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Edinburgh: two ways of building a city
Granada: the garden begins upstream
Hội An: a waterfront built for exchange
Petra: the water behind the stone
Stone Town: an Indian Ocean city at street level
Quito: a city fitted to the Andes
Lisbon at Belém: a riverfront that changed
Marrakesh: heritage also needs a voice
Angkor: look beyond the temple silhouette
Banff and the Rockies: scenery records processes
Wadi Rum: a desert with several kinds of history
Sydney: why the roof has a family resemblance
Prague: a bridge connects more than two banks
Budapest: two banks, one changing city
Luang Prabang: a town shaped by rivers and daily life
Rapa Nui: monuments belong to a living landscape
Machu Picchu: read the mountain, not only the ruins
Chichén Itzá: a whole city beyond one pyramid
Fez: a city is also a store of skills
Luxor: stone columns carry a longer story
Chicago: a river changed direction and purpose
Oaxaca: two different ways to organise a place
Tongariro: a landscape can have more than one meaning
Levuka: a port town follows the land
Seoul at Changdeokgung: building with the ground
Singapore: a garden is also a scientific institution
Hong Kong: a longer history in coastal stone
Beijing: how a palace arranges power
Borobudur: a monument gives movement a shape
Near Yogyakarta: Prambanan is not one generic temple
Porto: a city shaped by river, slope and trade
Bergen's Bryggen: the history behind the gables
Okavango: a delta that does not reach the sea
Namib Sand Sea: wind, fog and a moving landscape
Yosemite: rock formed below ground, shaped above it
Blue Mountains: look beyond the blue distance
London at the Tower: architecture as an assertion of power
Amsterdam's canals: a planned city beneath a familiar view
Historic Cairo: a living city with many layers
Abu Simbel: preserving a monument also changes its story
Washington's National Mall: public space and public memory
New Orleans: listen for the communities behind the music
Kathmandu Valley: craftsmanship across a living landscape
Jaipur: the ideas behind an ordered city
Lalibela: architecture made by removing rock
Gorée: a place of memory, and how to read it
Old Havana: public squares, houses and a defended harbour
Cartagena: reading a city through its defences
Vienna: finding the former walls in a modern city
Kraków: three urban stories within one historic centre
Barcelona at Park Güell: a plan that changed purpose
Seville: a tower, a palace and an archive
Dubrovnik: a city whose fabric tells of repair
Mont-Saint-Michel: reading architecture with the bay
Tunis and Carthage: two places, many layers
Serengeti: following a moving relationship
Ngorongoro: a landscape with more than one timescale
Mauritius at Le Morne: looking beyond the beach
Reykjavík: the city beyond the dramatic landscape
Québec City: understanding the upper and lower town
Hanoi at Thang Long: looking below the skyline
Bangkok at the Grand Palace: different spaces, different purposes
Varanasi: a riverfront with different meanings
Sigiriya: a rock, a garden and the evidence between them
Galle: where a street plan meets the coast
Samarkand: looking beyond the tiled facade
Antigua Guatemala: a city shaped by rebuilding
Cusco: reading the junction between two walls
Rio de Janeiro: where the landscape is also a design
Buenos Aires at La Boca: colour with a working history
Valparaíso: a port city that climbs
Torres del Paine: the rocks behind the silhouette
Kakadu: water, stone and a living cultural landscape
Tasmanian Wilderness: landscapes with more than one history
Ningaloo: the reef and the dry land belong together
Abel Tasman coast: the history beneath the golden beach