Sentences with phrase «of city landscapes»

Perhaps my biggest disappointment with The Following is the lack of city landscapes to climb, leap and vault around using the excellent movement system.

Another factor contributing to the high - pitched and faster urban songs is the relative openness of city landscapes compared to forests.

Ben Reynolds comments: «We are all familiar with allotments, and community gardens as features of the city landscape, but more often than not a lot of space is wasted, where with a little support we could see projects like this in the UK, where salad crops, vegetables and even fish are produced commercially within the city.»

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And that's because Otis's invention didn't just whisk people and freight up and down floors with unprecedented speed, it recast the landscape of civilization: It did nothing less than reinvent the city.

Dozens of new country houses had popped up in the fields outside the city, which, at a distance, resembled castles transforming the landscape into a kind of distant fantasy land.

Shunning the usual practice of sacrificing nature for the sake of gigantic sporting arenas, the Norwegian city urged companies to use natural materials whenever possible, launched a regional recycling program, and stipulated that all built projects had to blend in with the natural landscape.

From a mix of culture, landscape and history on the one hand, to a money trap on the other, being a tourist in Europe's most popular cities proves...

We have assessed 106 markets and identified the cities to watch in the new and evolving landscape of the global hotel industry.

Epicenter is Stockholm's first digital House of Innovation at the heart of the city and Sweden's digital landscape.

Congress will wrestle with other public policy choices that could reshape the physical landscape of major cities.

Lindsay Barber of City AM provides insight into investor opinion on the post-Brexit landscape.

Symptomatic of a broader shift internationally, the crypto landscape in Dublin has changed rapidly, and with an enthusiasm perhaps disproportionate to the city's scale.

When complete, The Spiral will be a 65 - story, Class AA office tower featuring one - of - a-kind architecture designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group featuring a cascading series of landscaped terraces and hanging gardens, unobstructed river and city views and column - free floor plates.

Twenty - one years ago, in a federal election that reshaped the Canadian political landscape, the Liberals swept Edmonton, electing Members of Parliament in four of the city's six federal ridings.

In addition to having some of the best seafood and colleges in the country, the state is close to many of the nation's biggest cities and has some of the most beautiful landscapes around.

It's residents have stated that there's no where else in the world they'd rather live, and, with access to some of the world's biggest cities a short drive away and the calm, peaceful landscape the state is famous for, who can blame them?

Offering a range of natural landscapes to enjoy and explore and some of the most exciting and diverse cities in the country, it's no surprise that California residents say they'd rather be here than anywhere else.

A good city clearly is part of an ecological order — it is a means by which humans live over an extended period in the natural landscape.

When the sun is shining these bright limestone cities set on top of hills dominate the landscape.

The incident should have been a warning sign that our city was in trouble, but there was little reaction, and the abandoned construction site has become an unnoticed part of the city's landscape.

~ Tom Turner, City as landscape: a post-postmodern view of design and planning

The goal of nondual understanding is especially attractive right now to Westerners living in a world characterized by fragmentation — of landscapes, cities, families, and social communities.

With an Irving Plaza, Times Square and Montclair, New Jersey «campus,» Hillsong NYC has become Exhibit A for many looking to examine evidence of the changing church landscape in the New York City area.

He said: «A lot of England's churches are so beautiful and without them the landscape and cities would be much poorer.

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted - out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

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.

Out of these shared convictions and the culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through life.

For that one week a year, it is the eighth largest city in Nevada, swelling to 70,000 strong, and situated just a two - hour ride north of Reno in a barren, dry and dusty landscape.

Whether situated in the heart of a major city like Paris, London, New York, Shanghai or Beijing, or nestled away in a country landscape in Morocco, Egypt, French Polynesia or Thailand, each Sofitel property offers a genuine experience of the French «art de vivre.»

It's our goal to honor the history of the neighborhood by adding a lasting landmark restaurant to Kansas City's landscape.

But then days like yesterday happen and my trust in humankind surges; I find hope and faith in our place here as part of the multicultural American landscape; and I find solace in this city's diversity, which I hold so dear.

Avance Coffee Conference October 11 - 12, 2017 - Guatemala City, Guatemala Michelle Deugd, Rainforest Alliance Director of Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods, will be a speaker on Climate Change: Reconciling Global and Local Actions at this conference hosted by the Specialty Coffee Association.

As a river community where cultures have always intermingled, restaurants in Natchez, Mississippi offer a diverse dining landscape but one of the city's proudest recognitions relates to a staple Southern dish.

EXPO's modern interior pays homage to the City of Light (past and present), featuring glass panels reminiscent of Niagara Falls, a green wall celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect), 8 - watt light bulbs similar to those that illuminated the Pan American Exposition, a mural by local artist Kimberly Halavin, and three 12 - foot high murals by local artist Casey William Milbrand that juxtapose the Buffalo of today with extraordinary moments of its past.

On - site amenities include more than 125 tiered private balconies providing stunning city views of the Hollywood Hills, recently renovated central plazas, a 16,000 - square - foot fitness center, a landscaped park with jogging trail and 2,560 parking spaces in two three - level subterranean parking garages.

«Each of the cities» diverse economic landscape, community atmosphere and vibrant arts and entertainment offerings are a great fit for our laidback, family - friendly restaurant concept.»

Join Aarón this season as he treks across the U.S exploring the Latin side of every city, encountering the chefs, families, and locals who have helped define each city's culinary landscape.

I thought about all of the vegan friendly restaurants I had read about, the history of the city itself, the architecture from neighborhood to neighborhood, the abundance of parks and murals that weave throughout the urban landscape, and of course, my favorite peoples who lived in Philadelphia that we were headed to see.

With the development of oil he had seen the silvery towers of refineries rise out of the flat landscape; had seen the night sky sparkle with the lights of new industrial plants; had watched the little towns grow into cities.

Past olive groves forming an animal print of the landscape, eventually giving way to gleaming wheat fields and haystacks seemingly still wet from van Gogh's brush and assembled with Cezanne's eye, it is hard to imagine any city in the world ensnaring your heart with more force of raw beauty.

But in the current landscape of league - sanctioned player activism, where similar forums have appeared in NBA cities from Los Angeles, to Memphis, to here, branded with USA basketball and league materials, it fits in with the expected response.

With Pep Guardiola joining the summer the landscape of Manchester City will change dramatically.

They can change the landscape of a city and change the course of the lives of its residents.

There are many crosscurrents facing Republicans: the polarization of the electorate turned off by President Donald Trump, New York City domination of the state's political and economic landscape and an exodus of upstate residents who tended to vote more conservatively.

This demographic shift, augmented by Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, has transformed much of the Jewish landscape of the city, according to Michael Tobman, a political consultant who has helped advise campaigns and organizations in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.

With its array of historic buildings, the crumbling landscape of downtown Jamestown offers poignant reminders of a small city that was once a jewel of the Northeast.

Florida emerged from Hurricane Irma as a landscape of blacked - out cities, shuttered gas stations, shattered trees and flooded streets, while the now - weakened storm kept sweeping northward.

Throughout her 30 year career, she has built an incredible track record of creating and protecting parks, from vest - pocket parks in cities to landscape parks like Sterling Forest.

«Given the intensity of the leadership race over the last few weeks, I haven't had the opportunity to think much about the political landscape at home in New York City.

CITY HALL — The sweeping transformation of nearly 6 percent of Staten Island's landscape into the largest city park to be built in more than a century is facing funding and planning uncertainty under Mayor Bill de Blasio.