This week's issue of New York features 54 side-by-side examples of how the city's landscape has changed thanks to the real estate boom: "In the past fifteen fat years, more than 76,000 new buildings have gone up, more than 44,000 were razed, another 83,000 were radically renovated—a rate of change that evokes those time-lapse nature films in which flowers spring up and wither in a matter of seconds." [NYM]