In Tampa, a whole elevated highway that ran past the venue was closed to all traffic for a week.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

They want to replace the viaduct with a bigger, sturdier elevated highway.

ECONOMIST: City planning: Tunnel vision | The

Calatrava has also proposed dismantling an elevated highway along the water and extending a plaza nearby, although this has not yet been approved by city officials.

BBC: The futurist: Rio��s Museum of Tomorrow

Rio's first skyscraper, a 1930s Art Deco gem that lost its luster when the port-side elevated highway was built next to it, is being refurbished by its owners.

WSJ: Rio Hopes for an Olympic-Style Revival

The project will see the demolition of an elevated highway, the planting of 15, 000 trees and construction of the Museum of Tomorrow, designed by Santiago Calatrava and set to open in 2014.

BBC: Living in: Rio de Janeiro

On a sweltering afternoon in March, Eoin Slavin, an executive at Rio-based development firm Landis, wandered the mostly forgotten working-class neighborhoods in the shadow of the elevated highway searching for prospects.

WSJ: Rio Hopes for an Olympic-Style Revival

Bonaventure Highway, an elevated eyesore that cuts between Old Montreal and its southwestern neighbour Griffintown, is currently being dismantled.

BBC: A new look for Old Montreal