Sentences with phrase «urban grid known»
As in White Noise, a sunset dominates the novel's end: the chance alignment of sun and urban grid known as Manhattanhenge.
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Holloway, a former editor at SA, uses the little - known story of the man behind Manhattan's street grid to talk about larger issues surrounding urban planning and the way humans «tame» the natural world.
But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.
From melting grids and serial units to schematic renditions of Space Invaders and walls, the knowing allusions include both modernist painting and the fragmented material of contemporary urban life.