Sentences with phrase «at modern city»

With photographs by Walker Evans, Georgy Zelma, Nathan Lerner, and Paul Strand, among others, this exhibition of works from the Smart Museum collection looks at the modern city as seen from the street.

We stayed at modern City Hotel in the heart of this area, close to the shops, bars and restaurants, the promenade and Aristotle Square.

The genesis of the tension, as we know, could be traced to the confusion at Modern City hotel in Tamale, where Bugri Naabu stormed and disrupted a meeting organised by Madam Otiko for some women, after an alleged dispute over the appointment of a Northern Regional Coordinator for the School Feeding Programme.

They had dinner at the Modern City Hotel in Tamale where they were treated to a live band music.

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Warren Buffett attends «Becoming Warren Buffett» World Premiere at The Museum of Modern Art on January 19, 2017 in New York City.

The soft laptop (encased in gel and covered with rubber, fur, and felt) and the ultra-hooked-up bed were part of a recent exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

The guestrooms and suites at Marriott Vacation Club Pulse properties echo the cosmopolitan nature of their surroundings, each with an updated, modern look and feel that reflects the personal energy and unique culture of their host cities.

CNN iReporter Julio Ortiz - Teissonniere submitted some images from a a new show currently at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City depicting a modern take on DaVinci's famous «Last Supper.»

But this building block of the global system is itself changing... Many of today's states are going to splinter or transform, and the resultant units may not be integrated nations at all, in the modern sense, but a variety of other entities from tribal federations to Third Wave city - states.11

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Unfortunately, the design and function of modern cities are not equally hospitable to both; they overwhelmingly tend to favor opportunity, often at the expense of community.

In a speech at the Progressive Policy - Institute, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros made a remarkable statement about what community means for «a modern, big American city and its relationship with a big Washington bureaucracy.»

When one looks at the most beautiful or historically important buildings in the World, they tend to be religious monuments — the pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica, the great cathedrals of Europe, Spilt Blood and St. Isaacs in Saint Petersburg, the Greek and Roman temples, the Taj Mahal, the Wots of Asia, even the modern Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and the like.

The communists absurdly boast of their material success; at one point, characters describe shoebox Eastern Bloc cars as the world's best, and Bucharest as «one of the most modern cities in the world.»

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

Thus, a mere 16 miles away from the site of modern Pentecostalism's American beginnings in 1906 at Azusa Street in downtown Los Angeles, an Episcopal church in the Van Nuys section of the city sparked a latter - day Pentecostal revival.

Its controlling metaphors of «the man at the giant switchboard» and «the man in the cloverleaf,» which were meant to symbolize the communication grid and the mobility network of the modern metropolis, seemed implausible to people who had been denied both mobility and communication, and for whom the city was often not a place of expanded freedom but the site of more sophisticated humiliations.

Kay Hymowitz is writing about modern marriage gone wrong, again, referencing Charles Murray in her essay, «American Caste», over at City Journal.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) was founded by Danny Meyer and includes some of New York City's most beloved restaurants: Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke, Jazz Standard, The Modern, Cafe 2 and Terrace 5 (located at the Museum of Modern Art), Maialino, Untitled and Studio Cafe at the Whitney Museum of American Art, North End Grill, Marta, and Porchlight.

The company then heads to Singapore, opening the James Beard award - winning concept Yardbird Southern Table & Bar, known for its modern take on southern comfort fare, at the Marina Bay Sands, one of the city's most spectacular resorts.

At Francescana in the ancient city of Modena, Bottura takes traditional Italian dishes and turns them on their head with modern and innovative techniques.

Common Grains Soba Pop - Up Restaurant and Sake Bar at BREADBAR Century City · WHAT: Artisan soba makers Sonoko Sakai and Mutsuko Soma will host a pop - up soba restaurant and sake bar featuring freshly stoned and milled handcrafted soba prepared with a choice of traditional or modern ingredients and garnishes and specialty grilled onigiri.

The Capri, which is located at the opposite end of the city's main street, is also a good option if you're into midcentury - modern kitsch: The grounds are lit in blue and purple neon, and the lobby has a collection of VHS tapes you can check out to watch in your in - room VCR.

Founded by Cameron Mitchell in 1993 in Columbus, Ohio, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants LLC operates 26 restaurants under 13 different concepts, including Cameron's American Bistro, Cap City Fine Diner & Bar, Hudson 29 Kitchen + Drink, M, Marcella's, Martini Modern Italian, Mitchell's Ocean Club (Ocean Prime), Molly Woo's Asian Bistro, The Pearl, The Barn at Rocky Fork Creek, The Guild House, The Avenue Steak Tavern and Cameron Mitchell Premier Events in Columbus.

