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Saturday column: The city that knows how to grow well

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May 02, 2026
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CROSSING the Steinerne Brücke in Regensburg - in Bavaria, Germany - the bridge that has carried people across the Danube for nearly nine centuries, the relationship between a city and its own past becomes unexpectedly legible.

The stone façades of the old town rise on either bank - dense, ordered and readable without effort.

The UNESCO inscription (here…

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