'Ghetto' tour showcases Chicago projects

CHICAGO - The yellow school bus rumbles through vacant lots and past demolished buildings, full of people who have paid $20 for a tour of what was once among the most dangerous areas of this or any other city in the United States.

CitySkip: Ancient Rome brought back to life

Ancient Rome has been brought back to life through a unique digital reconstruction project, said to be the world's biggest computer simulation.

CitySkip: City’s White Elephant Now Looks Like a Transit Workhorse

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., June 4 — During its troubled years of construction and testing in the early 1970s, the Personal Rapid Transit system that snakes through this hilly college town was derided as a fiasco and a waste of money that perhaps should be dynamited rather than...

CitySkip: A New Television Campaign, Starring the Bronx as a Tourist’s Deli...

Television viewers in the New York region will learn about a new and intriguing tourist destination this month. It is an exotic land the size of Paris, an urban retreat that gave the world not only hip-hop but also Billy Joel, and is home to a zoo, a baseball stadium and a...

CitySkip: Hidden Tokyo

"...Hidden nightspots have become all the rage among a certain Tokyo set — weaned on anime and text messaging — that has graduated from dancing under the strobe lights at big Western-style nightclubs. Infused with a knowing, postmodern nostalgia for pre-Sony Tokyo, these...