Sentences with phrase «like city grids»

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He also pointed out that in addition to the military aspect of US operations in the country, other parts of the US government like the State Department and USAID are also active in reconciliation efforts, recovering water access, and rebuilding the power grids in destroyed towns and cities.

«In the haphazard sprawl of a city, only the astronomically rich and walled - off can pretend that our human ideas of order — like the geometric grid of roads laid over the Great Plains, or the forced cleanliness of suburban shopping centers — are stable.

Each stimulation the baby encounters helps forge a path, or circuit, between her brain cells, like building roads or an electrical grid that connects neighborhoods, communities and cities.

Her brain's power grid was overloaded, so the result was like summer in the city when everyone's running an air conditioner: the lights flicker, and then go out.

On my free days, I like to mosey around my little patch of this grid - plan city, humbly known as Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Well for starters, for anyone who's gone on a whirlwind tour of New York before, you'll likely undoubtedly recall the world's most dizzying roundabout (hence the Circle), which doesn't make a whole lot of sense in a city of grid - like streets, but that's New York for you — it doesn't have to make sense.

Micro and macro scale are constructed along similar lines in Blackhat: Helicopter shots of grid - like cities evoke earlier sequences of moving around microchips, the bright moving lights of cars convey the sense of people moving through cities as sequences of code move around the web.

It irradiates like a glow - worm, as if plugged into the city grid.

The kits are influenced by the architectural features on the respective cities, with the New York bag inspired by the city's grid - like streets, avenues and iconic yellow taxis, and the Melbourne kits reflecting the city's 19th century buildings, the Yarra river and the coastline.

This feels like a proper Portuguese city, with an airport and ring road surrounding a grid - pattern layout of narrow streets lined with whitewashed buildings.

The turn - based game lets you square off in cities made of eight - by - eight grids, and like FTL it has elegant mechanics layered on top of each other to provide context (and progression) for the battles.

Each mission takes place on a small boardgame - like grid, which represents a city - sized space, but can be crossed by your mechs in as little as two turns.

Nicholas Sack's black and white photographs of office workers in and around the City of London show isolated individuals set against the imposing grid - like architecture of modern London.

Especially noteworthy and striking are the «Night Landings» paintings, such as «Night Landings: Sambura» (1970), with the city grid glinting below like a dark jewel in a deep, nocturnal blue river valley.

In similar fashion, Rooftop Routine played on the limitations of the camera in capturing the sequences of all the movements in one shot, and viewers of the film are left to imagine the communal experience and the visual rhythms of the hula hoopers with their circular movements against the grid - like views of the city.

When São Paulo's ban on outdoor advertising went into effect in 2007, it left the city's billboards looking something like Jessica Mein's paintings: sun - blanched color fields with the scaffolds showing through, like perspective grids held up to the sky.

Enraptured by the pulse of the city and its grid - like navigation structure, he began to make paintings that revealed the energy of people living their urban lives with hints that all wasn't as wonderful as it might seem.

Koolhaas believes the grid pattern has wrought a city based on «congestion for congestion's sake,» and skyscrapers that are like «a city in a building.»

A few elements I've evinced from Smith's past exhibitions and around the city (including his painted - directly - on - the - wall installation at Deitch in Long Island City): gestural subject matter (fish, leaves, his name), seriality (in canvas size, subject matter, and hanging — like his 2011 show at Luhring Augustine featured panel grids), synthesized flatness and depth (the mixed - media compositions in his 2009 show Currents resembled large - scale flatbed scans, while neighboring canvases maintained every brushy, gloopy instance of Smith's hacity (including his painted - directly - on - the - wall installation at Deitch in Long Island City): gestural subject matter (fish, leaves, his name), seriality (in canvas size, subject matter, and hanging — like his 2011 show at Luhring Augustine featured panel grids), synthesized flatness and depth (the mixed - media compositions in his 2009 show Currents resembled large - scale flatbed scans, while neighboring canvases maintained every brushy, gloopy instance of Smith's haCity): gestural subject matter (fish, leaves, his name), seriality (in canvas size, subject matter, and hanging — like his 2011 show at Luhring Augustine featured panel grids), synthesized flatness and depth (the mixed - media compositions in his 2009 show Currents resembled large - scale flatbed scans, while neighboring canvases maintained every brushy, gloopy instance of Smith's hand).

Selected Group Exhibitions Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, La., Artists Who Wish They Were Dead, Curated by Dan Tague, 2011 Dock 6, Chicago, Curated by Hinge Gallery, 2011 Dock 6, Chicago, Curated by Edra Soto, 2010 Perimeter gallery, Chicago, SOFA Art Chicago, 2009 Bridge Art, Miami Art Basel Miami, 2008 Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, P1 Project, 2008 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, The Figure, 2008 KK Projects, New Orleans, Interior Ritual, 2008 Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Choice Cuts, 2008 Polish Museum of America, Chicago, J - Walking, 2007 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Circumstantial Landscape, 2007 Fort Morgan Gallery, Chicago, Group Exhibition, 2006 Giola Gallery, Chicago, No Place Like Home, 2005 Open End Gallery, Chicago, Around the Coyote, 2005 Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, New Paintings by John Davis and Jeff Forsythe, 2005 Zone Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Brave New Abstraction, 2004 Open End Gallery, Chicago, Brave New Abstraction, 2003 Jonathon Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, No Dead Artists, 2003 Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, State of Grace, 2003 Canal Street Light Project, New Orleans, 2003 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Grids and Correlations, 2002 Steve Martin Gallery, New Orleans, Brave New Abstraction, 2002 Pickery Gallery, New Orleans, Art in the Dark, 2002 Pickery Gallery, New Orleans, Post-Suburbia: The New Utopia, 2002 Galerie IM Andesphoff, Innsbruck, Austria, Artists Exchange, 2001 Pickery Gallery, New Orleans, The Waste Land, 2001

Going back to Mondrian for a minute, the Broadway Boogie Woogie painting that stuck out in your head is laid out like a grid, referencing the city landscape.

The height of one of the grid boxes does not represent a skyscraper... People will distribute themselves as they like, but, they will concentrate in the city because that's what they do now.

Similarly to Barcelona, the Australian city is mapped out like a grid.

[T] hat cities with more rigid grid - like street patterns (that is, a higher local order) tended to display a higher temperature difference between their urban and rural areas.

Named the City, the compact home can be outfitted to run on or off - the - grid and, like Escape's Vista C, can also optionally be installed onto a trailer for easy towing.

The virtue of the diversity grid is that it answers an important question for non-majority job candidates: «What concrete evidence is there that someone like me can get hired and promoted at this particular law firm in this particular city?»

Nest settings can be operated by individual users (who can set baselines for water or electricity use) and integrated with data from institutional hubs like the National Weather Service or a city's electrical grid.