinary Danish and Dutch citizens were able to change the course of development in their urban centers.
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Urban Wonk
The Invention of Jaywalking
The forgotten history of how the auto industry won the right of way for cars.
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The Historical Roots of Detroit's Ruin
In Detroit: A Biography, journalist Scott Martelle finds the answers behind today's Motor City buried deep in its past.
