Cities are undoubtedly at the core of our civilization, from the earliest traces of urban settlements built over 6,000 years ...

Did you know Damascus, Syria, has been home to people for about 3000 B.C.E.? Today, it has a population of around 2.6 million ...

Mesopotamia, often known as the cradle of ... 3300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India that excelled in city planning and architecture. Cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro had paved ...

The town featured organized urban planning, where houses were connected ... al-Natah was still small compared to cities in Mesopotamia or Egypt during the same period. "While urbanization began ...

In the arid desert of Saudi Arabia, the Khaybar Oasis holds a remarkable discovery: the ruins of an ancient town that tell a ...

TEHRAN - The historic ziggurat of Tchogha Zanbil in southwest Iran, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has taken significant steps ...

Esenyurt, an industrial city with a large Kurdish electorate ... the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality], I worked at the State Planning Organisation... until today there is nothing, they are ...

Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...

This is not surprising; ever since Miéville’s 867-page Perdido Street Station (2000), a dark fantasy novel set in the fictional city of New ... at the original planning stage, there weren ...