In one way or another, the superrich have always been trying to extend their lives. Ancient Egyptians crammed their tombs with everything they’d need to live on in an afterlife not unlike their own world, just filled with more fun. In the modern era, the ultra-wealthy have attempted to live on through their legacies: sponsoring museums and galleries to immortalize their names.
Since the pandemic upended the world, we’ve been getting plenty of mixed signals about cities. We’ve heard both that cities like New York are over and that they’re immensely popular. Are they bastions of disease that people will forever avoid?
Visions of “lost cities” in the jungle have consumed western imaginations since Europeans first visited the tropics of Asia, Africa and the Americas. From the Lost City of Z to El Dorado, a thirst for finding ancient civilisations and their treasures in perilous tropical forest settings has driven innumerable ill-fated expeditions. This obsession has seeped into western societies’ popular ideas of tropical forest cities, with overgrown ruins acting as the backdrop for fear, discovery and life-threatening challenges in countless films, novels and video games.
The 13th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey was recently released, and its purpose was to report on the current severely...
It’s easy to forget just how diverse the United States is because it is just one country, but with 50...
[Slideshow — if slides do not advance, click here] It is mid-March and spring is in the air, the world...
Where we choose to live will have a profound effect on many aspects of our lives, including professional opportunities, quality of life and the people we meet. Arguably, where we live is as important a decision as choosing a partner or career, yet for many of us, where we choose to call home is just a matter of happenstance.
. . . a wonderful wednesday afternoon and thoughts are drifting, drifting to far off places — to romantic canals and glass museums, tiny boulangeries and grand archways, a sweet nostalgia for all the places we have been, and all of the places still in our dreams . . .
