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Originally posted by Smiley
Cabrini Green housing project, Chicago

They're 'dozing the Cabrini-Greene projects.

Personally, it's my understanding they weren't as bad as the Robert Taylor Projects, which are also demolished.

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Originally posted by Sava
and so should that thing in georgia... the georgia "mt rushmore" depicting Lee and Davis...

Stone Mountain. It's the largest single granite rock in the entire western hemisphere--and not truly a mountain (rather than having been created by tectonic movement, as the Appalachians, Himalayas, and the Rockies, and Alps were, Stone Mountain was created by erosion of the land around it.)

Stone Mountain used to be a lot better, as both a historical site (there is a colonial museum around it, which reconstructs pre-revolutionary times), and as a scientific curiosity, before they turned it into a cheap and tawdry theme park. As far as the Jefferson Davis carving, while it is a bit... tactless, it's there. I'm not as offended by it, and it's hardly an issue in the metropolitan Atlanta area.

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Personally, a lot of people have rated locations. I agree with many of them, with some of my specific choices being things like the Chicago Loop; the DC Mall; Stone Mountain, GA; Old Town Savannah, but also smaller things to do while you visit the great cities: Chicago and Atlanta Botanical Gardens, for instance.

However, I'll suggest airports to see:
•Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. One of the busiest, and the International Concourse E is pretty s****. Practically a city of its own.
•San Francisco International Airport. While most of the airport sucks, and is rather dull, go see the slick new International Terminal.
•Chicago Midway International Airport. While it's only International in that it flies to Mexico and Canada, the recent renovations have transformed it from a 50's era, cinderblock hole into a modern, 21st century transportation nexus. Alas, the designs and construction were completed before 11 September 2001, which means that the Atrium originally slated to be a meeting point for the travellers and the hosts is now the exclusive domain of those with tickets. Quite a shame.

Airports to avoid:
•Milwaukee. It doesn't look like it's been updated since the 70's.
•Cleveland. The same.
•Portland, Oregon. The same, with the added problem of it also always raining in Portland.