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Voices In Time

c. 25 BC | Rome

Blueprint

Building a better forum.More

Voices In Time

1840 | Venice

Tourist Destination

Hans Christian Andersen pays homage to Venice.More

Voices In Time

1883 | Los Angeles

Ancien Régime

Looking at the remnants of old California.More

Voices In Time

c. 1846 | Walden Pond

Traffic Pattern

Thoreau watches the trains go by.More

Voices In Time

360 | Antioch

Public Square

Mixing and mingling in ancient Antioch.More

Voices In Time

c. 1200 BC | Athens

Commonwealth

Theseus unifies Attica.More

Voices In Time

1949 | Boston

Fare Hike

Trapped in the Boston subway.More

Voices In Time

1666 | London

Most Horrid, Malicious, Bloody Flame

Samuel Pepys gives an eyewitness account of the Great Fire of London.More

Voices In Time

c. 335 BC | Athens

Pledge of Allegiance

Athenian youth swear an oath.More

Voices In Time

c. 1864 | London

Street Noise

Charles Babbage wages a war on street musicians.More

Voices In Time

1849 | San Francisco

Mud and Mules

William Tecumseh Sherman’s adventures in California.More

Voices In Time

c. 540 | Constantinople

City Planning

Justinian soaks the poor.More

Voices In Time

c. 1821 | Paris

Assaying a Crowd

Balzac gives an introduction to the world of necessary superfluities.More

Voices In Time

1920 | San Francisco

The Scene Almost Staggers

H.L. Mencken leaves his heart in San Francisco.More

Voices In Time

c. 1936 | New York City

Blowing into Town

F. Scott Fitzgerald takes a bite of the Big Apple.More

Voices In Time

c. 330 BC | Athens

Census

The demographics of the ideal city.More

Voices In Time

1844 | London

Examining the Costs of Production

Friedrich Engels sheds light on the lives of London’s poor.More

Voices In Time

1708 | London

Burial Grounds

Christopher Wren requests a graveyard shift.More

Voices In Time

1889 | Chicago

Job Search

A small-town girl meets big-city life.More

Voices In Time

c. 1250 | Saba

Luxury

Rumi calls for a moment of silence.More

Voices In Time

1776 | Glasgow

Import, Export

Adam Smith explains the commercial origins of political order.More

Voices In Time

1844 | Manchester

Among the Best

Disraeli marvels at the glory that is Manchester.More

Voices In Time

1898 | London

Mixed Media

Ebenezer Howard and the marriage of town and country.More

Voices In Time

c. 1835 | London

Never Can There Come a Fog Too Thick

Charles Dickens on mud, fog, and the law.More

Voices In Time

1520 | Tenochtitlán

Nothing Is Equal

Cortés extols the splendor of the Aztecs.More

Voices In Time

c. 1185 | England

Shopping Mall

Overwhelmed by overabundance.More

Voices In Time

2008 | New York City

Waste Management

A journey through New York’s cesspool system.More

Voices In Time

1877 | United States

Vanity Fair

The inherent vice of city life.More

Voices In Time

1700 | London

Dens of Iniquity

Coffee talk with Thomas Brown.More

Voices In Time

1905 | New York City

Honest Graft

How politicians make money.More

Voices In Time

1866 | Atlantis

The Character Remains

Stumbling across a lost civilization.More

Voices In Time

325 | Constantinople

Divine Plan

Constantine builds a city in his own image.More

Voices In Time

1850 | Washington, DC

Body Politic

Henry Adams surveys life on the Hill.More

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