Word: urbaneness
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...presented in incredible density: from Victoria Peak, you can see just how impossibly tiny the Hong Kong Island urban jungle is. Central's twinkling strip of tenements and skyscrapers line one bank of Victoria Bay while Tsim Sha Tsui, on the far side, is Central's equally slender but less dramatic companion. The manmade portion of Hong Kong is merely two shimmering halves of a wafer-thin cookie engulfed in mountains of green...
...given day in Baghdad it's hard to envision a city on the rise amid the shattered buildings, fields of trash and pools of smelly greenish waste water baking under the sun in many neighborhoods. But a few urban planners in the Iraqi government are dreaming big nonetheless. On the drawing board are plans for overhaul and expansion of Baghdad's bridges, roads and sewage systems, plus ambitious commercial development. Planners are scouting sites around Baghdad to build a five-star hotel, an international fairground, a cultural center, a library, a park with a lake and fountains and an aquarium...
Everyone knows that the best way to take the pulse of a city is to walk its streets. Private-tour company Urban Gentry (www.urbangentry.com) offers exclusive, bespoke walking tours that aim to show you the London you won't find in any guidebook. Focused on the city's design, fashion, art, architecture and food scenes, the tours venture into pockets of London where the company's guides - all picked for their insider knowledge - live, work and play...
Founder Kevin Caruth started Urban Gentry last summer, and since then his clientele has included everyone from style-conscious tourists eager to sniff out the capital's hidden boutiques to Londoners keen on rediscovering their hometown. "The walks listed on our site are meant as a guideline - we'll consider all requests," says Caruth, who once set up a day-long tour for an Irish restaurateur intent on exploring London's noodle bars...
...Serbian fashion designer Dragana Perisic's quirky boutique near Spitalfields Market. Nor would I ever have found the mysteriously nameless plimsoll shop on Cheshire Street, identifiable only by its scruffy cardboard sign, where $10 still buys you a brand-new pair of shoes. Now that's a true urban...