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City's Roman Catholic church placed on at-risk list • Nov. 8, 2026, 1:17 AM ET (BBC)

City and county collaborate on grant to improve evacuation routes • Nov. 4, 2026, 4:41 PM ET (The Spokane Spokesman-Review)

Tiny HB Køge faces mighty Barcelona, City hosts PSG in Women's Champions League • Oct. 27, 2026, 2:08 AM ET (AP)

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Dense crowd of people walking through the brightly lit Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, surrounded by colorful store signs and billboards in Japanese and English.

A vertical timeline compares the development of agriculture, cities, and writing from 12,000 BCE to 1000 CE in the Fertile Crescent, China, Indus Valley, Mesoamerica, and South America. Colored bands for each region highlight milestones such as domestication of plants and animals, emergence of early cities, invention of writing systems, and major cultural events, showing how these advances occurred at different times across the five regions.

Mohenjo-daro: tower

The Acropolis in Athens, Greece, with the Parthenon temple prominently situated on the rocky hill above the city and ancient ruins visible in the foreground.

Stone ruins and columns of the ancient Roman city of Thamugadi, also known as Timgad, with a large triumphal arch in the center and distant buildings in northeastern Algeria.

Aerial view of Speyer Cathedral in Germany, showing its four towers and central nave surrounded by trees and the cityscape of Speyer.

Aerial view of Florence, Italy, with Brunelleschi's massive red-tiled dome of the Duomo in the foreground and small tourists visible on top, surrounded by city buildings.

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Aerial view of a sprawling suburban neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, showing rows of houses with similar rooftops, curved streets, and landscaped yards.

See how European settlers in U.S. Northeast created metropolises such as Boston and New York City

History and future of urban growth

Turning cities into raw material depots for recycling

Understand how plants, animals, and other organisms adapt to the urban ecosystem with a slight change in their behavior and genes

Examine urbanization in South America by viewing Lima, Santiago, and Valparaíso

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