This process is also evident in the Dallas area, which has experienced a surge in condo construction near its urban core and some very intriguing "town center" developments, such as the Legacy project in suburban Plano.
Like any international city, Sydney has a wealth of retail outlets, but it never struck me as an intriguing shopping town until I saw this engaging guide.
In the end, we spent nearly five days of our eight-day trip in the national park, but were glad we took a circuitous route -- winding through the Davis Mountains and the intriguing little town of Fort Davis -- to get there.
For the last 10 summers, I have taught in a small writers' workshop in Spoleto, Italy, a gorgeous and endlessly intriguing Umbrian hill town, and at two weeks a summer, that adds up to five months in a single place.
Some suburbs even try to recreate European towns: an intriguing counter-example to the general pattern of divergence.Yet compared with the sharp differences between cities and rural areas, suburbs still show a residual similarity of values.
As the historian James Buchan put it, "Edinburgh's New Town is intriguing not merely as a suite of handsome buildings, but as the material expression of ideas of civilian life".
For 10 months, the windows at F.A.O. Schwarz, the once-fabled toy store and tourist attraction on Fifth Avenue, have been shrouded in paper, disappointing out-of-town visitors, intriguing retail analysts and, as the holidays approached and nothing seemed to change, alarming children with big-ticket gift lists.
But away from the heavily touristed Old Town, an intriguing contemporary art scene has developed in the last few years, one that includes the big Dox gallery, which opened without much fanfare last October, as well as dozens of more intimate spaces and a huge art biennial that is about to end its 10-week run.
Its scattered collection offers an intriguing look at the town's, and the country's, past: medieval tombstones, colorful walls of azueljos (brightly-hued tiles), statues of 15th-century monks, excavated pottery and a room dedicated to the region's significant Jewish history.
The town attracts an intriguing mix of people, from retired Americans and Canadians to young European backpackers.
