Sentences with phrase «cities built on»

The exhibition, in the Project Space, includes work related to Shenzhen (China), Chandigarh (India), Brasilia (Brazil) and UK New Towns, such as Harlow, Thamesmead, Runcorn and Stevenage, providing a context for cities built on land with no previous significant population.

Coastal regions of continents or larger islands will also be in harm's way, particularly towns or cities built on barrier islands and the fertile flat plains that typically surround river deltas.

Suburban Norilsk, one of the few cities built on permafrost (Image: Sergey Maximishin / Panos Pictures)

He attacked the very economic foundations of a city built on money exchange / priestly sacrificial power.

Thomas expands these words thus: «a city built on a high mountain and fortified can not fall and can not remain hidden» (32).

A people who have been pushed to the periphery from their farmland, as a result of the Herodian policy of city building on agricultural lands, the peasants found themselves against the arduous task of making an inhospitable land fit for cultivation.

Too many of the most favored and powerful have abandoned the Puritan ideal of the «city built on a hill» (language to which Ronald Reagan once appealed) and aspire to living in a mansion behind walls, where they can act out the anarchic fantasy of doing what pleases them.

In the case of Windham, N.H., for instance, the city of about 12,000 recently choose a contract to power all of its city buildings on renewable energy.

The study sheds further light on what can happen if cities build on the growing interest in car - share programs and other alternatives to car ownership, indicating that self - driving technology could be a game - changer.

The shading represents permafrost cover during the 1960 - 1990 reference period, the orange squares indicate three cities build on continuous permafrost, which will face varying risks to their infrastructure depending on the level of warming.

I wish I'd get to go to the beach more often, despite the fact that I'm always close to the sea as I live in a city built on water.

Can you imagine a range of iconic city buildings on sweatshirt dresses?

Steeped in history and politics, Washington, DC is a multi-faceted city built on networking strong relationships, and yet some overworked interns, politicos, and lobbyists find themselves married to their work and going home alone.

Rain beats against the windows of a downtown New York City building on a soporific Friday morning.

The new City builds on the good points of the old car and offers what people in this segment want.

In a city built on legends, the truth is hard to find.

As a sorcerous plague sweeps the city and demons stalk the streets, Isyllt must decide who she's prepared to betray, before the city built on bones falls into blood and fire.

Remember that you're just outside of Washington, DC, a city built on top of a swamp once upon a time.

But Tulum is the only Mayan city built on the coast (80 miles south of Cancun), and it boasts a drop - dead gorgeous beach.

A blue collar city built on the bluffs of America's greatest river - the Mississippi.

Have a guided tour at the only Mayan city built on the seashore.

The remarkable network of canals, most of which were laid out during that period, are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a canal cruise is one of the best ways to see this city built on waterways.

Afternoon Cádiz walking tour, a fortified city built on a rock and surrounded by the sea.

Tulum remains popular because of its elegant setting on sheer limestone cliffs above the turquoise splendour of the crashing Caribbean, the only Mayan city built on the coast.

Begin on the North Island in Auckland, a cosmopolitan city built on volcanic hills overlooking scenic Waitemata Harbour.

Then, fly to Auckland, New Zealand, a cosmopolitan city built on volcanic hills overlooking scenic Waitemata Harbour.

Xunantunich Mayan Ruins — Located in Belize's western Cayo District, Xunantunich is an ancient city built on a hill overlooking the Mopan River.

From the city built on a bed of hot springs, to the kingdom of Straga, and even Kor's home village, each destination is unique in its own right — aside from the copy / paste layout of each boating port location.

Hover takes you to ECP17, also called Hover City, a high - tech city built on a distant planet where the Great Admin established a strong dictatorship and banned any kind of entertainment.

Birmingham is also a city built on immigration, making it a melting pot of cultures, with influences from Ireland, the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent weaving their way into the fabric of the city and being reflected in everything from the music to the architecture to the grub.

Through Rand's photography, California Captured provides a seductive read of a city built on modern tales and fantasy through the architecture that defined a new style of contemporary living.

In Norilsk, the largest city built on permafrost, about 60 percent of buildings have been damaged by permafrost thaw, and 10 percent of the houses in the city have been abandoned.

Remember that you're just outside of Washington, DC, a city built on top of a swamp once upon a time.

Not exact matches

He would have driven onto your field in a stacking machine called a Stinger — built on the chassis of a New York City trash truck — and asked if you'd like help with your bales.

As soon as they see a roaring success in the city, they want to put you and your business on the road and have you build copies and clones throughout the state or the country - whether it makes the slightest sense for you to do so or not.

Located in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, the buildings in the 16th - century city of Trinidad reflect the natural environment — sugarcane green, ocean blue, and sunshine yellow — sometimes all mixed together on the same building.

The City of Perth Library and Public Plaza and the State Buildings have shared the George Temple Poole award at the WA Architecture Awards held on July 1.

And most remarkably, although Cape Town sits on a long seacoast hugging the southern Atlantic Ocean, officials delayed building desalination plants for the city.

At 5:30 a.m. on a Friday in April, Calvin Buari pulls up to a New York City apartment building in the Bronx.

FedEx on Saturday canceled plans to build a new distribution center in Indiana after deciding that «automation and technological enhancements» at other centers have rendered the one planned in the city of Greenwood unnecessary.

«We had built two major ops buildings on Olympic Boulevard with [Executive Life], we had a portfolio of nearly 10,000 apartment projects around the country we had acquired with them, we were overseeing 570 [general services administration] and post-office buildings with them, and we had about 800 co-ops in New York City with them,» Mark explains.

SEATTLE — Amazon has halted construction planning on a new high - rise building near its headquarters while it awaits the outcome of a Seattle city proposal to tax worker hours.

May 2 (Reuters)- Amazon.com Inc said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses.

May 2 - Amazon.com Inc said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses.

«I'm not exaggerating when I say AVs will have as big an impact on our cities and society as the arrival of the first cars over 100 years ago,» says Barrie Kirk, head of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE), which is striving to build an ecosystem of organizations to supply the market's needs.

One thing that remains to be seen is how local regulators will respond, especially in cities like New York where it's illegal to rent out one's full unit in an apartment building on Airbnb for less than 30 days.

Serena Williams poses with the US Open Trophy on top of the Empire State Building during the 2014 US Open New York City Trophy Tour on September 8, 2014 in New York City.

There's no guarantee of a job after the program finishes for participants, nor any obligation for them to stay on in the city, but Greene Groves hopes that spending a year in Detroit will help convince participants to build longer - term ties to the city.

Ninety - three of the smart city projects are focused on transportation, according to SCMP, and could potentially use its connected infrastructure to build the number of driverless cars and shared - driving models on the road.

Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.