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Between Us: The Downtown Denver Alleyways Project continues in Downtown Denver alleyways, near 16th Street Mall, through May 2019.
Its narrow streets and alleyways are impassable for armored vehicles.
"And we have to sneak into the alleyways," he says.
The implications reach far beyond the winding alleyways of Agra.
The oral history of these alleyways spans several political eras.
Some are just a scattering of makeshift tables in alleyways.
Look for dead end alleyways, blind turns and other ambush points.
Even medium-quality cities have nice restaurant owners or secluded alleyways.
In Sana'a the old city's once-empty alleyways are crowded again.
The streetlights were broken or dim, and the alleyways were dark.
In Northern China, particularly in Beijing, hutongs are old, narrow alleyways.
All the alleyways and side-streets blocked with stops and colons.
The alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City already bristle with security cameras.
His interrogators knew the neighborhood's shops and alleyways better than he did.
He sings: "With the brush you left / I combed the alleyways…" Sigh.
Videos and images posted online by witnesses showed bodies spread along alleyways.
Unlike many major cities, New York has no extensive system of alleyways.
Monaco's old town is full of beautiful architecture and charming narrow alleyways.
Montreal's several thousand alleyways started as country routes along old agricultural tracts.
There was a mini stampede where we were, in one of the alleyways.
Do the tank tops lurk enigmatically in shadowy alleyways while wearing a fedora?
The streets in Xita resembled the bleak alleyways of Amsterdam's red light district.
There are haunted bridges and haunted alleyways, haunted parks and haunted parking lots.
Some of the victims were found in dumpsters and alleyways across L.A. County.
During the days, they cruised the residential streets and alleyways in their districts.
Some Montreal alleyways share wine, hosting regular happy hours where visitors are welcomed.
I spotted several colorful murals in alleyways and on the sides of buildings.
The cops bug their houses, tap phones, and monitor alleyways from the sky.
It's about more than just the aesthetic of neon signs and dark alleyways.
Most were callously discarded in bushes, alleyways or dumpsters, in various states of undress.
His alleged victims were discovered in alleyways in South Los Angeles starting in 1984.
Television images showed desperate scenes of residents trying to flee through tight, labyrinthine alleyways.
Otherwise: Was a lot of your stuff found in thrift stores, IKEA, and alleyways?
They must be people with no friends, seething monsters prowling in alleyways, we think.
So you want to know what happens in the dark alleyways of the internet?
I would have sex with strangers in alleyways, in pub bathrooms, and in parks.
The streets are narrow — extremely narrow by U.S. standards, sometimes no wider than alleyways.
We navigated through narrow, graffiti-lined alleyways by cellphone until we found the museum.
In the alleyways, I saw that many of the windows were covered with blankets.
"I find Montrealers very engaging when we meet them in the alleyways," he said.
"Sound of Music" kitsch practically runs through the medieval alleyways of that alpine city.
Troupes of Quran-memorizers once walked these alleyways reciting verses from their holy book.
They are parked near the Colosseum, stashed in alleyways or rested against stop signs.
Daegu's mail deliverers still weave through its alleyways, rushing up the stairs with packages.
The alleyways of the makeshift village were deserted during the hot, dusty May afternoon.
In bathrooms, bedrooms, and alleyways across the country, people are overdosing and dying every day.
The kinds of sensible typefaces you typically find in newspapers, or your email—not alleyways.
In Vienna, the city planners widened sidewalks, lit paths and alleyways, and redesigned public parks.
The bad people didn't lie beyond our campus, didn't lurk on roads and in alleyways.
Filipino women emerge from the back door of a bar into the alleyways of Tokyo.
Hundreds of young men and women blocked streets and alleyways with burning tyres, witnesses said.
Through the peaks and valleys and alleyways we serpentined through together you were always there.
One of the joys of visiting Hong Kong is wandering the city's alleyways and streets.
A thief steals Smith's wallet on his first morning, vanishing into a maze of alleyways.
Both weapons facilities were in the middle of residential areas, tucked underneath alleyways between houses.
And some of those original streets, rooms, and alleyways still exist under the new infrastructure.
"In the past six years the number of green alleyways has just exploded," he said.
These aren't the urban dwellers that scurry down dark alleyways in cities like New York.
And he's really pretty much everywhere: virtual billboards, alleyways, and the wing of her plane.
Safdar drives at alarming speed, weaving between lanes of traffic, careering down alleyways, siren blaring.
They do it in plastic bags and fling them through the air in narrow slum alleyways.
While small arms fire rattles constantly, there is no movement in the empty streets and alleyways.
Rather than killing quietly in alleyways, they made sure to slay Roman-sympathizers before a crowd.
Abdul Wahab al-Saadi of Iraq's CTS, referring to its warren of narrow streets and alleyways.
The vast majority of cariocas live neither along beachfront avenues nor the alleyways of ramshackle favelas.
However, agency leaders resisted for many months calling in investigators to plunge down the necessary alleyways.
You seem to have special affection for the foxes who haunt the alleyways of East London.
Hossein spent the evening skirting alleyways and crouching on unlit porches as security personnel searched houses.
Like the market rows in Lomé, the streets of the Marais in Paris are tight alleyways.
It was unclear whether the crowd was still in danger, but the alleyways were crowding up.
Dozens have opened in Manhattan and Brooklyn, behind unmarked doors, Potemkin coffee shops and hidden alleyways.
During those days, the vendor said, the workforce swells to 350,000, and the alleyways are packed.
The streets are made up of narrow alleyways and are filled with stone buildings with domed roofs.
It was Giuliani time, when they'd throw people in jail for jumping turnstiles and pissing in alleyways.
Bulldozers have carved thoroughfares through a honeycomb of ancient alleyways, used as hiding places by the Shirazis.
For the aficionados that fell in love with France's grimy alleyways, there will be little to recognise.
Sometimes there's no bucket or no open Starbucks, leaving alleyways and sidewalks to become the dumping ground.
Unavowed has you wandering around the empty rooms and crime scenes and abandoned alleyways of New York.
During busy season, its narrow alleyways flood with tourists from all over China seeking its antique feel.
Striding through Canary Wharf's shadowy alleyways between the towers, Britain's once powerful financial city is oddly ghostly.
The bustle of the urban alleyways and the restiveness of the small towns come across credibly throughout.
Mosques and colorful temples are lined up next to each other here in sandy and curving alleyways.
Fire engines had trouble reaching the blaze because so many illegally parked cars blocked the narrow alleyways.
Local musicians filled the street corners and alleyways playing music, a built-in soundtrack to our exploration.
Hardest hit have been the old neighborhoods of picturesque, if not always pristine, alleyways known as hutongs.
"The old city has old buildings and small alleyways, and to protect the civilians, we need new tactics."
