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I RECENTLY CELEBRATED my 60th birthday with a trip to Ireland and Italy, and, as one does on milestone occasions, I found myself reflecting on my life and on how much I have to be thankful for. I’m so fortunate to be doing something I love and believ

IN THE SUMMER of 2004, my dad, who worked as a magazine editor (no, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree), was temporarily transferred from Los Angeles to New York. At the time, I was a broke twentysomething a few years into my own career in Manha

Most diners probably don’t realize it, but when they order the curried eggplant at Verde Mesa restaurant in San Juan, they’re helping build a more sustainable Puerto Rico. Every meal of locally grown ingredients supports farmers rebounding from Irma

Detroit The latest sign of downtown Detroit’s renaissance? The Siren Hotel, which is giving new life to the 1926 Wurlitzer Building, abandoned since the 1980s. The 106 guest rooms feature colorful terrazzo showers and custom-made blankets from Maine

Philadelphia A former commodities exchange dating to 1895, the Bourse on Independence Mall opened in July with 27 vendors. At Baby Buns, Haitian chef Sylva Senat serves surprising sliders such as falafel on brioche; Bluebird Distilling pours cocktail

Earlier this year, Montgomery, Alabama, saw the opening of the National Memorial to Peace and Justice, the first public memorial dedicated to victims of slavery and racial terror in the United States. At the center of the six-acre site you’ll find 80

HEAD TO Start from: Salt Lake City (4 hours by car) or Denver (5.5 hours by car) What’s there: Red rock spires and more than 2,000 sandstone arches Why now: Arches is one of three area parks that joined forces for the first time this summer with the

IT’S LUNCHTIME IN THE food-crazy island nation of Singapore, and I’m at a food court in the Katong district, breaking a double sweat. It’s not just the tropical heat, but also the aromatic steam billowing from my bowl of curry laksa, a Singaporean co

PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE confused when they meet me, because I have an Indian name but my accent is Italian. My father is from Jaipur, but I was born in Bologna, where my mother is from. In 2010, I moved to Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. There aren’t m

I REALIZED THIS MORNING,” said my friend Leah, “that this is who I am, here in Tokyo. I am a person who waits.” We were, at that moment, 23rd and 24th in line at Fuunji Ramen, surrounded front and back by locals and tourists, part of a neat queue tha

And when we find a green space—tucked between buildings, growing from a wall, blooming in a reclaimed lot—another side of a city reveals itself. “Humans have this incredible ingenuity to turn little corners of spare space into remarkable green resour

In 2015, the year following the completion of Manhattan’s High Line, the 1.45-mile elevated park attracted 7.6 million visitors to the city’s Chelsea neighborhood. But New York wasn’t the first city to turn its old rails green. Paris built the first

Singapore At the time it was completed in 2013, the Tree House’s 24,640-square-foot, west-facing green facade, which spans 24 floors, broke the Guinness World Record for largest vertical garden. The 429-unit building is as green as its surrounds: It’

IT’S A STICKY-HOT NIGHT IN BUENOS AIRES and I am walking endlessly toward dinner. I had set out an hour earlier from my hotel. I followed the western edge of the Río Dársena Sur north until it spilled out into the bay, then pivoted into the crooked s

BARN THE SPOON IS NOT HAPPY TO SEE ME. A flannel-clad mountain of a man, he shakes my hand warily at the urban farm where I’ve found him, before assuring me that he absolutely does not have time to talk with me. He is about to fly to Sweden for a spe

MAGNUM PHOTOS HAS shaped the way we look at cities. Founded in 1947 by five wartime photographers—Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David “Chim” Seymour, and William Vandivert—the agency represents photographers whose work lies at th