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Yes courtyard urbanism was also a proposed plan for Canberra, Australian capital city. Courtyard blocks were once the “known good” of urban planning: the durable form that let cities be dense, green, mixed-use, and family-capable. Then the hub-and-spoke commuter model (office towers at the center, suburban sprawl at the edge) pushed the middle class into car-and-yard servitude. But, cities go through cycles, and we are cycling now back to better cities, with better urban form. As Virgil wrote in his pastoral eclogue, foretelling the coming of a new age for Rome: Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo — “The majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew.”

I hear from a near-dead legal AI company looking to get acquired every 3 weeks or so. They all have one thing in common: they trained their own models rather than building on top of foundation models And unfortunately those model assets are basically worthless

How the world's greatest cities became unforgettable: 1. Paris makes you fall in love 2. Tokyo makes you feel the future 3. New York makes you feel alive 4. Istanbul makes you question time 5. Rio makes you forget your problems 6. Mumbai never lets you sleep 7. Vienna makes you feel cultured 8. Havana makes you nostalgic for something you never lived 9. Beirut breaks your heart and fixes it the same night 10. Kyoto makes you slow down 11. Lagos makes you believe in energy 12. Rome makes you feel small in the best way 13. Buenos Aires makes you want to dance at midnight 14. Amsterdam makes you rethink how a city should be built 15. Cairo makes you feel thousands of years pressing down 16. Barcelona makes you believe architecture is a love language 17. Nairobi makes you feel a continent rising 18. Lisbon makes you ache for something you cannot name 19. Seoul makes you question whether you have been living efficiently 20. Mexico City makes you understand that chaos and beauty are the same thing 21. Prague makes you feel like you stepped inside a painting 22. Marrakech overwhelms every one of your senses at once 23. Singapore makes you realize what a city looks like when it actually works 24. Athens reminds you that everything modern was once someone's ancient idea 25. São Paulo makes you feel the hunger of a city still becoming itself 26. Edinburgh makes you believe in ghosts and you are not even superstitious 27. Tbilisi makes you wonder why nobody told you sooner 28. Cartagena makes you feel like the heat itself has a personality 29. Medellín shows you that a city can completely rewrite its own story 30. Copenhagen makes you question why everyone else makes things so complicated 31. Accra makes you feel a pride that does not even belong to you 32. Kolkata makes you confront beauty and struggle sharing the same square meter 33. Bruges makes you feel like time forgot to move and you are grateful 34. Amman makes you feel welcomed before you have spoken a word 35. Jakarta makes you understand twenty million people sharing the same urgency 36. Tallinn makes you feel like the medieval world never fully let go 37. Bogotá surprises you so completely you feel embarrassed for your assumptions 38. Chiang Mai makes you breathe slower without anyone telling you to 39. Porto makes you realize faded beauty is still beauty, maybe more so 40. Dakar makes you feel the ocean and the continent pulling equally 41. Reykjavik makes you feel the earth is still being made beneath your feet 42. Jerusalem makes you feel the impossible weight of what people believe 43. Hanoi moves at full speed and still feels intimate 44. Thessaloniki makes you wonder why its neighbor gets all the attention 45. Sarajevo makes you sit quietly long after you leave 46. Oaxaca makes you understand that culture expressed through food survives everything 47. Lviv shows the stubborn dignity of a people who refuse to disappear 48. Zanzibar makes you feel the air itself is different 49. Lagos deserves a second mention because one feeling was never enough 50. Delhi swallows you whole, overwhelms you completely, and somehow makes you want to come back for more

🇮🇩 ✈️ FUN FACT: Indonesia ~92–98% of citizens have never traveled abroad.

I didn't realize that Airbnb's stock is below its first-day closing price, even before adjusting for inflation.

Brazilian bodybuilder and fitness influencer Gabriel Ganley has died at the age of 22.