Built In Living Memory
Modern Marvels
Tokyo, Singapore, the Panama Canal, Bilbao — what the last hundred years built that is worth a journey, and what is only worth a photograph.
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Tokyo
Thirty-seven million people in the largest metropolitan area on earth, rebuilt twice in a century, and the best-functioning city anywhere.
One degree north of the equator
Singapore
A city-state the size of the Isle of Man that went from a colonial port to one of the richest places on earth in sixty years, and engineered its own weather-proof greenery to prove it.