Sentences with phrase «cities by their inhabitants»

Whether we observe the formation of cities by their inhabitants or the formation of inhabitants by the cities in which they live, we recognize the city as a primary dilemma, a tension that is prevalent in all the works on view.»

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«The entire life of this city depends on Rusal,» said Evgeny Ivanov, until recently a foreman at the plant in Sayanogorsk, where pockmarked asphalt recalls the harsh winters endured by its 60,000 inhabitants, and icy blue mountains line the horizon.

The city also wants to encourage its inhabitants to travel by bicycle, by public transportation or on foot, and its urban planning revolves around this.

The «immoral» city which is controlled by a satanic character, won't allow its inhabitants to take drugs and is much better organized.

They show in the halt which was put to the water privatisation project in Montreal by the water co-ordination and in the foundation of a city of 30,000 inhabitants in the surroundings of Lima (Villa San Salvador), inspired by the principles of full employment, housing for all and a priority for public transport.

Jerusalem was a relatively small city, estimated by some to have had no more than twenty - five thousand inhabitants.

Italy has a rich Catholic culture and hosts the Vatican City, a small (about 800 inhabitants) ecclesiastical state ruled by the Pope.

The population of the city grew by 30 %, so the city also attracted new inhabitants.

In ascertaining the power of any city having less than one hundred twenty - five thousand inhabitants according to the latest federal census to contract indebtedness, indebtedness heretofore contracted by such city for education purposes shall be excluded.

Give West the raw census data from your city — regardless of its history or geography — and he can tell you everything from the number of gas stations in it to the number of patents produced by its inhabitants.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

The inhabitants of Birmingham live by the same double - edged sword as many other large cities: On one hand there are plenty of people from diverse backgrounds and occupations for you to meet, but on the other, city - dwellers who are hardworking, educated and successful tend to have little free time when it comes to socialising and meeting new people.

Physically, the city is intact, but the Christian inhabitants, battered first by Soviet forces attacking from the east, in 1939, and then by the Nazis attacking from the west, in 1941, have become largely indifferent, dead - souled, intent on survival and nothing else.

The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest (Paul Bettany) from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled - in dystopian cities ruled by the Church.

The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled - in dystopian cities ruled by the Church.

The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic was presented to Metro Manila, co-written and directed by Sean Ellis — Seeking a better life, Oscar and his family move from the poverty - stricken rice fields to the big city of Manila, where they fall victim to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of city survival.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Depp is Tonto, sporting goofy headgear topped by a giant stuffed crow, and Armie Hammer is the Lone Ranger, a city - educated lawyer who returns to his small Texas hometown in 1869 to civilize the inhabitants and ends up teaming with Tonto to battle the nefarious Cavendish gang after his Ranger brother is killed.

With the heiress to the throne seemingly kidnapped by those who plotted the Empress» demise, the door is open for unscrupulous forces to use this orchestrated political turmoil as a way of achieving their goal of completely decimating the poor, plague ridden slums of the city and their inhabitants.

Meanwhile, an invasion above New York City is led by the Dimension X inhabitant known as Krang.

The Manukau Family Literacy Program, run by the City of Manukau Education Trust, is based in the island nation's third - largest city, which has a significant concentration of Maoris (the country's first inhabitants) and Pacific Islanders who have had little formal schoolCity of Manukau Education Trust, is based in the island nation's third - largest city, which has a significant concentration of Maoris (the country's first inhabitants) and Pacific Islanders who have had little formal schoolcity, which has a significant concentration of Maoris (the country's first inhabitants) and Pacific Islanders who have had little formal schooling.

The titular city is a mythical land based on feudal China, forever unnamed by its inhabitants, but named over and over by the armies that conquer it, only to lose it to the following army.

Of course its inhabitants were profoundly affected by this international attention, but one lasting legacy is the unhurried cosmopolitanism of the city.

The beautiful islands, mountains and waterways incongruously collide with a city that has been worn down by domestic immigration: only in the last 20 years has Ushuaia been a tourist hotspot and it is clear that the current inhabitants have done little to preserve the natural beauty of the land.

At present, it is staged in several sacred places of the city of Cusco, the main one being the Esplanade of Saqsaywaman, in an impressive artistic display, with beautiful choreographies and costumes which give a special touch to the Sanctuary of Saqsaywaman which is visited every 24th of June, by a multitude of Cusco's inhabitants, as well as by a great number of foreign and national visitors who give a higher level to the Íncas» most important festivity.

Today it has been awarded the title of a City of Literature by UNESCO for its inhabitants» contributions to writing.

Our tour is focused on bringing you closer to the «real life» Spain, away from the large bustling cities, and into an assortment of medieval villages and larger towns of major historical and cultural interest that were influenced over the centuries by the numerous inhabitants of Spain including the Celt - Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, Moors, Sephardic Jews, and Christians.

If you think about it, in a city that is so close to the Pacific Ocean, water sports should be practiced by nearly all its inhabitants.

In any event the monuments left behind by the city's inhabitants of Chichen Itza are some of the most spectacular in the New World and it's a place not to be missed if you are in the Yucatan.

