Urban geography

Cities and towns all over Greece will be celebrating World Bicycle Day on Monday, encouraging residents to ditch their cars and go eco-friendly in their commutes and organizing all sorts of fun events and activities for the entire family.

A comprehensive regulation of the short-term rental sector is already long overdue. 

The Greek state should not intervene only to rationalize the taxation of this developing form of real estate use; it should also follow the examples of other European cities, which have set restrictions in order to protect the diversity of urban living.

Opening today, Anna Laudel Istanbul gallery presents Bilal Hakan Karakaya's solo exhibition "Invisible Cities."

Named after the well-known novel Italo Calvino, Karakaya focuses on the rising mega structures in metropolitan life and emphasizes how desolate and unrecognizable the modern cities have become through the art of sculpture.

A total of 592 villages in Bulgaria have no population or a single-digit number of inhabitants. This is shown by a BTA reference in the data as of December 31, 2021 of the National Register of Settlements (NRS) of the NSI.

A U.K.-based culture magazine has picked the world's best 53 cities, ranking Türkiye's largest city Istanbul in the list.

Out of the 53 ranked cities chosen by the Time Out magazine, Edinburgh made it to the top of the list and was followed by Chicago and Medellin, while Istanbul was listed 50th.

A tire repairman living in the northwestern province of Kocaeli has been commuting on a horse named "Rüzgar" ('Wind' in English) for almost a year.

"I go to work riding on Rüzgar and tie her at the garden behind my workplace," Summani Yılmaz told İhlas News Agency on June 6.

The bishop of Pentapolis was endowed with the spiritual knowledge to correctly interpret the injustices which he suffered

The president of the Thessaloniki Municipal Council on Tuesday lashed out at residents defying government injunctions for self-containment and social distancing to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Iasi in the northeast, the ugly sister among Romania's big cities, seemed to buck the trend. 

But today this once neglected city is changing fast, from a run-down post-industrial centre into a regional hub for IT, attracting international companies and global giants such as Amazon, Oracle and the research division of the German automotive manufacturer Continental. 

Not well and poorly serviced by Sofia's public transport are not only the areas on the periphery of the city but also those that are relatively close to the center. The pride of the management of the metropolitan at Sofia municipality in the last decade - the metro, is far from beneficial for the entire capital and suburban areas, but mainly for the neighborhoods situated along it.