Sentences with phrase «modern city building»

SimCity laid the foundation for modern city building...

SimCity laid the foundation for modern city building...

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The rezoning of 78 blocks of east midtown Manhattan was approved by the New York City Council in August, with the goal of enabling the area's aging building stock to be replaced by more modern — and taller — office towers.

As the Japanese auto invasion began cutting into Detroit's sales, General Motors, Chrysler, Ford and hundreds of auto parts companies looked outside the city to build one - story plants that could handle modern assembly lines.

The building would be the first major development to take advantage of the Midtown East rezoning plan adopted by the city last year, which allows companies to buy air rights from other properties in the area to build larger, modern offices.

They are nearly 20 kilometers away from the modern multi-story office buildings and sprawling mansions in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja.

But this building block of the global system is itself changing... Many of today's states are going to splinter or transform, and the resultant units may not be integrated nations at all, in the modern sense, but a variety of other entities from tribal federations to Third Wave city - states.11

Jane Jacobs, generally considered the founder of modern urban design, thought cities should take the everyday needs of people into account but did not mention religion or religious buildings in her foundational book.

Upon this model of hierarchy we have built our political systems — from the Greek city - state and the Roman Empire to feudal castes, the Holy Roman Empire, and modern nations.

When one looks at the most beautiful or historically important buildings in the World, they tend to be religious monuments — the pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica, the great cathedrals of Europe, Spilt Blood and St. Isaacs in Saint Petersburg, the Greek and Roman temples, the Taj Mahal, the Wots of Asia, even the modern Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and the like.

There are excellent examples of churches from this era, such as the buildings of Eliel and Eero Saarinen in Columbus, Indiana (Tabernacle Church of Christ, 1942; North Christian, 1964), a city known for its splendidly effective embrace of modern architecture.

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.

Dominated by modern office buildings, cafes, and gyms, and swarming with Blackberry - wielding executives of financial and software companies, parts of Indian cities such as Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Gurgaon resemble European and American downtowns.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

I too also know that we look weak at the back but i also believe they have learnt from there mistakes last season and have a stronger unity this season going into the 3rd season with the team wenger has put together without losing key players and adding real Quality and world class that i havent seen before because none of our history says we bought our trophies we won them with all the unexpected beliefs and never bought into the society and modern game we seen before us not one of our legends were already labelled for they are today before they came to us The made a name for themselfs in our Jersey and build a foundation of what we represent today Before Arsene Wenger and with him We are a club that overachieve and under promise Everything we've done has be our very own unique way of doing it not the way other clubs are ahiceving i for one will not Follow the Man City's ambitions Chelseas Manchester united or anyone elses

Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur have since built even more modern training centres and Arsenal are now preparing to seek planning permission on projects that, over the next three years, will run into the millions of pounds.

The New Year's Eve event will be hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs Local 147, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Nearly 40 years after some of soccer's greatest stars played on a soccer pitch inside the House that Ruth Built, the modern - day Yankees franchise and one of Europe's elite soccer clubs are hoping to recreate that magic with the newly established New York City Football Club.

New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson selected a piece of art from the Whitney to decorate City Hall, adding a modern touch to the more traditional oil paintings in the building.

«Asiwaju combines his vision, ideas and leadership qualities to lay a solid foundation for subsequent administrations after him to build on; and the result is what we have today — a modern Lagos that is moving rapidly from a mega city to a smart city; the fourth biggest economy in Africa moving towards being the third biggest economy on the continent.

Centre for Cities is supportive of all the arguments made in the speech, from having a long term plan for the North, to the recognition that it is city regions and not local authorities or regions that are the building blocks of the modern economy, to offering more powers for elected mayors.

◆ Damson's — Located at the Orange Building, Media City, Salford, this reasonably priced restaurant (the set two - course menu costs # 15.95) serves up modern twists on traditional British cuisine, for example ham hock with creamed lentils and truffle, or horseradish mash teamed with pot - au - feu.

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

Their ideas include a Las Vegas - style facility 50 miles from New York City, modern casinos built on the sites of Borscht Belt resorts and a casino near a cave.

Logically, the best place to search was under modern Jerusalem's Temple Mount — also a tel, upon which much of the ancient city was built.

The firm's Ziggurat is «a building - city where people, nature, and modern technology are united» in a single structure measuring about one square mile at the base, which the company says could house up to 1 million people.

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.

The capacity to engage in shared tasks such as hunting large game and building cities may be what separated modern humans from our primate cousins

IN A LANDSCAPED lot on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, Utah, stands a modern building of glass and brick, typical of countless other offices built in the 1990s.

We got really lucky to find this beautiful spot hidden amongst the busy city, surrounded by modern buildings.

It has all the modern conveniences of city life with all the charm of old colorful buildings and friendly locals.

It is a city of tall and modern buildings.

Since the start of the city's life, there have been amazing attractions for lovebirds of all feathers, from the natural beauty that has graced this part of the world since the dawn of time, to the ultra modern sights and scenes that people have built up over the corse of generations through the decades that followed.

It's time to take a trip to Canada's very own piece of European culture — from stately buildings to gorgeous street vistas — all in one city — but also a whole lot more, with modern flourishes everywhere to be found.

Celebrating modern art from across the globe, Birmingham's Ikon Gallery is housed in a Victorian school building in Brindleyplace, beside the city's canals.

According to a study by the Council of Great City Schools, students that attend school in deteriorating buildings score between 5 to 11 percentile points lower on standardized achievement tests than students in modern, maintained buildings.

The Toyota Aygo helped create the modern city car genre with its perky three - cylinder engine, lightweight compact build, front - wheel drive and ultra-compact three - and five - door bodies that will fit four adults at a push.

This sporty sedan was built for the modern city driver, offering a long list of impressive connectivity and comfort features.

There are more, including #toccon 3: A Tale of Two (Capital) Cities and #toccon 4: Bridging Gulfs of Understanding and even a very apt meditation on a correlation Bounford drew between the role of a publisher and that of the Yoshio Taniguchi building that houses the Museum of Modern Art, #ToCcon: A (useful?)

Amarillo is an eclectic city, large and modern, yet it features many historic sites and buildings, as well as more than 50 parks.

The city is also well known for its modern airport, which was the first international airport in the United States built and designed after 9/11.

It would also put Kansas City on par with the types of modern shelters other communities are building (some non-KC Pictures appear in this section).

On March 22, 1811, city officials in New York certified a proposed grid plan of 11 north - south avenues and 155 east - west streets — the building blocks of modern Manhattan.

It occupies a modern building in one of the most quiet areas of the city, by the charming Lobera Park and Fuerte de la Victoria

Modern building, opened in 2003, located in the historic city center.

Thousands of miles of plains, mountains and glaciers, stunning canyons and natural monuments shaped by the wind, ancient cave paintings and glyphs can still be seen — as can modern cities complete with entertainment centres and shopping malls, built from scratch in the middle of the steppe.

Porto is indeed a city of endless charms that combine a rich history, old buildings covered in colorful azulejos (hand - painted tiles), modern architecture, a picturesque river front, and a high - spirited atmosphere that celebrates the joy of life.

He founded the City Planning Commission and worked with other organizing bodies to enforce building codes and architectural standards at the advent of the 20th century, demanding that all new construction conform to modern safety guidelines.

Built around the Brisbane River, this modern city showcases architecture and lifestyles geared to the outdoors and enjoyment of sunshine.