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Plucky upstart

While Croatia has experienced a tourism boom, its third-largest city has forged its own unique path, building on its coastal location and can-do attitude to welcome a wave of businesses – big and small.

  • Issue #157
  • 10 min read
Pedestrians walking along the Korzo pedestrian street lined with historic Habsburg-era buildings and modern shops
Business

Greater expectations

It might be Ljubljana’s little sister but the evolving Slovenian city of Maribor is drawing entrepreneurs and expats with big ambitions.

  • Issue #150
  • 10 min read
Greater expectations
Culture

Statues of liberty

Lithuania's second city emerges from the shadows with its unique interwar modernist architecture, blending international influences with distinctly local traditions as European Capital of Culture.

  • Issue #149
  • 9 min read
Morning fog on the tree-lined pedestrian boulevard of Laisves Aleja in Kaunas
Urbanism

Cities

Croatia’s Kvarner Bay in the limelight, Buenos Aires’ mayor stands his ground and China’s cities experiment with recycling.

  • Issue #131
  • 4 min read
Colorful hillside Mediterranean town with terracotta roofs along turquoise water.

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