Journal
Reports, analyses and features from all 195 countries - the journalism behind the journeys.
Count the Lit Windows
A historic centre on a Tuesday evening in February, and the arithmetic that emptied it. Nobody decided to hollow out the old town; several thousand owners each decided, correctly, that visitors pay more than neighbours.
A City Built for the People Who Live in It
Proximity planning is a policy about residents that has quietly become the best thing to happen to walking around a strange city — and the reason a hire car will collect a fine four weeks after you returned it.
Several Hundred Thousand People Optimised for the Same Thing
The same café has opened in every city on earth and nobody franchised it. A feedback loop with one fixed point — plus the case against the traveller’s complaint, and the thing that is genuinely being lost two streets away.
A Hundred People in One Alley
Overtourism sounds like a quantity problem. Nearly every measured case is a concentration problem — a few streets, a few days, an afternoon peak set by twenty scheduling decisions. Including, this magazine should admit, decisions like ours.