Blue teargas cartridges could still be seen strewn in the narrow alleyways, with black burn marks on concrete.
It includes a network of alleyways, known as Yongqing Fang, which has been turned into a leisure zone.
So, too, has the government complex, all the schools and the medieval alleyways lined with madrassas and monasteries.
IN THE warren of alleyways that make up Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela, the air is heavy with foreboding.
Hutongs, traditional homes built around courtyards in neighborhoods of narrow alleyways, were among the first to be "rectified".
You say in the introduction that you took photos in "seedy alleyways" – just how seedy did it get?
In the evenings, I began roaming streets and alleyways I hadn't visited for years with a missionary zeal.
Western Mosul has many narrow streets and alleyways that tanks and other large armoured vehicles cannot pass through.
"You've got literally millions of people, 300 deep down alleyways, hucking toilet paper at you," Clay Bellinger said.
No one seems to walk on the residential alleyways, so you can get a photo like this, too.
A connoisseur of fine sentiments, he was prone to hide in dark alleyways and expose himself to women.
It was only recently that you were helping people, not dragging them into dark alleyways to drain them dry.
It was, and still is, the music of alleyways, street corners, stairwells, concrete—and it sounds like it too.
Their naked or partially clothed bodies were dumped in filthy neighborhood alleyways, left to rot under garbage and debris.
The condition is vital in a city where even children in alleyways can be overheard talking politics, he added.
It is made for the Gulf of Bothnia and the alleyways of Jokkmokk and the lethal zephyrs of Njörðr.
Collectors of rare books and posters of China find gems in the ramshackle alleyways devoted to old paper items.
CAIRO — The security agents lurked in alleyways, at metro stations and in armored cars, looking for signs of trouble.
It's hard to imagine a more central location, amid the winding alleyways that make up the charming old city.
For most people, it's home delivery, but he's delivered to Safeway parking lots, bus stops, offices, or even alleyways.
By late afternoon, old indigents with hennaed beards filled many of the alleyways, prostrate in nests of discarded twigs.
When I visited Anzora last spring, we crossed streets at angles in order to skirt alleyways frequented by gangsters.
Inside the secret lives of functioning heroin addicts They're not slumped in alleyways with used needles by their sides.
Maps of historic Palestine and posters of Palestinian leaders are pasted to the walls of the camp's narrow alleyways.
And you also see that there are a lot of these really narrow alleyways that winded deeper into the neighborhoods.
In western Mosul, a historical enclave of small alleyways and old buildings, the fight is one of dense urban warfare.
The channel captures the kaleidoscope of Japan's beauty: cherry blossom-dotted sidewalks, ultramodern architecture, Shinto shrines, neon alleyways, manicured gardens.
Satabraq meanders the alleyways in the Old City of Mosul, a place that is both her home and a frontline.
Interwoven into the cityscape were squat houses of local basalt connected by twisting alleyways that provided shelter from the sun.
With narrow alleyways, big mansions and covered markets the ancient city of Aleppo became a UNESCO heritage site in 1986.
I am standing in one of London's dank alleyways, just a few steps from the scene of a grisly murder.
With narrow alleyways, big mansions and covered markets, the ancient city of Aleppo became a UNESCO heritage site in 1986.
In cities, they tend to elude detection by turning strictly nocturnal, often building dens in quiet alleyways or parking garages.
Whether I was on busy streets or in quiet alleyways, Chinatown served up rock solid 25G connectivity and download speeds.
Our correspondent says the old neighborhoods of picturesque, if not always pristine, alleyways known as hutongs have been hardest hit.
The civilians trapped in the Old City, a densely-populated maze of narrow alleyways, have little food, water or medical supplies.
Their naked or partially clothed bodies were all dumped in the filthy neighborhood alleyways, left to rot under garbage and debris.
On Fridays across the Eastern Province, young men in luminous jackets park cars and forklifts in the alleyways leading to mosques.
Three-wheeled rickshaws are widespread in many Egyptian cities, usually in neighborhoods with narrow alleyways, and are mostly imported from India.
The western section has built-up markets and narrow alleyways dating back more than two millennia which will likely complicate advances.
As they raced through the neighborhood, masked boys appeared from the left and the right, darting out of alleyways, hurling stones.
In a flare-up of fighting over the last week, more than 200 police officers stormed into Alemão's labyrinth of alleyways.
"Ambush them in the houses, the alleyways and the streets, mine the arcades and carry out raid after raid," he said.
Shops in the cobblestone alleyways of Old Sana'a glistened with bejeweled jumbiyas, the curved ceremonial daggers that hang from male waists.
Of the roughly 21,2000 acres in the city of Los Angeles, more than 103,210 are alleyways that cut through city blocks.
At least 51 women in Chicago have been murdered, strangled and stuffed in garbage cans or left in alleyways since 2001.
During his tryout, Mr. Senat spent two days in Old City, where restaurants and retail mix on colonial-era cobblestone alleyways.
They drummed out rhythms on waves and laughed so loud, the sound echoed through the concrete alleyways that crisscross the island.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, bars went from being seedy spots hidden in alleyways to popular gathering spots.
People just started running into shops, there was a kind of mini-stampede where we were, down one of the alleyways.
The neighborhood, Chawkbazar, is centuries old and home to serpentine alleyways and teetering buildings standing so close together they nearly touch.
Crammed down narrow alleyways and along the main thoroughfare are small shops selling everything from street food to electrical goods to jewelry.
The blaze quickly spread through the narrow alleyways of the centuries-old Chawkbazar district, where residents live above shops, restaurants and warehouses.
I used to walk home on my own at 4 AM down alleyways, but I'd never let a woman do that today.
One of the best ways to get started in Curaçao is by wandering Punda's tight alleyways full of shops and art galleries.
He "walked the neighborhood in a stealthy fashion, utilizing the shadows and the alleyways to conceal his movements," according to their report.
In Tal Afar, Iraq's soldiers did not have to squeeze through tight alleyways, as they did in the old city of Mosul.
Swift slyly included "Year of the Snake" (蛇年) in Chinese calligraphy seen in one of the alleyways (at 0:22). OMG.
The country's 40m or so motorbikes terrify pedestrians, but can thunder 10-abreast along thoroughfares as well as worm down dark alleyways.
He takes the fight to the top, addressing Alexandra directly at her office instead of skulking around alleyways beating up poor kids.
For Wilson, it was seeing the unusually large number of collapsed bodies in the alleyways the day after welfare checks came out.
At the height of summer some 10,000 holidaymakers per day trundle off cruise ships into the alleyways of Santorini, a Greek island.
Janberidze and Toloraia both live and work in the Old Town, which has winding alleyways and balconied 18th- and 19th-century buildings.
