A canal flanked by elevated roads of the Airport Expressway, just outside the NE corner of the ring roads, Beijing

Xingping town near Yangshuo - Xingping is an ancient town full of Ming and Qing era buildings and houses and little quiet lanes, all with the backdrop of the area's crazy karst peaks

Streetside restaurant, Old Town, Shanghai

Kicking back with a jar of tea, Shanghai style... in the Old Town

Tanner Springs Park at NW 10th Ave & Marshall St in Portland's Pearl District, constructed in 2004, initial concept and park planning by Peter Walker & Partners, design by Atelier Dreiseitl and GreenWorks, P.C. - 0.92 acres (0.37 Ha)

The Experience Music Project by Frank Gehry with the tracks of Seattle's kooky monorail sweeping through the building at the end of its 1 mile route

Doorway of one of the elegant apartment buildings along Shaker Boulevard just east of Shaker Square in Cleveland - most were built in the 1920's and 1930's

Shaker Square station in Cleveland - this is the point where the street level blue and green light rail lines of the RTA (Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority aka Rapid) join and head downtown together below grade in a cutting - the streetcar lines were designed as part of the Square itself as a kind of commercial gateway to the large streetcar-based Shaker Heights development the 1920's and 30's

Decorated bicycle rickshaw on Baldwin east of Beverley, Toronto - imported from India or Bangladesh apparently

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, one of Arthur Erickson's most famous works, located on top of Burnaby Mountain - this is the quandrangle