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Could Porto’s Sustainable Tourism Experiment Work In Lisbon?

The cities of Amsterdam and Bruges may inspire the Portuguese capital to reinvent its approach to tourism. As Porto launches an experimental new vision map designed to disperse tourist flows, could Lisbon do the same?

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Food / Travel Society

Boa Mistura, International: How A Madrid Street Art Collective Reimagines World Cities

Born in Madrid but working around the world, art collective Boa Mistura explores creativity as a powerful force to inspire dialogue and transform urban environments into canvases of hope.

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Smarter Cities Society

Rabat Renewal: How To Modernize Morocco’s Ancient Capital

RABAT — At the mouth of the Bou Regreg River in Morocco, the small blue boats go from one shore to the other. The tireless rowers have assured the exchange of goods between Rabat and Salé, a commuter town on the other side of the river. “We wanted to preserve the boats, because they are […]

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Where Poetry Meets City Planning: The French Art Of Urban Renewal

IVRY-SUR-SEINE — The Plateau special planning district in this small town south of Paris could almost be mistaken for a regular construction site. Since 2007 the multidisciplinary artist Stefan Shankland has guided the construction of some 1,000 apartments according to an “action research” program launched by the city government and developed over the course of […]

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