This is an area where unencumbered views of canals, alleyways and colorful, crumbling edifices abound, as do bakeries, cafes and neighborhood bars.
Two centuries ago, New York City decided against maintaining the rear alleyways and mews that are still common in many other cities.
As a result, Tehran looks like a concrete jungle where high-rises with no provisions for parking spaces soar over small alleyways.
From whimsical cobblestone streets to romantic gardens to gritty alleyways, New York offers a romantic backdrop for any style of wedding photographs.
But in order to maintain safety in a metal tube with only one or two alleyways, the cabin crew needs your cooperation.
As night fell, they were chased by riot police through narrow alleyways and some were attacked by pro-government thugs wielding knives.
In dozens of quick cuts, scads of teens and young adults hop metro turnstiles and crowd into bistros, packing alleyways and streets.
For every four or five non-descript sets of apartments, alleyways, or rooftops you fight your way through, there's something genuinely eye-catching.
Stroll through the Dutch fairy tale old town of Pietermaai, filled with alleyways criss-crossed with strings of lights and brothels-turned-boutiques.
Most of Franklin's victims were young women he fatally shot or strangled and dumped in alleyways or garbage bins in South Los Angeles.
ON A recent afternoon excavators and dump trucks crammed into what remained of the alleyways of Xupu on the western edge of Shanghai.
I'd travel to Chinatown and follow strange men through alleyways and up several flights of stairs to buy knockoff, translucent Louis Vuitton purses.
London Bridge is a major transport hub and nearby Borough Market is a fashionable warren of narrow alleyways packed with bars and restaurants.
Officers snaked through backyards and alleyways with their hands on their guns as helicopters circled overhead and residents ducked for cover amid gunfire.
And after walking the streets, poking my head over fences, and gamboling through alleyways, I eventually happened upon a group of likely candidates.
Miles and miles of rough country rolled to the horizon, a leafy sandstone valley sprouting interior courtyards and alleyways, the swollen sun overhead.
Even smokers did their part, poking holes at the mouth for cigarettes so they could continue to smoke in Hong Kong's narrow alleyways.
Those who escaped on Friday streamed through alleyways near the Grand al-Nuri Mosque, which Islamic State fighters blew up a week ago.
He used to drive by the containers, and one day he decided to head inside the maze of tiny alleyways and crumbling buildings.
I will run through the spidery alleyways of Barcelona's old city, trying to get ahead of the crowd that's forming at Arc de Triomf.
This shadowy industry used to thrive mainly in alleyways in certain cities, but these days, many counterfeits hide in plain sight on the internet.
Inside the slum, a series of main avenues provide some kind of structure amid the thousands of alleyways formed from gaps between the huts.
The excavation exposed large buildings, alleyways and burial places, evidence of a relatively advanced level of planning, the antiquities authority said in a statement.
But those US-backed fighters now battling against ISIS in the alleyways of Raqqa may wonder what the long-term future holds for them.
"So in the narrow alleyways of Delhi, we ended up using vegetable carts," said Shari Rosenfeld, Sesame Workshop's Senior VP for international social impact.
A U.S.-led international coalition is providing air and ground support to the Iraqi forces fighting through the Old City's maze of narrow alleyways.
I get some plaster, some paving stones, some roof tiles, easily stepping into shadows and alleyways on the rare occasion that I spot someone.
The storied neighborhood is technically part of skyscraper-dense Shinjuku, but feels worlds away given its antiquated, mostly two-story buildings and narrow alleyways.
So we had Ester take some photos of us down in some alleyways and whatnot, and we took our photo in an old pub.
The screen behind him flashed with cryptic visuals, all slithers of light and bodies dancing, before switching to show bikers rolling through dark alleyways.
Additionally, according to a recent study, 36 percent of people injecting drugs in Toronto are doing so in public places, like washrooms and alleyways.
Mr. Franklin was arrested in 2010 at his home, not far from the South Los Angeles alleyways where the victims' bodies had been found.
Mr. Franklin was arrested in 2010 at his home, not far from the South Los Angeles alleyways where the victims' bodies had been found.
Zipping through rain-soaked, trash-strewn alleyways, bouncing off walls and leaping skyward as if jet-propelled, his camera dodges every blow and bullet.
The town of Naousa is exactly what I picture when I think of Greece – small winding alleyways shaped by white buildings with blue accents.
Whether it was odd alleyways in a town, or random birds and mushrooms on a hunting trip, he was always lagging behind, appreciating them.
The department flooded the streets with rookies who picked through trash and shined flashlights in alleyways and sewer grates searching for any potential evidence.
He does not mind when people blast loud music, and he strolls the alleyways near his home in a tank top stained with grease.
Into the mid-20th century, much of Beijing's population lived clustered in the hutongs, or alleyways, that crisscrossed the neighborhoods surrounding the Forbidden City.
I care for high-risk and homeless children living in shelters and alleyways, and I see firsthand hunger's effects on their health and learning.
In recent posts, Arenas hones in on his childhood passion for skateboard tricks, and his warm-weather love for biking down New York's alleyways.
For six months before the city bulldozed Sovetski, the Ajam MC team painstakingly recorded everyday scenes in local shops, housing complexes, and labyrinthine alleyways.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - An advertising agency in Thailand has developed a "smart vest" that potentially could turn stray dogs into guardians of Bangkok's streets and alleyways.
During Little's years as a predator, he strangled and beat his victims to death, leaving their bodies on the streets behind dumpsters and in alleyways.
As we walk through narrow alleyways, we notice blood splattered on the wall where Siddique was killed -- a swarm of flies congregates in the area.
The old city's narrow alleyways will force Iraqi troops to dismount from their armoured Humvees, making them easier prey for IS suicide-bombers and snipers.
Author and photographer Ian Lambot called it the City of Darkness, because with alleyways no wider than six feet, residents almost never saw the sky.
Yet there is little dignity to be found in places like Gaza's Shati camp, where the smell of untreated sewage lingers over the teeming alleyways.
But security forces faced ferocious resistance from several hundred militants hunkered down among thousands of civilians in the maze of alleyways in Mosul's Old City.
The labyrinths of narrow alleyways are a throwback to when this region was known as Al-Andalus and was part of a medieval Muslim territory.
They are trapped with little food, water or medicine amid the Old City's maze of narrow alleyways, according to residents who have managed to escape.
With Akinbode Akinbiyi, a British citizen of Nigerian descent, we walk the streets of Lagos and the alleyways of Cairo, where pyramids loom like mirages.
While only in French, the app transcends language with photos and maps, giving users license to duck down alleyways as if on a scavenger hunt.
Parisians and tourists alike can be seen zipping up and down the windy streets of the Left Bank and the narrow alleyways of the Marais.
