Sentences with phrase «urban metropolis of»

Steyn City includes 1 000 acres of extensive wooded parkland which constitutes 50 % of the estate, making it the largest woodland in the bustling urban metropolis of Johannesburg.

The most expensive place for car insurance in Florida is the urban metropolis of Miami.

Players race head - to - head across the urban metropolis of New Jack City as one of four hip characters, bustin» stylish flips and tricks to increase their speed and gain access to hidden pathways and shortcuts.

A firm believer in the borough's potential, Assemblyman Blake in anticipation of the event noted «the incredible technology opportunity» and its readiness to transition into an «urban metropolis of the world».

Bronx H.I.R.E.'s one - on - one personalized guidance on securing jobs and interviews with bronx employers continues our effort of turning the South Bronx into the urban metropolis of the world,» said Assemblyman Blake.

I'm tired of people thinking Kansas City is a rural, podunk little cowtown, when in fact it's an urban metropolis of over 2 million people with thriving communities of vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, and locavores.

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They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

Today, he says, that same place is a glitzy urban center, populated by skyscrapers that can rival, if not surpass, any of those that tower above the ground in the world's largest metropolises.

Unfortunately, by concentrating almost exclusively on the inner city, and inner city New York in particular, Gods of the City contributes to a preoccupation with the major metropolises (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) that has characterized most scholarship on urban religion.

Unlike the metropolises of the mainland, the urban / rural separation is a magnitude less on the island state.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

Riding the subway uptown, I'd thought how much faster the physical environment of the metropolis is, compared with the slower world of Iowa City, and so when I arrived I asked Damasio if he'd ever thought about the neurological effects of urban life.

Gee's remarks remind me of an experience I had a few years earlier, introducing my 7 - year - old nephew to SimCity 2000, the best - selling urban simulator that lets you create a virtual metropolis on your computer, build highways and bridges, zone areas for development, and raise or lower taxes.

Gee's remarks remind me of an experience I had a few years earlier, introducing my 7 - year - old nephew to SimCity 2000, the best - selling urban simulator that lets you create a virtual metropolis on your computer, building highways and bridges, zoning areas for development, raising or lowering taxes.

But cities can also lead to urban sprawl, and can reinforce inequalities, leaving poor and minority residents isolated even in the midst of a metropolis.

Using maps dating as far back as 1833, the researchers modeled the urban sprawl process as Groane developed from agricultural land into a residential and industrial area, and then into a postindustrial suburb of the Milanese metropolis.

Climate change accelerates growth of urban trees in metropolises worldwide.

Far less limiting than GTA's urban metropolises, which — because so much of those cities» interior spaces were inaccessible — always felt constructed out of paper houses, Red Dead Redemption's settings are fully, thrillingly alive, their functioning ecosystems, sudden dramatic occurrences, and operative economy all helping to create a sense of participating in a universe that operates independent of (rather than revolves around) you.

Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look at the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social inequality, and urban policy.

Nick has held fellowships from the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, the University of Chicago's Urban Network, and the Chicago Center for Teaching.

The Big Apple, perhaps America's most iconic metropolis, is playing host to the global unveiling of Kia Motors» most iconic people mover, the all - new 2014 Soul urban utility vehicle, today at the 113th New York International Auto Show.

This is a busy, busy oversize picture book about a busy, busy metropolis and some busy, busy people (an anthropologist, a young child, a spy, street performers, and a guide dog) taking various kinds of public transportation to get to their shared destination: Great Park, an urban recreation center.

Elizabeth Gaffney's magnificent, Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of America's greatest city in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.

From the book jacket: Elizabeth Gaffney's Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of New York in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.

We aim to be comprehensive in scope - covering topics related to urban issues in China as well as looking beyond the first tier metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai to discover the up - and - coming second and third tier cities.

There are massive urban metropolises — like Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban — in which some of the finest dining can be savoured within chic surrounds.

Canada's third - largest city is a thriving urban metropolis with world - famous scenery and incredible access to the natural beauty of the North Shore mountains.

As the country's only major urban location and home to Belize's international airport, this metropolis exudes color, history and an array of diverse cultures.

With a population of more than 32 million, Chongqing is also China's fastest growing metropolis; its urban population is forecast to double over the next five years.

With a population of more than 13 million people, the urban center is a spectacular, shimmering neon - lit metropolis, with a raucous nightlife, delicious food and a vibrant art, theater and music scene.

Vancouver's setting is spectacular, and at the heart of Canada's third - largest city is a thriving urban metropolis.

A region rich in culture, history and natural beauty, China is home to ancient civilisations and a plethora of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and offers the intriguing juxtaposition of contemporary urban metropolises with rural escapes, from the legendary peaks and gorges of Lijiang to the boutiques and museums of Beijing

Staying true to the values of rejuvenation and modern Asian hospitality, the urban resort inspires guests with a new perspective of the vibrant port - side metropolis, through its rich history.

Rowing down the Thames for four or five days and staying in hotels, pubs, the boat itself or camping out by the river path is an experience in urban calm that even residents of this thriving metropolis hardly realised was possible.

