Filled with traffic and camera-toting tourists, until recently the 350-year-old streets of Old Montreal resembled a Canadian Times Square.
Defaced by modern shopping malls, it pours into six old streets where stunning neo-classical mansions mix with an odd bunch of Soviet apartment blocks.
It is Shuncheng Jie, the Muslim quarter and one of very few old streets left in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan in the far south-west.
Behind the dunes and on the edge of the Arabian Gulf on the north side of Doha, the 18-month-old streets of Katara resemble a traditional Gulf fishing town.
Even locals and compass equipped cartographers lose their way in millennia-old Medina streets flanked by some 3, 000 derbs (winding alleys), which predate city planning and defy satellite mapping.
The elite timekeeping houses of the world have their shops there, set up in old mansions on streets like the Rue de Synagogue and Rue de Richemont.
Chandarvati, a 70-year-old woman who lives a few streets away from the 6-year-old's family, says she had gone to see what was happening.
Head for Fort Cochin, a maze of narrow streets and old buildings, where most visitors stay.
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The money will go towards transforming the Old Town and surrounding streets, including Frith Road, Church Street and Exchange Square.
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Assume that no foolish urban plan exists to bulldoze away the centuries-old warren of narrow streets, and the likelihood is that the quartier will remain special for many years yet.
Moreover, Mr Major also inherited the poll tax, the product of his predecessor's attempt to reform local-government finance, which had young rebels on the streets and old rebels deserting the Conservatives in droves.
Have a "pinch me" moment as you view the Wat Mahathat temple at sunset, and then gingerly cruise the streets of Old Town on a bicycle tour before resting at The Legendha Sukhothai Resort.
His form may have waned since Brazil's defeat in the 1998 World Cup final but the 23-year-old from the back streets of Rio de Janeiro told reporters he hoped to be playing for Inter Milan this spring.
He was walking home one night, he said, through the quiet streets of the old town center.
However extreme his anger might be, he could not leave a ten-year-old boy to wander the streets alone.
Rather than take the belt loop to the office, she detoured on surface streets through her old neighborhood, just to catch a glimpse of the house.
Thousands went to work in the old buildings that lined these streets, forging the metal that built our trains and our ships and our cars and our skyscrapers.
Those rejected candidates now stare forlornly from old campaign posters on the streets of Lille - but their ideas remain very much a part of French business culture.
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Prague has half a dozen low-cost flights a day from Britain alone, making it more likely to hear English rather than Czech in the streets of the old town.
Set on curving stone streets, the old town retains a bohemian air, and the numerous museums and galleries here are bursting with the work of modern masters and artists of old.
This walled, UNESCO World Heritage Site's clay tiled roofs, majestic bell towers and cobblestone streets exude a romantic Old World aura.
Wak isn't much to look at: a few potholed streets with 30-year-old concrete homes of German design.
Idle away the afternoon by exploring the narrow sois (side streets) of Rattanakosin, the old city, or Yaowarat, Bangkok's Chinatown.
In Shiraz, 28-year-old Najmeh said she has taken to the streets every day since Saturday -- much to the chagrin of her worried parents.
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La Pedrera, run straight as arrows, pointing to the heart of the Cuitat Vella (Old Town) and the narrow, tangled streets of the Barri Gotic (Gothic Quarter), which hides dusty plazas and Moorish eight-pointed fountains.
In the Old Town, the narrow, shade-dampened streets turn away from its embrace.
Burn it off by pounding the cobblestoned streets of Vieux-Lille (the old town), perhaps with a sinful stop-off at macaroon-maker Patrick Hermand on rue Basse.
Over the summer, my wife and I ran into an old friend: PR maven Robbie Vorhaus on the streets of his hometown of Sag Harbor.
On meandering walks with friends through his childhood East End haunts he would point out both the streets where writers had lived and the old signs, for fresh milk or synagogues, fading on the walls.
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