The family lived in the town of Burari, north of the capital, where a large migrant population lives in rickety buildings squished into congested alleyways.
Along Thanon Chan, in a surprisingly quiet little neighborhood, were sois, or alleyways, full of food vendors, who had been relocated off the main street.
The elite counterterrorism service, known as the CTS, has had to move carefully through the narrow, bombed-out alleyways of Mosul and across exposed rooftops.
In Iraq, the jihadists have all but lost Mosul; they blew up the Nuri mosque in their last stand in a pocket of alleyways (see article).
When Ayatollah Khomenei addressed his followers, he did so from the humble surroundings of his mosque, Hosseiniyeh Jamaran, tucked into the cramped alleyways on Tehran's heights.
Commanders expect the battle there to be more difficult, in part because tanks and armored vehicles cannot pass through the narrow alleyways that crisscross ancient districts.
And illegal "Termination Centers," run out of back alleyways and abandoned, dilapidated houses, warp the defiant choice to end a pregnancy into a potentially lethal decision.
It is one of the city's surviving hutong (alleyways) from the pre-Communist period—a lane of single-story houses, grey brick walls and upturned eaves.
As I roam its avenues and alleyways, I complain to friends in-game about jerkwads who prey on lower-level players, hunting us like defenseless deer.
But far from being an idyllic oasis, its endless dusty alleyways are lined by high mud brick walls, each compound closed off by corrugated iron gates.
Walking in Los Angeles and its neighborhoods and experiencing its diversity at street level, roaming its alleyways and lurking under the freeways was adventurous for me.
Among the winding alleyways, clergy walked in and out of their homes, little more than shacks built with wooden beams and sheets of metal and plastic.
By the end, she can produce images, visions of rooms and alleyways, that would constitute literary accomplishment even for an author writing in her native tongue.
New York City presides as destination of brave generations, who quickly learn its neighborhoods and alleyways, the idiosyncrasies of acceptance and the richest identity of mingling.
Along the way there's a handful of environments and songs that feel like they'd fit right in with the movies, from cool clubs to dark alleyways.
The films' backdrops of traditional alleyways and 19th-century neoclassical buildings are modeled after architecture that in real life has been demolished by the square mile.
Alongside the grand structures of the city, Beijing's maze-like network of alleyways, or hutongs, are one of Lang Lang's favorite places to explore, he explained.
Manila, Philippines — Breastfeeding her three-month-old daughter, Hazel Encarnacion, 16, walks through the narrow alleyways of Tondo, one of Manila's poorest and most crowded neighborhoods.
Photographers documented the inn and other soot-stained alleyways, Gothic façades, and rambling wooden structures in glass plate negatives, printed in carbon to make them last.
Walk down the town's narrow cobblestone alleyways and you'll be greeted by rows of glistening pork knuckles—a deep red hue and warm to the touch.
In Mosul, in Iraq, all but the last alleyways of the Old City were back in government hands as The Economist went to press on July 210th.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Murderous thugs, buxom prostitutes, and desperate junkies populate the crowded streets, dirty hotel rooms, and dark alleyways of Ceesepe's transgressive universe.
We were part of a team who tailed along with those sex workers as they plied their trade, ducking into cars and alleyways to sell their services.
In an effort to be more conscious, I ventured into Vancouver's alleyways to find something edible for myself and perhaps some baked goods for a food bank.
Underpasses, bridges, alleyways, delivery trucks, service entrances, corner stores, mailboxes, water towers, exhaust vents, and the streets—in the nineties, at least, all were covered with graffiti.
Lately he had been pedaling a rickshaw, earning about $2 a day ferrying passengers through the warren of alleyways in a run-down part of metropolitan Manila.
We were on Filis Street — a warren of alleyways and dingy two-story houses — which has been home to Athenian brothels for most of the past century.
The old city — a city of medieval alleyways and labyrinthine streets — was, from 1853 onward, gradually being bulldozed under Emperor Napoleon III's chief architect Georges-Eugène Haussmann.
They target crowded streets and escape through alleyways, sometimes even discarding their helmets in the belief that it will make the police more cautious in chasing them.
Back to the alleyways off of 7th St., scared this trick will be the one to smash your face in after he fucks you, then robs you.
For decades, the authorities in Beijing seemed bent on demolishing the city's historical neighborhoods, erasing entire swaths of the single-story warrens of alleyways known as hutongs.
Glass-clad towers that climb ever higher give quiet spaces like Pomander Walk added poignancy: The alleyways offer pockets of respite that are hard to come by.
Most visitors to Dakar opt for a trip to Gorée Island, both for its beauty — colorful buildings and alleyways leading to swimmable beaches — and its tragic history.
The blaze in New Delhi's Karol Bagh neighborhood, a warren of narrow alleyways with electrical wiring strung helter-skelter, was the second major fire there this year.
He grew up in a big courtyard of about 14 families in a Beijing hutong, traditional alleyways that had formed part of the city center for centuries.
In general, the cobblestone alleyways of the town are packed from sunset until late into the night, as everyone descends to have dinner or do some shopping.
The U.S.-trained urban warfare units are leading the fight in the narrow alleyways of the historic district which lies by the western bank of the Tigris.
The authorities do not allow a large gathering for the festival, so across Tehran people can be seen jumping over fires in alleyways and other secluded places.
The alleyways crisscrossing the neighborhood were especially dangerous, filled with trash by people pulling off the freeways to dump construction waste, and had become magnets for illegal activity.
The 13-year-old was able to slip out of his home and pass along alleyways to reach his local mosque where a couple of hundred worshippers gathered.
I thought rape only happened with strangers in alleyways and that people could go to the police and everyone would get a conviction and live happily ever after.
In cities and countries with smaller streets and alleyways, users can now take a quick bike ride to a place where they can more easily hail an Uber.
Paris is the city of light and New York…has a lot of dark alleyways (like the one Raf Simons showed his menswear collection in this past August!).
She times her walk to make it as quickly and safely as possible over the main artery of the township, through narrow alleyways and into her middle school.
Federal police and elite units of the Counter-Terrorism Service have also been fighting inside the district's maze of narrow alleyways since the battle began 10 days ago.
"Most houses in the Old City are very old and its streets and alleyways are very narrow," said Assadi, a commander of Iraqi counter-terrorism units in Mosul.
Commanders expect the battle to be more difficult than in the east because, among other things, tanks and armored vehicles cannot pass through its narrow streets and alleyways.
He was captured in front of the lime green home he shared with his wife, just a few miles from the alleyways where the bodies had been found.
From the perspective of an Orion satellite, the neighborhood looked like a rusting circuit board: tiny alleyways threaded around endless square rooftops, gray and brown and virtually indistinguishable.
During the debate, Mr. Trump struggled once again to coherently explain his policies, instead wandering down twisting, shadowy alleyways in muttering pursuit of his various claims about Mrs.
