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When Warsaw’s Old Town was destroyed by Hitler’s troops in the second world war, the nation mobilised to rebuild the city with the rubble of its own destruction – and the work of Italian painter Bernardo Bellotto.

Central Park was conceived as “social salve” to ease tensions between existing residents and newcomers, a historian writes. Did it work?

Watch the city evolve from 150 A.D. to 2010.

When I first encountered this doyenne of urban activism, she offered one of the sharpest critiques I’d ever heard. Jane Jacobs was relentless, and stood up to anyone in her quest to understand what really makes a city.

Examining swelling urban borders over the past 100 years.

Those Millennial-filled compounds aren’t all that different from 19th-century boarding houses. Co-living isn’t just a product of our current housing crisis. It has served as a de facto social network of urban transplants for generations.

Designed for Stalin as the world’s first completely planned city, Magnitogorsk has yet to confront its controversial past – from the forced labour that helped build it in record time, to the severe pollution that has plagued its residents. In July 1931, Ibragim Akhmetzyanov arrived in Magnitogorsk in a wooden boxcar with his wife and eight children. The sight that greeted them was bleak.

Established 500 years ago, Venice’s Jewish ghetto still has some lessons to give