Sentences with phrase «urban canyons»
"Urban canyons" refers to narrow streets or spaces between tall buildings in cities that resemble canyons found in nature. Full definition
These very low frequency (VLF) digitally modulated magnetic signals can travel farther through building materials, water, and soil than conventional communications signals at higher frequencies and, with further advances in receivers and transmitters, could improve communications and mapping indoors at long range, in urban canyons, underwater and underground.
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The Thomas K. McKeon Center for Creativity anchors downtown Tulsa's southern corridor, filling the Boston Avenue urban canyon with creative energy, and providing integrated outdoor spaces for students and the community.
Above all, there is image after image of the planes crashing into the towers, the ensuing infernos and structural cataclysms, and the infernal clouds of black smoke and debris surging like tidal waves into the surrounding urban canyons.
Recent research shows how spaces like urban canyons create distinctive weather patterns — and how to prevent them from causing weather disasters.
Exhaustive Study Computer models show that when crosswinds travel over deep urban canyons, sideways - swirling vortices may push traffic pollution from the center of the street onto the sidewalk.
Anyone who has struggled to pinpoint his or her location in a mall, airport or urban canyon amid skyscrapers has experienced a GPS gap firsthand.
Death Cure starts with a slam - bang train robbery before it segues into a number of cliffhangers in which the «cliffs» are urban canyons of glass and steel.
A black SRT spoiler embellishes the tail and helps drive the rear towards the pavement when in motion, enabling the 300S to corner urban canyons with impressive agility.
He still has small nature scenes, but now urban canyons as well.
CO-OP CANYON is a cooperative community of 1,000 people living together in terraced cliff dwellings overlooking lush urban canyon.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that quantum physics might enable communications and mapping in locations where GPS and ordinary cellphones and radios don't work reliably or even at all, such as indoors, in urban canyons, underwater and underground.
But people often find themselves in places where reception drops to zero — inside buildings and urban canyons, underground, underwater and below dense tree canopies.
The US Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing a radar system which sees around corners and down into «urban canyons».
There's nothing more fun than jumping off the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier and waiting until the last possible moment to engage flight controls and launch into a hair - raising ascent before weaving through New York's urban canyons.
As with the original film, Greek composer Vangelis is the real star here — his keening keyboard themes have been acid - washed by today's re-scorers, Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer, yet the Chariots of Fire wizard's aural signature echoes through these urban canyons like a welcoming beacon.
Navigating through an urban canyon, skyscrapers to either side, the 2015 Mercedes - Benz S550 Hybrid glides along quietly, its air suspension smoothing the pockmarked pavement and the cabin insulating me from the downtown bustle.
For Corinne Wasmuht or Terry Winters, one has to let it spin apart, and for Tom McGrath or Mark Innerst, one has to cross fencing, undergrowth, and urban canyons to enter it.
McCarthy uses an innovative video technique to create a fictional, urban canyon, Parzybok builds exquisite little worlds out of familiar objects, and Rajakumar appropriates specific moments of animated landscapes.