It was Sunday morning in Tripoli's old city, but only a trickle of worshipers was expected at the 19th-century Anglican church, which towered over the curling alleyways.
This, she says, often leads them to risk their lives in back alleyways with uncertified providers or quacks, or take over-the-counter abortion pills with little guidance.
There will be two walking tours (one at 12:30pm, the other at 3pm) to help guide visitors through the historic alleyways that will be populated with art.
"Tight alleyways with booby traps, civilians and ISIS fighters around every corner make the Iraqi security force's advance extremely challenging," coalition spokesman U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon said.
My colleague, Muktita Suhartono, and I had come to Surabaya, an Indonesian city with alleyways of terra cotta roofed homes, largely on the basis of a single photo.
Dozens of spectators watched the duos, one person wearing the head and another the back end of the costume, navigate streets and alleyways and jump over small hurdles.
In Gina Kim's Bloodless, the "camera" moves, shepherding the user through the alleyways of a Dongducheon, a makeshift town next to a US Army base in South Korea.
Its fighters may retreat west across the Tigris River, which splits the city in half, to make a stand among the narrow alleyways of Mosul's densely populated Old City.
In this ward, it is common to see homeless people sleeping in the park next to Central High School and overdoses are common in the alleyways behind tenement buildings.
London Bridge is a transport hub and nearby Borough Market is a fashionable warren of alleyways leavened with bars and restaurants that is always bustling on a Saturday night.
Enemies attack from the front and the rear — as well as the alleyways running off each side of the street — so keeping close to the payload is essential anyway.
Outside the well-heeled city center, there is little sign of prosperity, with most of its 244 million people crammed into rundown neighborhoods where rubbish is piled in alleyways.
In this New York, lit only by dull gas lamps, all matter of dastardly deeds can transpire in damp alleyways, without being discovered by forensic analysis and street cameras.
The Excalibur, once a maze of alleyways connecting 187 pastel-coloured prefabs, has long been a target for development as it occupies prime London land, with prime property prices.
Federal police and elite CTS units in Mosul were battling with IS fighters in the Old City's maze of narrow alleyways, along with the army and interior ministry units.
The Necessaries and Event Horizon represents another piece of his story, another unearthed gem for fans to listen to as they wander through alleyways and avenues of their own.
THERE is a clamour down the tiny alleyways of Kano's central market, in northern Nigeria, as vendors thrust fabrics at passers-by, promising the best colour, quality and price.
The combat was much worse in West Mosul—especially in the Old City, a densely populated warren of alleyways, tunnels, and souks nestled against the banks of the Tigris.
Children with runny noses and mosquito bites smiled sweetly and clung to visitors, taking them by the hand and beckoning them to inspect the sordid alleyways between the tents.
The current phase of the campaign is the most difficult as narrow alleyways in the densely populated old city limit the use of artillery, air power and armoured vehicles.
A neighbor, Mohammed Abu Anas, helped to dig through the rubble and then ran for medical aid through battered alleyways with one of the children bleeding in his arms.
I was better off walking the alleyways rather than spending yet another evening sitting at home, watching the endless stream of lies being propagated on television by the government.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem and alleyways leading to the al-Aqsa mosque were closed for a short time after the attack.
La Candelaria, with its small alleyways, historic buildings and profusion of street art, has long been one of the few neighborhoods in the city without a fine dining scene.
The "standing girls" of Tijuana, known locally as the Paraditas, line the walls of Coahuila and surrounding alleyways, waiting for one of the many male shoppers to pick them up.
"Sure there is money coming in," said Reza Alaverdi, a porter at Tehran's grand bazaar as he was pushing a cart laden with locally produced shirts through the narrow alleyways.
Western Mosul is expected to witness much tougher urban warfare, with many narrow streets and alleyways preventing movement by tanks and armored vehicles that would give Iraqi forces an edge.
High above the Tokyo's fashionably grungy Shibuya alleyways and Roppongi's party-weary streets, brightly-colored helium balloons fill the air over desks in the offices of the e-commerce darling.
During that time, I drove through south Los Angeles alleyways, flipped through coroner reports and interviewed more than 100 people, including women who pointed fingers at their husbands or boyfriends.
Collectively, this all proves too much ground to cover in 134 minutes, particularly since Crimes of Grindelwald has a habit of wandering off into corners and getting lost in alleyways.
The famed Shanghainese writer Wang Anyi once wrote that to understand the soul of Shanghai one must first decipher the maze of its longtangs, the snaking alleyways of the city.
Mr. Franklin was arrested in 2010 in front of the home he shared with his wife, not far from the South Los Angeles alleyways where the bodies had been found.
Renato Bertes, 49, and Jaypee Bertes, 28, lived with their families in a dark warren of alleyways in Pasay City, a part of greater Manila near Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Venice was hit by the second highest tide recorded in the lagoon city on Tuesday, which flooded its historic basilica and left many of its squares and alleyways deep underwater.
In Montreal, by contrast, they've been growing into surprisingly lovely neighborhood hubs, and more than 250 blocks of them have recently banded together as official Ruelles Vertes, or green alleyways.
"Firemen had trouble reaching the area because of small alleyways," Mr. Tiu said of the warren of closely built homes, some constructed of no more than plywood and scrap metal.
We are meant to recall not just the Brothers Grimm but Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now" (1973), in which the alleyways of Venice were prowled by a similar scarlet fiend.
Iraqi military and U.S.-led coalition have been countering with heavy weaponry and air strikes to support troops on the ground moving into the narrow alleyways of Mosul's Old City.
Armed with dozens of cans of colorful paint, Reddy and a team of about 700 volunteers painted the walls and alleyways of the hilltop slum over two weekends last month.
Key districts consisted of ancient little streets and alleyways inaccessible to tanks and armored vehicles, and they were so densely populated that U.S.-led coalition air strikes risked heavy civilian casualties.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As dark falls, Adeeb Joudeh, a Muslim, makes his way through the stone alleyways of Jerusalem's walled Old City cradling the ancient key to one of Christianity's holiest sites.
But while that may be true of the most treasured monuments, whole districts of less celebrated alleyways and traditional houses that gave the Old City its character are also now rubble.
But the two competing origin stories are as follows: In one, the streets were owned by the Hicks brothers, who sold the exotic fruits on these now quiet, quaint residential alleyways.
Much of the surrounding area in the Old City is made up of old stone buildings and narrow alleyways dating back to the Mamluk Period around the 13th and 14th centuries.
Cizhong spreads out from the church like the bottom half of a Chagall painting: donkeys wander the stone streets; ramshackle houses squat along alleyways; vineyards and rice paddies frame the view.
