architecture

Travelogs 3/2011 invites us to discover the historic heart of Shanghai, built when Britain was a colonial power. This district, called the Bund, is now surrounded by an ultra-modern megacity. Come with us on a little tour of the modern sights.

You can walk across a large part of downtown Montreal without ever going outdoors. But it is worth going outdoors, no matter what the weather, to see some of the unusual structures that give the city its distinctive character.

From Las Vegas Boulevard — known as "the Strip" — to the harsh landscape of the Kalahari Desert, from beautiful Sydney Harbour to the slums of Dhaka, our photo blogger Jan Stuermann has been there. Let's join him now in another world tour.

Travelogs June: Glasgow by design

The place to go this year is Istanbul: along with the Ruhr Valley and Pécs, Hungary, it's one of the three European Capitals of Culture. Mike Pilewski takes us to the megacity on the Bosporus in a land caught between East and West, between tradition and modernity.

Clam chowder, maple syrup, turkey, cranberries, baked beans, Grüner Veltliner wine and miso soup can all be found on the Boston menu. The cuisine is influenced by the region's seaports and farms and the cultural links between Massachusetts, Europe and Asia.

It is among the top 10 most livable cities in the world says The Economist. Spotlight's Janina Schneider-Eicke, who spent a year studying in Australia, shares her photos and impressions of the most spectacular city in the land down under.

Thousands of migrating birds die each year after hitting skyscrapers in Chicago. Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects says that the "natural" look of the city's Aqua Tower will dramatically reduce the number of fatal building-bird collisions.

"A man is not a whole and complete man," wrote America's poet, Walt Whitman, "unless he owns a house and the ground it stands on." Italians have historically seen property as their most important investment, and now they are buying US buildings.