CN has been canvassing UK agency opinion and insight on how they make Birmingham work well for their big events and what are ...

In the U.S., urban planners introduced zoning that called for “setbacks.” They wrote “solar codes” into urban plans. They ...

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Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on Ottoman Turkish music, Yiddish dance and klezmer music. An accomplished musician and a respected academic who has taught at elite univer ...

Supporting cutting-edge research at colleges and universities — even, or especially, in its earliest stages, before anyone ...

It's fitting that a major survey of the maze-like abstractions of Portuguese French artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–92) is taking place in Venice, a city whose labyrinthine streets ...

Medieval medicine is undergoing a reputation makeover. New research reveals that far from being stuck in superstition, early Europeans actively explored healing practices based on nature, observation, ...

The personal signature of a modern president carries the same legal authority and symbolic significance as it did when George Washington signed his name with a quill.

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The omnipresent French fries, while delicious, don’t really make for a complete meal (unless you’ve been partaking at one of ...