Very soon we are among the peasants in the country, the buskers and peddlers in the city, the alleyways and the factories and the earthquake ruins and the devastations of floods.
Mosul is bisected by the Tigris river, and Iraqi forces have yet to enter the western side, where 2,000-year-old markets and narrow alleyways are likely to complicate any advance.
For this assignment, from the short walks through brick alleyways and strolls through historic parks to the T rides between restaurants and theaters, throughout the city I felt connected to people.
"All of us contribute to each composition, but the melody seems to fall on me," said Takaiwa, pictured here in an area of Shinjuku known for its twisting alleyways and bars.
"This is the most peaceful way to get the message out," said restaurant owner Saif Abu Baker, as the Nablus crowds spilled out of the mosque into surrounding alleyways and courtyards.
Commanders expect the battle in the west to be more difficult than in the east because, among other things, tanks and armored vehicles cannot pass through its narrow streets and alleyways.
While some of the anecdotes have previously been reported by state media - like his 2014 stroll around old Beijing alleyways during one of the city's periodic smog crises - others were new.
Their bodies were discovered in Dumpsters and alleyways along Western Avenue in South Los Angeles, an area known for its cheap motels, liquor stores, gambling parlors, auto salvage yards and storefront churches.
In Syria, there are also bustling alleyways in the old neighborhoods of Damascus, a musician playing the oud on the pavement and, nearby, an artisan ornamenting a carved wooden table with ivory.
Set to live music by French Canadian electro pop group Valaire, Crépuscule - Raviver les braises tells the story of the backstreets and alleyways that come alive when the light leaves the sky.
Their bodies were discovered in dumpsters and alleyways along Western Avenue in South Los Angeles, an area known for its cheap motels, liquor stores, gambling parlors, auto salvage yards and storefront churches.
Measures to revamp the city center have also hit migrants, such as new population curbs and a drive to clean up the ancient hutong alleyways home to thousands of small migrant businesses.
But innovating towards anti-rape technologies that doesn't require women to behave in a certain way to avoid assault—or perpetuate outdated notions of rapists being hulking strangers in alleyways—is hard.
So far, the effort has targeted the old alleyways called hutongs, as well as crowded, slum-like migrant neighborhoods, leading some to say it is fundamentally changing the face of the capital.
Cartels extort indigenous men to cross their shipments; authorities recruit indigenous agents to go undercover; in Tabatinga and Leticia, urbanized, detribalized Indians wander alleyways by night, scrounging up liquor or cocoa paste.
She acted as a guide to the festivities, leading these reporters though Stone Town's narrow alleyways, past white walls and Zanzibar's arching wooden doors, her dark abaya, or robe, billowing behind her.
Where alleyways happen because a new apartment block needed to be built, a tiny unexpected courtyard just happens because someone wanted it to, strange engraved pillars whose original function has been lost.
The damage is mostly invisible from street level though, because alleyways leading up to the most devastated areas have been walled up where they intersect with streets that have reopened for business.
This is not the age of slender men in black capes lurking in alleyways with round bombs, just as it is not the age of political discussions in a Munich beer hall.
Measuring just 33 square miles in size, the sunny and cool island is stuffed with hip boutique hotels, thumping beach clubs, haute couture shops, white sandy beaches, whitewashed alleyways, and swanky restaurants.
"You learn quite quickly that the sex offenders you see on Crimewatch—the weirdos, the loners, the guys hanging out in alleyways—are a very small percentage of men inside," Suzy says.
The twisting alleyways are filled with the scent of sweets eaten at Iftar, the nightly breaking of the fast, including atayef, sugar-soaked pancakes with cheese or nuts, and date-filled ajwa cookies.
It's a society where secret meetings in Berlin alleyways have been replaced by parties on Mediterranean yachts, and where the Cold War's ideological tussles have been superceded by a naked lust for cash.
The things pile up in parks, courtyards, alleyways and any available open space, often dumped carelessly on top of each other, sometimes making it difficult for pedestrians to walk down a street unimpeded.
What the experts say: "...make time to wander off the beaten path to discover the splashy murals lining streets and alleyways, many of which tell stories of the area's eclectic past," Manning wrote.
Born and raised in West Point, a seaside slum with an estimated 75,000 residents, Mr. Darwon spends his days pushing wheelbarrows through the narrow alleyways that run between rows of rusty zinc shacks.
The artist and designer behind Half-Life 220's City 17 and Dishonored's Dunwall, Antonov has created disturbing, memorable, and unique worlds that simultaneously conjure images of cyberpunk metropolises and grim London alleyways.
The book's 2304 illustrations reveal similarities between sinuous walls along Japanese gardens and Libyan medina alleyways, and kindred-spirited caretakers at work on New Mexican pueblos and colorful earthen homes in Burkina Faso.
Today, Canada's oldest Chinatown is a National Historic Site, a small, colorful (especially red, for luck), vibrant community of narrow streets and alleyways, shops and restaurants, beyond the resplendent Gates of Harmonious Interest.
Prague Journal PRAGUE — With its soaring Gothic cathedrals and ancient alleyways lined with baroque architectural marvels spread beneath a majestic castle that overlooks the city, Prague can seem a place frozen in time.
It's always busy at Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Muslim quarter, and at Jaffa Gate, facing west toward the Mediterranean, where local residents and tourists mix in markets lining stone alleyways.
Off the Menu LITTLE ALLEY The name of this restaurant, selected by Yishu He, who owns it with the chef Yuchun Cheung, is a reference to Shanghai's network of alleyways, or long tang.
I had no idea where I was going and was soon lost in an intricate network of unnamed streets, alleyways, and footpaths that my map would never have been able to account for.
Although the book's three principals see their share of human tragedies—bodies caught in rubble, corpses laid in alleyways—Barker dwells less on these experiences than one might expect, given her previous novels.
The alleyways of the Heera Mandi entertainment district, set within the crumbling walls of Lahore's old city, spilled over with dancers, musicians and children who hawked garlands of bright orange marigolds to customers.
BAGHDAD — They came from the slums of this city's underclass, the alleyways and the simple halls of the seminary in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, and the outer reaches of the rural south.
What had happened to this diminutive scholar from Baghdad, in Iraq's dusty plains and dense alleyways, to leave him capable of such a self-aggrandizing pronouncement and the sickening violence that went with it?
To read Adolf Hitler's memoir, Mein Kampf, for example, is to go beyond the cardboard villain into the intellectual and emotional alleyways in which the Nazi leader found justification for what became the Holocaust.
As I stumble toward potential pork-based salvation, I resemble a confused time traveler, staggering around, head pressed against throbbing temples, constantly looking out for the most appropriate alleyways for a quick public upchuck.
And it could be a free discount for people who live on one-way streets or alleyways who might already call their Uber to pick them up around the corner on the main road.
