BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Birmingham's contemporary amenities, including restaurants, Good People Brewery and Railroad Park, make it a city in a renaissance, according to the latest edition of National Geographic Traveler magazine.

Birmingham is featured in the April edition of the magazine in a story titled "The Comeback: Toward the Promised Land."

In it, writer Kelsey Snell describes the city's revival, including the upcoming Regions Field and award-winning Railroad Park just across the street.

Snell says much has changed in the 50 years since the height of the city's civil rights era and violence of the 1960s.

"Streets that once reeled with riots now embrace community, from contemporary Art Folk Gallery to Second Avenue hot spots like El Barrio with its graffiti-style mural and tequila-spiked cheese dip," according to the article.