Metropolitan Paris has now extended far beyond its ancient suburbs into the countryside, however, and nearly every French town and village now numbers a retiree or two driven from the city by the high cost of living, so that, in a sense, Paris has come to embrace the desert and the desert Paris.
A few miles outside town, hundreds of members of autodefensas — vigilante "self-defense" militias composed largely of fed-up farmworkers — were patrolling the streets of semirural suburbs with ancient rifles and shotguns, hoping to rid them of the drug cartel thugs who had terrorized them for years.
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a Jewish garden suburb of the ancient Mediterranean port of Jaffa (now Yafo), with which it was joined in 1950.
Police kept a close watch, confiscating some flags but letting the march continue from the Boudha suburb to the ancient monastery of Swyambhu.
By Jiayang Fan April 11 , 2015A Uighur donkey-cart vendor waits for customers at the Melikawat Ancient Ruins in the southern suburb of Hotan, Xinjiang.
Along with a couple from New Zealand, we boarded a crowded public bus, then transferred to another for the hourlong ride out to Santa Ana del Valle, a Zapotecan village that had once been a suburb of the ancient Zapotecan capital, Monte Albán, whose ruins I had visited the previous afternoon.
It is a land of cities, ancient and modern, not of suburbs.
The mayors in their white smocks seemed tired, leaning against the wall reading newspapers, isolated in the full house while the unseasonable snowfall whited out the Diyarbakir suburbs and the ancient and recent problems of their chosen districts waited stubbornly for them at home.
John Strugnell was born in Barnet, England, a suburb of London, and became fluent in ancient and modern languages at an early age.
Our search for Antioch's town centre leads through uninspiring suburbs before revealing the stunning, plunging valley where ancient Antioch, today's Antakya, glints and winks in sapphire-bright March sunlight.