Toting a canvas bag with the handwritten message "Against Nazis," she checks train stations, condom machines, cigarette dispensers, playgrounds, lampposts and alleyways in search of banned Nazi symbols, anti-immigrant catchphrases and political stickers.
We rented a car and headed north for Molyvos, a picturesque town of stone homes and wisteria-covered alleyways that cascade down a hill under a Byzantine fortress, within sight of the Turkish coast.
It must be savored at a slow pace, if only because many of the itineraries require steep climbs up and down terraced slopes and alleyways, offering grand vistas of the coast as a prize.
Firefighters had to fight the blaze from 100 meters away because it broke out in one of the area's many alleyways, tangled in electrical wire and too narrow for vehicles to access, authorities said.
Inside the winding alleyways of London's Camden Market, past walls of combat boots, money exchanges and bustling food vendors, a small white sign announces the presence of the complex's newest tenant: the Vagina Museum.
Iraqi commanders expect the battle in western Mosul to be more difficult than the east, however, in part because tanks and armored vehicles cannot pass through narrow alleyways that crisscross the city's ancient western districts.
While online videos showed demonstrators again confronting police on Tehran&aposs streets and alleyways, the protests looked far smaller than those on Monday, when security forces fired tear gas on crowds in front of parliament.
The Old City, whose winding alleyways were supposed to be well defended, fell quickly this week as pro-Syrian forces, including Shia militias from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, crashed through rebel lines on December 7th.
As fighting has entered into the narrow alleyways and densely populated parts of west Mosul, more residents are fleeing from liberated areas where food and water are scarce and homes are often caught in shelling.
Anyone who's ever switched to satellite mode when exploring a big city in Google Maps will immediately recognize the grid-like layout and unique glimpse down dark alleyways in these aerial photos of Hong Kong.
The bodies were discovered in dumpsters and alleyways along Western Avenue in South Los Angeles, an area at the time known for its cheap motels, liquor stores, gambling parlors, auto salvage yards and storefront churches.
Troops are meeting fierce resistance as militants retreat into the Old City, where street fighting is expected in the narrow alleyways and around the mosque where Islamic State declared its caliphate nearly three years ago.
VENICE, Italy, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Venice was hit by the second highest tide recorded in the lagoon city on Tuesday, which flooded its historic basilica and left many of its squares and alleyways deep underwater.
Iraqi commanders expect the battle to be more difficult than in the east of Mosul, however, in part because tanks and armored vehicles cannot pass through narrow alleyways that crisscross the city's ancient western districts.
Even with the aid of Google Maps and a Japanese friend, I spend ages wandering around the graffiti-splattered labyrinth of alleyways in Sangenjaya district before I spy a faint green glow outside its door.
In August, one local told El Periodico that some mojito-makers had been spotted making drinks in alleyways before going to the beach, and they were served in re-used glasses with re-used straws.
On any given morning, I'm on my bike: zipping around tight corners and down cobblestone alleyways, dodging tourists while simultaneously trying to not fall into canals on my way to school in Amsterdam's city center.
There will also be no letting up in a campaign to sanitize ancient hutong alleyways that last year displaced migrants as many were evicted from homes and businesses were shut down along the narrow passageways.
Owing to its colonial past, Macau, with its cobblestone streets, old Catholic churches and narrow alleyways, has an almost European feel to it, along with an interesting local cuisine that fuses Portuguese and Chinese flavors.
Along dusky alleyways in Kadikoy, the trendiest part of Istanbul, on the once less fashionable Asian side of the Bosporus, cafes typically have a few tables inside and many more outside — where smoking is allowed.
Situated in a maze of alleyways behind the Rialto fish market, this has been a bacaro for more than a century, explains All'Arco founder Francesco Pinto, who took over the one-room bar in 20299.
Rabbi Scialom Bahbout, 72, the community's spiritual leader, discussed Europe's migrant crisis with a visitor in the small "campo", or square, that is at the center of a maze of alleyways, some narrower than outstretched arms.
Soon, they are ducking down dark, narrow, trash-strewn alleyways into the heart of the Barangay Libis slum, accompanied by a slew of uniformed officers and as many as 10 helmeted, assault rifle-toting SWAT officers.
The deals originate in the sprawling Al Ras Market, a collection of dusty alleyways near the Dubai Creek where an array of food and spices are on display including colourful sacks of Pakistani and Indian rice.
The deals originate in the sprawling Al Ras Market, a collection of dusty alleyways near the Dubai Creek where an array of food and spices are on display including colorful sacks of Pakistani and Indian rice.
Baishizhou Journal BAISHIZHOU, China — The concrete block buildings that shade the narrow asphalt alleyways of Baishizhou are so closely situated that they are called "handshake" buildings — it is that easy for neighbors to greet one another.
As we moved through the bombed-out streets, gun battles raged, and the insurgents' improvised mortars exploded among the narrow alleyways and rubble in a last-ditch effort to halt the advance of Iraq's security forces.
So wander the warren of narrow stone alleyways in Palma's medieval center, drive inland to explore ancient olive groves and rural mountain villages, and along the way, discover another side of this surprising, sun-baked island.
Probably 90 percent of these delivery workers are migrants from elsewhere in China, and in Ms. Cao's project you see the delivery men shoving odd-shaped packages into a van, racing through the alleyways of Beijing.
After the first two hours of walking through the narrow alleyways of the souk, passing by hundreds of tea glasses, sequined-covered straw bags and leather slippers, my initial delight soon turns to an agitated haze.
The newest addition to the sprawling Knockdown Center in the Maspeth section of Queens, the club, which opened in May, lives up to its name: The dungeonlike interior is a warren of nooks and narrow alleyways.
She and a group of Second Lifers have been creating and maintaining historically accurate bars, restaurants, alleyways, landmarks, private residences, advertisements, and more over the past seven years to create a world called The 1920s Berlin Project.
Federal police and Rapid Response units said they had entered the Bab al-Tob area of the Old City, where the fight is expected to be toughest due to narrow alleyways through which armoured vehicles cannot pass.
Laptops sit in their arms displaying a split-screen of images — a man runs through the alleyways of Baghdad at night while yelling into the camera; fires from grenade explosions flash around the screen in a loop.
Her alma mater had received support from UNESCO and had served as a model school for foreign visitors, its cluster of marble-white buildings poised like an aristocratic swan among gray alleyways and sprawling, run-down quadrangles.
To understand Asia's graffiti scene you have to go to Tokyo, the region's graff mecca and a source of so much of the styles you see in the alleyways and walls of Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul.
An afternoon in Seville might include strolling down its sunbaked streets and alleyways, walking among bougainvillea and admiring its intricate, Moorish-inspired mudéjar architecture, or taking in an impromptu street show in one of its beautiful plazas.
