Birmingham in Pictures VII

Following in my series showing photographs of the many faces of Birmingham, http://birminghamcentral.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Birmingham%20in%20pictures, here is another set of pictures showing the diverse city.  The city's attraction has recently been highlighted to UK audiences with an influential New York travel magazine extolling it's virtues, http://nymag.com/travel/2013/winter/birmingham-england/,  against those who've ignored it.  The article has certainly aroused interest and following on the footsteps of BBC drama Peaky Blinders the city's never had a better chance to shine and shake off the misconceptions of it's earlier industrial past, 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/forget-london-visit-birmingham-new-york-magazine-tells-readers-that-englands-second-city-outdoes-the-capital-8916466.html; http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/birmingham-beats-london-tourism-uk-2657399