Sentences with phrase «from urban metropolises»

It offers everything from urban metropolises and sunny beaches to mountain peaks and jungle retreats.

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They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

Using maps dating as far back as 1833, the researchers modeled the urban sprawl process as Groane developed from agricultural land into a residential and industrial area, and then into a postindustrial suburb of the Milanese metropolis.

Nick has held fellowships from the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, the University of Chicago's Urban Network, and the Chicago Center for Teaching.

From the book jacket: Elizabeth Gaffney's Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of New York in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.

Atlanta might be an urban metropolis, but it's only about 90 miles from the Blue Ridge Mountains, so pack some hiking gear and comfortable walking shoes so you can explore the surrounding natural attractions.

The 49 rooms in the western wing draw their inspiration from local personalities and present Frankfurt as an urban metropolis.

A region rich in culture, history and natural beauty, China is home to ancient civilisations and a plethora of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and offers the intriguing juxtaposition of contemporary urban metropolises with rural escapes, from the legendary peaks and gorges of Lijiang to the boutiques and museums of Beijing

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

The 16 mm film collage, Wikipolis, juxtaposes a scene from Metropolis, Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 film on urban dystopia, with an image of a former nuclear bunker in Stockholm that now houses a data centre with 8,000 computer servers, two of which belong to WikiLeaks.

In particular, Hatakeyama has routinely returned to the Tokyo - Yokohama metropolis, exploring this ever - evolving urban sprawl from both below and above, mapping the growth and expansion of these sites over time.

Here's one question from me: How can New York City (and other urban hubs in industrialized countries) provide a template for developing countries building their own metropolises?

This gave us 116 stations from a total of 47 urban metropolises (a lot of the metropolises had more than one station).