Sentences with phrase «urban metropolis on»

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.

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The first thing you'll notice is that Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolis (the inspiration for the term urban sprawl, in fact), which can make deciding on a location a more difficult endeavor than meets the eye.

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.

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.

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.

Explosions in the air, on the ground, with missiles and bullets and bombs and whatever else might help level a sand - swept urban metropolis.

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.

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.

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 metropoliOn 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 metropolion how these factors play out in a metropolis.

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.

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).