Full of repetition and areas of sprawling, concrete nothingness, it's fair to say that only a small part of any urban metropolis is actually worth recreating.

Its levels span relatively mundane locations like a bustling Manhattan - style urban metropolis and thick - pined forest to a land made entirely of food, chunks of roast meat and cobs of corn floating on rivers of boiling cheese or pink sugar.

Tarek Abou El Fetouh (curator) John Akomfrah (artist and filmmaker) Rheim Alkadhi (artist) Noora Al Mualla (Curator of Modern Arab Art, Sharjah Art Foundation) Monira Al Qadiri (artist) Hoor Al Qasimi (Director, Sharjah Art Foundation) Saira Ansari (Researcher, Sharjah Art Foundation) Rasheed Araeen (artist) Marwa Arsanios (artist) Mohammad Ali Atassi (Director, Bidayyat) Sarnath Banerjee (artist, writer and graphic novelist) Daniel Blanga Gubbay (Researcher and Curator, Aleppo.eu) Yaminay Chaudhri (artist and Co-founder, Tentative Collective) Ali Cherri (artist) Manuel de Rivero (Co-founder, Supersudaca) Manthia Diawara (University Professor and Director, Institute of African American Affairs, New York University) Mona El Mousfy (Founder and Managing Director, SpaceContinuum) Shilpa Gupta (artist) Ayesha Hameed (artist and Lecturer, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College) Dale Harding (artist) Salah Hassan (Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University) Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (artist) Saba Innab (artist and architect) Eungie Joo (Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Butheina Kazim (Co-founder, Cinema Akil) Maha Maamoun (artist) Ahmed Mater (artist) Almagul Menlibayeva (artist) Sally Mizrachi (Co-founder, lugar a dudas) Naeem Mohaiemen (artist) Paribartana Mohanty (artist) Aram Moshayedi (Curator, Hammer Museum) Hania Mroué (Founder and Director, Metropolis Art Cinema) Neo Muyanga (composer and musician) Zeynep Öz (curator) Claudia Pagès (artist) Sharmini Pereira (Founder and Director, Raking Leaves) Filipa Ramos (Co-curator, Vdrome) Uzma Rizvi (Associate Professor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute) Abir Saksouk (Architect, Public Works) Larissa Sansour (artist) Mario Santanilla (artist) Zineb Sedira (artist) Wael Shawky (artist) Reem Shilleh (Co-founder, Subversive Film) Martine Syms (artist) Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Co-founder, Atelier Bow - Wow) Alper Turan (Co-founder, DAS Art Project) Deepak Unnikrishnan (writer) Antonio Vega Macotela (artist) Hajra Waheed (artist) Ala Younis (artist and curator)

5 P.M., Friday, April 24 ARTIST TALK: Patsy Cox 210 McKnight Art Center West (WSU School of Art and Design) On the Verge artist Patsy Cox's installations ingeniously represent the urban landscape, mixing issues of culture, race, and identity with commentary on how these factors play out in a metropolis.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Born in Rio de Janeiro and resident in São Paulo since the 1990s, her works have been shaped by the influences of the urban metropolises on the rural environment.

Mame Diarra Niang's «Metropolis Central» series of photographs flattens Johannesburg's urban landscape into arrangements of colored planes, refashioning it into an imaginary, mutable territory that stands in for the artist's peripatetic upbringing.

«The Black Metropolis, between Past and Future: Race, Urban Planning and African - American Culture in Chicago,» University of Chicago Center in Paris, France, November 18, 2017

The 16 mm film collage, Wikipolis, juxtaposes a scene from Metropolis, Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 film on urban dystopia, with an image of a former nuclear bunker in Stockholm that now houses a data centre with 8,000 computer servers, two of which belong to WikiLeaks.

In particular, Hatakeyama has routinely returned to the Tokyo - Yokohama metropolis, exploring this ever - evolving urban sprawl from both below and above, mapping the growth and expansion of these sites over time.

His latest exhibition Metropolis on Silesian urban landscapes was held at the Silesian Museum in Katowice in 2013 and a solo show Silesia and Galicia in the Museum of History of Photography in 2016 in Krakow (Poland).

New York's second largest city, it is the metropolis of a large urban complex that includes the cities of Lackawanna, Lockport, Niagara Falls,...

Over the last twenty years, Aglaia Konrad has systematically investigated the development of the global metropolis, the expansion of urban agglomerations and the rise of the mega-city in locations as diverse as Sao Paulo, Beijing, Chicago, Dakar, and Cairo.

Made at bus stops throughout the city, the large - scale black and white photographs capture the isolation of the urban metropolis through formally composed and carefully detailed views of desolate boulevards disappearing into the horizon, peopled only by the Los Angeles underclass waiting for the next bus.

Titled The Psychic Power of Animals, the ongoing project brings the energy of nature back into the urban metropolis, softening the harsh city architecture with the gracefulness and spirit - like presence of the swans.