Sentences with phrase «many modern city»

The «central paradox» of the modern city, Glaeser contends, is that «proximity has become ever more valuable as the cost of connecting across long distances has fallen.»

Queensland is implementing light rail like most modern cities.

Google wants to reinvent the modern city — so it launched a new independent company, called Sidewalk Labs, to do just that.

Costa Rica may truly have it all: a year - round tropical climate, modern cities, Caribbean beaches, Pacific coastline, rain forests, lush valleys, and mountains.

Chicago's sales tax rate will hit a whopping 10.25 percent next year, and just in time for Oscar Mayer to move into its new digs in the AON Center near Millennium Park, the Chicago City Council passed the largest property tax increase in modern city history.

We come together in proximity in our modern cities.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

In his modern city hall office we listened as Khalaf alternately boasted of the future West Bank state and deplored Israeli actions that appear to go counter to that future.

Unfortunately, the design and function of modern cities are not equally hospitable to both; they overwhelmingly tend to favor opportunity, often at the expense of community.

James Dougherty of the University of Notre Dame describes the modern city as «never silent; it speaks with a voice of its own, the voice of false prophets in Jerusalem, of sophists in Athens and Carthage, of gramophones and television in London and Wichita.

We simply do not know what community would look like in a modern city because our deepest cultural experience with it comes from the 19th century, in the small - town, face - to - face relationships of an agrarian economy.

As cities boomed in late - nineteenth - century America, Evangelicals discovered innovative ways to meet the overwhelming challenge of modern cities.

The communists absurdly boast of their material success; at one point, characters describe shoebox Eastern Bloc cars as the world's best, and Bucharest as «one of the most modern cities in the world.»

Her book was refreshingly un-abstract and densely empirical, built upon an accumulation of lovingly rendered details about what works and doesn't work in modern city life.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

Modern city man often loses sight of the star of his own worth and meaning.

It sought new light in God's Word for the people in the slums of modern cities and found sufficient insight to revolutionize the city ministry.

They may get together in the modern city to hold a bake sale for some charitable cause, to repair a playground, to clean up the environment, or for a million other purposes that their social imaginations might lead them to.

He brought the American experiment to the modern city — unseriously, of course.

The beginning of the movie illustrates a sharp contrast between the bustling modern city and the simpler village life of an African bush tribe.

When I visited SF a few years ago, we walked up to Coit Tower via the Greenwich Steps and then back down the Filbert Steps - those gardens blew me away, they were so lush and beautiful - what a gorgeous thing to have in the middle of a modern city...

Bangkok is a huge, modern city and they now import just about everything you can imagine.

The Tyrol and the Europa are big, modern city hotels across from the railroad station.

Nature has a funny way of jogging the historical memory through all the asphalt and astroturf of modern cities.

Grozny is also, architecturally, a modern city as it has been rebuilt after the wars with Russia in the 1990s, and the new signings of 2017 have shown their amazement of their new home on social media, posting photos and videos of the vibrant skyline and fancy nightlife which is on offer to the new stars of the city.

Most modern cities are stroller friendly.

Having a baby changes one's life, and current culture in modern cities just does not provide the network of support mothers need.

All agreed it was a wonderful program, although Cuba itself was found to be a country of contradictions and beauty: from the modern city of Havana to the oxen working the fields; comfortable air - conditioned bus to people travelling by horseback along the highways; from tiny Bee Hummingbirds to giant anoles.

Help you escape the hustle and bustle of modern city.

Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio also appealed to the President to expedite actions to turn Jamestown into a modern city in order to bring economic activity to the area.

Indeed, Osogbo had come a long way from the old rural town, to a growing modern city, gradually holding its own in serenity and winning infrastructure, drawing new businesses across different sectors.

Yet if the young are demonised in rural England, as Butterworth's play suggests, they are under even greater threat of containment or dispersal in the modern city, where the presence of young people in groups is today perceived to be a social problem.

The city has been described by tourism pundits as «The city of flavor ««The city of health ««A peaceful modern city» «A multi faith city» The 8500 year history of Izmir has witnessed many civilization.

They had dinner at the Modern City Hotel in Tamale where they were treated to a live band music.

Researchers at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy, University of Leeds, and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been developing a range of high - technology ways to see and think about the modern city.

The genesis of the tension, as we know, could be traced to the confusion at Modern City hotel in Tamale, where Bugri Naabu stormed and disrupted a meeting organised by Madam Otiko for some women, after an alleged dispute over the appointment of a Northern Regional Coordinator for the School Feeding Programme.

Over time, the Aztecs and then the Spanish filled in the lake, creating the basis of the modern city.

Therefore dandelions have become a symbol for survival in modern cities.

As the effects of climate change continue to reduce modern cities» water supplies, wealthy modern countries are also investing in desalination technologies.

Scientists and architects across the globe are trying to adapt this ancient building material for the demands of the modern city.

Scientists and architects across the globe are trying to adapt wood, one of the oldest building materials, for the demands of the modern city.

But, says the Red Cross, those rules and customs — such as not bombing hospitals or shooting nurses — can not protect civilians in modern cities.

In the U.S., modern cities have become unanimous with skyscrapers and busy skylines, but with a modern twist.

In the 1680s, for example, physician Christoph Knauth, who was interested in botany, recorded the plant species that occurred in the area of the modern city of Halle.

In short, it appears that our technology has created ways of accelerating change (genetic engineering, for instance) and new habitats (like the modern city), essentially fracturing our biology and transforming our future as a species.

We first excavated two rural sites — Capilco and Cuexcomate — southwest of the modern city of Cuernavaca.

But William Parker at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, doesn't think endotoxin can explain why modern city - dwellers have such overactive immune systems.

Modern cities seem to be perpetually teetering at the brink of one crisis or another, be it chemical or microbial in origin.

This phenomenon affects the atmosphere, surface, and subsurface of modern cities.

Indeed, the text described a red light in the night sky above Songdo, the modern city of Kaesong.