Sentences with phrase «by urban metropolises»

A recent series, The Prophecy, channels his concern for environmental issues and pollution caused by urban metropolises.

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Today, he says, that same place is a glitzy urban center, populated by skyscrapers that can rival, if not surpass, any of those that tower above the ground in the world's largest metropolises.

Unfortunately, by concentrating almost exclusively on the inner city, and inner city New York in particular, Gods of the City contributes to a preoccupation with the major metropolises (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) that has characterized most scholarship on urban religion.

Rowing down the Thames for four or five days and staying in hotels, pubs, the boat itself or camping out by the river path is an experience in urban calm that even residents of this thriving metropolis hardly realised was possible.

White Moon Bar by Hotel H2O is an urban professional's bayside escape from the metropolis.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Born in Rio de Janeiro and resident in São Paulo since the 1990s, her works have been shaped by the influences of the urban metropolises on the rural environment.

Made at bus stops throughout the city, the large - scale black and white photographs capture the isolation of the urban metropolis through formally composed and carefully detailed views of desolate boulevards disappearing into the horizon, peopled only by the Los Angeles underclass waiting for the next bus.

Basically, an urban metropolis spreading across 67 acres, designed by eight architects, this adventure between MGM Mirage and Infinity World Development Corps (Dubai World), CityCenter consists of: