Waterfront Cities of the World

Helsinki is a city unlike any other: a leader in social policy, an innovator in telecommunications, nearly obsessive in its pursuit of civil organization.

Feet in the water, head in the clouds. A little paradise on earth is blossoming here, slowly eclipsing the pain of recent history.

Having completely transformed itself over the last 20 years, Lisbon has become Europe’s most cosmopoli- tan city.

How does this city continue to side step the tensions that divide this unstable region?

A city in motion rising from a landscape riddled with klongs.

The Portenos have seen it all. The glamour of wealth and opulence, the chokehold of dictatorship, the uneasiness of economic instability.

More than 80 languages can be heard in the streets of Melbourne.

Oil and spaceships! Houston has been defined by NASA and petroleum, and has a reputation for its cowboy ways.

Reykjavik, the bay of smoke, got its name from the countless hot water geysers that dominate its landscape.

Originator of the trend and the counter-trend, home of the beat generation and gay rights.

Lively, dirty, bright, vibrant. A city of contradictions, laid back but demanding, warm but rude, it provokes those who visit and protects those who live it.

Mysterious and romantic, brutal and beautiful, Mos- cow is definitely the global capital of the outrageous.