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A walk on the former tracks of New York's High Line. Photo by Leonel Lima Ponce for Inhabitat.com

Three reasons to visit New York now

Three developments in New York City have recently added to the tourist experience — making this a particularly good time to visit a favourite tourist destination that keeps on changing and adapting.

20 steps to world peace

Mike Pilewski: "Haufenwolke says I don't deserve to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. So I've decided to increase my efforts."

"Make It Right" does it right - Medium

Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans, and the US government did the wrong things. But Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" project is helping to rebuild a neighborhood that was destroyed. How well do you know idioms with "do" and "make"?

'Flat Iron' Building, Fifth Avenue and Broadway, New York. Photo from Robert N. Dennis's collection of stereoscopic views. This image is available from the New York Public Library's Digital Library.

Old Europe is buying the New World

"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.

The Burj Dubai rises high in the United Arab Emirates night sky.

How high in the sky is the Burj Dubai?

A mystery about the supertall Burj Dubai is when the skyscraper will be finished and opened to the public. For a while, it looked like September was a strong possibility, with hints that the date would be 9 September — thus, 09.09.09.

Here comes the sun

Bigger, better and greener: the tallest buildings in New York and Chicago are getting an expensive makeover.

Sir Norman Foster - Medium

Sir Norman Foster has built some of the most exciting and useable buildings and public spaces in the world. Learn about them and the language of "green architecture" in our vocabulary exercises.

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