There have been various theories and the most common has been the financial aspect of the modern game, with Wenger having his spending restricted at the same time as Chelsea and Man City were pushing the boundaries of spending to breaking point.

The city pioneered the «centers concept» in modern urban planning, and when Reyner Banham wrote his classic study of LA's social - architectural geography, he famously relegated downtown to a brief afterthought «note» at the end of the book.

At first blush, I had him pegged as a modern, updated Edie Sedgwick, New York City's mascot frog preening and posing for a selfie while being publicly boiled to death in our pot of water.

New York's baseball moguls (at least in the National League) seem convinced that the town has no future; its Thoroughbred racing executives are still thrashing through costly difficulties in an attempt to bring the city a modern «dream track.»

Guardiola and City might look like losers this season, but at least they are trying to change City's football style to modern football, like what Pochettino did to Tottenham.

I too also know that we look weak at the back but i also believe they have learnt from there mistakes last season and have a stronger unity this season going into the 3rd season with the team wenger has put together without losing key players and adding real Quality and world class that i havent seen before because none of our history says we bought our trophies we won them with all the unexpected beliefs and never bought into the society and modern game we seen before us not one of our legends were already labelled for they are today before they came to us The made a name for themselfs in our Jersey and build a foundation of what we represent today Before Arsene Wenger and with him We are a club that overachieve and under promise Everything we've done has be our very own unique way of doing it not the way other clubs are ahiceving i for one will not Follow the Man City's ambitions Chelseas Manchester united or anyone elses

Any one who knows anything at all about how the modern sham owner, board and manager work knows full well that Sanchez will be off in days or at the most a month, almost certainly to City, despite the deliberate lies — no change there then — emanating from the manager's mouth.

Rarely does a day go by in the era of modern football when we don't hear of a substantial amount of money being offered for a top quality footballer, be it from the far - eastern Chinese Super League or the Abu Dhabi - funded coffers at Manchester City.

One of the modern Manchester United legends made his debut against Coventry City on the 25th of August 1990 at Old Trafford in the old First Division.

In the modern world, however, it has been the city which has provided the role of the forest, as a space where people can appear and disappear at will, associate with whoever they choose, and where a plurality of lifestyles, beliefs, and timetables co-exist, licensed or not.

«I don't have enough sense of modern political history to fully analyze — I don't know enough honestly about the relationships between the particular governors and mayors,» Mr. de Blasio said at City Hall.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill are scheduled to discuss the year - end crime data at a news conference Thursday, an event that will likely be highlighted by a number of superlatives: the lowest number of major felonies in the modern era of police record keeping, as well as 790 shootings, the fewest in recorded city history.

At 8 a.m., the Long Island City Partnership and Modern Spaces host the LIC Summit, a forum to explore issues currently affecting Long Island City and issues that will shape the neighborhood's future, Museum of the Moving Image, 36 - 01 35th Ave., Queens.

The party — which everyone from then aspiring U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton to nearly every modern mayor in city history attended — had been held for years at the T.G.I Friday's on 42nd St.

No this answer just has too much of a modern feel to it and I know that the stories of political meddling goes back at least to the times of the greek city states.

Two community activists called on de Blasio to step down, promising more protesters in the coming weeks at City Hall — which has become a «modern day Tammany Hall.»

«I do not have enough sense of modern political history to fully analyze because I don't know enough honestly about the relationships between the particular governors and mayors,» said de Blasio during an afternoon press conference at City Hall.

Cuomo went on to say that the budget is trying to address «chronic problems that are truly disturbing,» in the city, including NYCHA and «more homeless on the street than at anytime in modern history.»

◆ Damson's — Located at the Orange Building, Media City, Salford, this reasonably priced restaurant (the set two - course menu costs # 15.95) serves up modern twists on traditional British cuisine, for example ham hock with creamed lentils and truffle, or horseradish mash teamed with pot - au - feu.

Researchers at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy, University of Leeds, and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been developing a range of high - technology ways to see and think about the modern city.

Two community activists called on Mayor de Blasio to step down Sunday, promising more protesters in the coming weeks at City Hall — which has become a «modern day Tammany...

Advisers who coordinated the trip included a former press secretary at J Street, the left - leaning Jewish group, and a top aide with a background in the city's Modern Orthodox community.

«The federal government picked the wrong New Yorker to screw with,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at the rally, held outside the Stonewall Inn, the site of the 1969 riots that marked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement.