Huge building were erected in their place.

Much architecture has been turned into rubble.

Office buildings and commuter trains and coffee shops are today s battlefields.

There are seven high rises in Moscow that Russians still call Stalin s vysotki.

We saw buildings not just the former Hamas headquarters still in rubble.

Hotels in China s provincial cities can make five star hotels in Western capitals looked shabby.

As a result, students in places where schools have not yet been built, or too few qualified teachers are available, can still get an education.

From largely unused land a generation ago, Pudong has become a booming center of skyscrapers, luxury hotels, parks, industry, and vast stretches of apartment buildings.

While paper maps can accurately portray static features like rivers and mountains, they cannot easily be updated when new buildings are constructed, roads are rerouted, or new restaurants open.

The Committee further expresses concern about the lack of effective consultations and legal redress for persons affected by forced evictions and demolitions, including those of historic structures, buildings and homes in Lhasa, Tibet.

And yet, there are hundreds and hundreds of children in the developed world who never see nature, because they're growing up in concrete and all they know is virtual reality, with no opportunity to go and lie in the sun, or in the forest, with the dappled sun specks coming down from the canopy above.

Moreover, there are plenty of ways for the construction industry to offer untold millions more people the opportunity to call some beautiful place home, simply by building more high density and high rise vacation apartment buildings there.