This traditional and historic home was built and named by Bert Boulton, one of the famous inhabitants of Turangi who wanted a quiet escape from the bustle of large city life.

Sometimes, part of the pleasure of travel is to get closer to the real city and its inhabitants by staying in a small hotel run by locals.

You take control of one of the four factions that must delve into the ruined city of Mordheim, a truly bleak environment that was hit by a comet which killed the inhabitants and also deposited a strange glowing green stone around the streets, the very material you now seek; Wyrdstone.

Set in a drug - fuelled, retro - futuristic city in an alternative 1960s England, you'll have to blend in with its other inhabitants, who don't take kindly to people who don't abide by their not - so - normal rules.»

Penny Arcade illustrator Mike «Gabe» Krahulik contributed this piece, the second installation for 2K Games's BioShock 2 artist series, a collection of works from renown artists inspired by the underwater city of Rapture and its inhabitants.

Recognizing the draw that BioShock's distinctive atmosphere and character designs has on artists, 2K Games announced its BioShock 2 artist series, a collection of works from several artists inspired by the underwater city of Rapture and its inhabitants.

This curse is the eery punishment, imposed by the wise Nature for greed and avidity of the city inhabitants.

They left Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, Jackie Winsor's Burned Piece and Exploded Piece, Lynda Benglis with her Night Sherbet of poured polyurethane foam, Michelle Stuart with canvases of graphite and earth, Suzanne Harris's Inhabitant, and Wheatfield by Agnes Denes — long since harvested of its thousand pounds to give way to the luxury rentals of Battery Park City.

2010 Light from Light, curated by Kim Machan, MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Shanghai The Milk Drop Coronet, Camera Austria, Graz Novel, dependance, Bruxelles The Pursuer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York The Evryali Score, David Zwirner, New York The Baghdad Batteries, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution, arranged by Front Desk Apparatus, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles Josef Strau and Clegg & Guttman, Pro Choice, Vienna and Jerusalem The Inhabitants, Vilma Gold, London

According to the story, Superman was sent to Earth as a baby to escape the planet's annihilation, and despite the fact that the villain Braniac shrunk the city and placed it in a bottle, Superman is able to keep the miniature city and its inhabitants alive by piping in Krypton's atmosphere.

This figure takes to the streets — of London, in the case of Poe's protagonist — wandering far and wide with no fixed itinerary, and gathers clues to the nature of modern experience by observing the physical fabric of the burgeoning industrial city, its inhabitants and their public activities.

Most salient throughout both exhibitions is that architectural forms in either city have continued to affect and be affected by their present usage — even if the demands of its inhabitants come at the expense of the building itself.

2010Light from Light, curated by Kim Machan, MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Shanghai The Milk Drop Coronet, Camera Austria, Graz Novel, Dependance, Brussels Today I Made Nothing, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York The Pursuer, Greene Naftali, NY The Evryali Score, David Zwirner, NY The Baghdad Batteries, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City At Home / Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hesel Museum of Art, Annandale on Hudson, NY Negation / Sybtraction / Dissolution, arranged by Front Desk Apparatus, Kantor Gallery, LA The Day Grew Dark, a lecture by Juliette Blightman from the «no re-admittance» series featuring Josef Strau, Chantal Akerman, Axel Wieder and New Order, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart Josef Strau and Clegg & Guttman: Vienna and Jerusalem, Pro Choice, Wien The Inhabitants, Vilma Gold, London

London must be one of the most «captured» cities in the world, with artists continually inspired by its architecture, inhabitants and skyline.

After exploring graffiti and spaces with his Writing the City series, photographer David Lurie has a new book out that further explores the relationship of the city and its inhabitants: Undercity - The Other Cape Town, published by Hatje CantCity series, photographer David Lurie has a new book out that further explores the relationship of the city and its inhabitants: Undercity - The Other Cape Town, published by Hatje Cantcity and its inhabitants: Undercity - The Other Cape Town, published by Hatje Cantz...

The inhabitants of Kolding's collages are alternatively shown observing — isolated — amused — rebelling — frequently stifled in a never - ending game of cultural one - upsmanship, bounded on all sides by the city's engulfing map.

However this term also fits into the methodology and conceptual practice associated with the artist's ongoing Autoconstrucción project, inspired by the resourceful and ingenious collaborative building techniques employed by the inhabitants of Colonia Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico City.

Nowadays, by painting large murals of the faces of famous and anonymous people on the streets of Lebanon, Tunisia, Singapore, Dubai and France he tells the story of the city and communicates with its inhabitants.

Linking these artworks together is the question of whether cities are shaped by their inhabitants, or if inhabitants are shaped by the cities in which they live.

In 2003, along with his friends from the Eza Possibles collective, Tshindele initiated the «Kinshasa Wenze Wenze», an event that involved producing sculptural works from recovered wrecked cars found across the city as a way of addressing the deteriorating state of the city, and the difficulties faced by its inhabitants.

His ongoing project, Time After Time Capsule, consists of ten enormous kawaii time capsules to be filled with items personalised by the inhabitants of ten cities worldwide.