Coming up, a new tourist attraction for New Orleans: neighborhoods devasted by Hurricane Katrina.

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That's the bright idea of a team of researchers from MIT, anyway, and it's now been shortlisted in a competition designed to find a new tourist attraction to be built in London for the 2012 Olympics.

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The crossing had become a tourist attraction, but the New South Wales government said it was a safety hazard.

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It was then handed over to a new charitable trust, The Auckland Castle Trust, who have redeveloped the site into a heritage tourist attraction.

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