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“We live in a half-made world. So it ever has been since the Tower of Babel was left uncompleted, and
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In 1923, four years before construction on the bridge began, the congregation of the Methodist Church in Washington Heights received
Chicago’s moving sidewalk at the 1893 World’s Fair. Public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons from from the book
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Beneath a tree on a (landlocked) college campus in New Jersey, there’s a cornerstone of a bridge that leads
At the break of the 20th century, industrializing cities were growing voraciously and needed more room. A lot of cities
One of at least five man-made waterfalls in the park. With its sprawling acres of green, it doesn’t seem
A 1946 proposal for the UN headquarters, the eventual fate of the dream city site. Some of these original elements
Delta Airlines has a new rooftop lounge at JFK, but there could have been an entire rooftop airport in midtown
As one of the largest and most varied metropolises of the modern world, New York City is home to some
This is a conceptual sketch of NYC’s proposed Gaudi Hotel, drawn by Juan Matemala. As one of the largest
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