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The preservationists perspective on the city is a curious one; while northern cities celebrate their cultural attractions or ethnic mixes, New Orieans celebrates its architecture. One of the unusual things about the city is the way it defines itself according to its physical presence, the way people there perceive industrialization...
Black cumulonimbus clouds rolled in on New York City, darkening the afternoon sky up to nearly 40,000 ft. Lightning bolts darted above Manhattan's skyscrapers. Thunder sporadically overwhelmed the city's normal noises of traffic, subways and sirens. It would be a wet but cool rush hour...
But first, like Mike Cherry did first, I should say quickly who the ironworkers are: Ironworkers are the men who ride the tops of tall buildings as the buildings go up, fitting together beams and columns (the "iron," which is really steel) and climbing higher as they build to build...
Meanwhile, in the U.S., the American Dream is close to realization. The Melting Pot has done its work, and all today join together in complaining that the Internal Revenue Service is overtaxing us. Those who might differ are ringed off into compact enclaves, like blacks squeezed into downtown Detroit or...
Chile has now fallen victim to a further swing of the pendulum ever-moving between past and future. Those who would use the past to create a new future have temporarily succumbed to the indiscriminate forces of the modern age. But the hope of Chile, in its fading from reality...