Out of its post-Soviet ruin, Tallinn has rebuilt itself as a borderless digital city of the future, moving with a speed and flexibility that older bureaucracies lack.
Given the large scale of modern urban areas, which are more borderless metropolitan regions than self-contained cities, designing these Europolises of the future necessarily involves numerous states, cities, towns – and, ideally, the millions of citizens that live in them.
In June, the Islamic State took control of Iraq's second largest city of Mosul and declared a borderless caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria.
They are borderless, mostly self-employed remote workers who interact with cities in a way that's entirely different from a tourist, but still doesn't quite reach the status of resident.
The records that came out of these borderless scenes soon became the soundtrack of the entire city and beyond, with Blondie's Rapture, Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock, the Peech Boys Doon't Make Me Wait and Madonna's Holiday effortlessly crossing genres, cliques and, soon, oceans.
Hieronymus hopes that her brand feels borderless since it was developed as a concept between two cities as well as inspired by the infinite possibilities of the internet. .
IKEA constitutes a sort of borderless nation-state, with seats of power, redoubts of conservatism, second cities, imperial outposts, creative hubs, and administrative backwaters.
The city is already a vast Olympic-driven building site.Cancellation is unlikely, given the borderless nature of the scandal (though Innsbruck and Calgary, both former hosts, have generously offered to step into the breach).
Though several of Orhan Pamuk's novels stubbornly hark back to that condemned past (The White Castle, My Name is Red) or look at contemporary tragedies with a borderless eye (Snow), the principal character of much of his most important fiction is the city of Istanbul itself, where Pamuk was born in 1952.
The valley was once a borderless frontier for rural Croats and Slovenes who felt more in common with each other than with their capital cities.
