Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel sits imposingly on a corner in the city center, bright white with neat black shutters. As guests pull up in front of the French Colonial building, they are greeted by staff ...

On a recent chilly, drizzly afternoon in Amsterdam’s city center, a steady stream of patrons venture out of the rain and into a narrow 17th-century building on the Haarlemmerdijk, a popular shopping ...

R.L. Byrd On the night of January, 11, 1989, near the end of a 21-minute farewell address, President Ronald Reagan asked the TV audience, “How stands ‘The City’ on this winter night?” The City—a ...