Iraqi government forces regained eastern Mosul in January, then a month later began the offensive on the western side that includes the Old City, a dense maze of narrow alleyways where fighting is mainly done house by house.
When a band of militants led by Omarkhayam and one of his brothers overran a town in the southern Philippines on May 23, festooning its alleyways with the black banners of Islamic State, the Facebook description seemed appropriate.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese capital is sanitizing its ancient hutong alleyways, home to millions of migrants workers and thousands of small businesses, bulldozing illegal constructions and forcing shops, bars and tiny courtyard restaurants to relocate or go under.
The district's maze of mud brick homes and narrow alleyways, which militants used for years to launch surprise attacks against police, have now been replaced by a shopping complex, events hall and expansive plazas dotted with palm trees.
Heads Up Rome's cobbled, snaking alleyways lend themselves to mystery, and today's best places to raise a glass in the Eternal City are fittingly clandestine, with entrance gained by a knock, a phone call or a membership card.
Indeed, the movie's Big Apple is both figuratively and literally dark: The film's dim color pallette mimics the real-life dinginess of late 19th-century American cities; cartoon tenement buildings line cobblestone streets; and debris litters narrow alleyways.
Municipal securities, which are traditionally tax exempt, have been and remain the essential element for ensuring state and local governments can affordably access capital markets to maintain infrastructure, from roadways to alleyways, and from universities to elementary schools.
Yuan Hong, who a decade ago opened a hair salon on one of the distinctive alleyways known as hutongs not far from Yonghegong, showed up there early one morning recently to find workers knocking out her glass storefront.
A warren of alleyways and streets nestled under a railway bridge and by the side of the medieval Southwark Cathedral, Borough Market is a foodie's paradise, with stalls selling a variety of specialties from around Britain and the world.
Where recent Battlefield entries regularly plopped you in suffocating office complexes and tight urban alleyways, Battlefield 1's firefights more often stretch across massive outdoor settings, like the trenches of European theater and the dunes of the Sinai Desert.
When a band of militants led by Omarkhayam and one of his brothers over-ran a town in the southern Philippines on May 20133, festooning its alleyways with the black banners of Islamic State, the Facebook description seemed appropriate.
On Friday, state television showed Xi walking into the restaurant in a southern district of Beijing known for its traditional alleyways and courtyards, asking how much the food was and how long the owners had been in the city.
And I remember it was almost useless when guiding one of my drivers in Bangalore, an Indian city notorious for its traffic, leading me to alleyways that were too small for cars, where we were forced to U-turn.
It was discombobulating, after the prim modernity of the train, to plunge into Harar Jugol, about 120 acres of tight-knit alleyways, encircled by 15-foot walls, which is widely considered to be the fourth holiest site in Islam.
A medieval city dating back to the Berber Empire, Marrakech dazzles visitors with its array of colors, textiles, gardens, sounds and smells, and it's known for its labyrinth of alleyways where souks (markets) and bazaars thrive day and night.
As helmed by Southland's Cheo Hodari Coker, Luke Cage dives into Luke's side of the story by way of its Harlem setting, from its barbershops and jazz clubs to the dark alleyways where the bulletproof vigilante corners bad guys.
Iraqi forces have taken around half of the eastern side of Mosul, which is bisected by the Tigris river, but have yet to enter the western side, where 2,000-year-old markets and narrow alleyways are likely to complicate any advance.
Instead of careening down a mountain where they're dodging branches, roots, and trees, riders tackling the 2016 urban downhill mountain bike track in Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, have to navigate narrow alleyways, stairs, and fans screaming in their face at every corner.
Walking through a puzzle of alleyways in Bareilly, I made my way to the Dargah-e-Ala Hazrat, the tomb for 19th century jurist Ahmed Raza Khan, an expert in Islamic law who gained a strong following throughout his life.
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - On a long-disused film set outside Damascus featuring mud houses, palm trees, alleyways and camels, actors in flowing robes are making a television series that the producers say is part of a gradual revival of their industry.
One of six siblings ranging in age from 3 to 17, Muhammad grew up in the alleyways of the Jabaliya refugee camp with refugees and their descendants from al-Faluja, a former Palestinian village less than 20 miles northeast of Gaza.
Though the city is specifically known for being a "Christmas town" around the holidays, people of all religions can come, enjoy the festivities, and visit the local monuments, churches, museums, and alleyways — some of which date back to the Middle Ages. 
Gleaming with avian beauty, they appear in vivid colors as multistory murals on the sides of apartment buildings, as epiphanies in alleyways and as scattered nocturnal flocks that burst into view when shopkeepers roll down security gates where they are painted.
Dogs are everywhere in Tehran: German shepherds on leashes in alleyways; Siberian huskies frolicking in the winter snow; and chihuahuas panting through the open windows of cars, not to speak of the many former street dogs adopted by animal lovers.
As Brian Otieno was waiting to start college six years ago, he spent his days snapping pictures with his phone as he wandered the unpaved streets and alleyways of Kibera, a sprawling shantytown on the outskirts of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Many of those Reuters spoke to in the community, centered around a rubble- and garbage-strewn courtyard and several densely populated alleyways, said those on board the boat had been inspired by stories of Indian migrants starting new lives abroad, particularly in Australia.
The Carpet ShopsIf you're on the lookout for a carpet or simply wish to enjoy the post-Soviet architecture, stop by Tbilisi's Old Town, which is filled with twisting roads, hidden alleyways, and hot spots like the Sulfur Baths and Narikala Fortress.
This flat pancake lens gives you a "tried and true 35 mm equivalent focal length for the quintessential reportage style of shooting" and should suffice for street shots taken on the wing while wandering the darkened alleyways of certain Central European cities.
We feel more akin to Mediterranean authors, to Fabrizio De André's harbors, to Lisbon's smells, to Erri de Luca's Naples alleyways, to Álvaro Mutis' "Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll", to African ports, to the greasy dives in the South of the world.
A two-mile thoroughfare lined with shops and restaurants frequented by expats and locals alike, it also leads to a few remaining residential alleyways called longtang, as well as the sprawling hotel where President Richard Nixon signed the Shanghai Communiqué in 1972.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From the cobblestone alleyways to the snow-capped roofs, fans of "Harry Potter" will be able to immerse themselves into a new "Wizarding World" attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood, and the theme park is betting on their purchasing power.
Traversing Old Delhi's windy, narrow alleyways one recent morning, underneath a canopy of exposed electricity wires and a tangle of thick, fiber optic internet cables, Mr. Shafiq relentlessly rang — and kept ringing — neighbors' doorbells and banged on metal doors with a wrinkled fist.
Mr. Shafiq's work — as a volunteer, he stressed — means the solace he once found crisscrossing the winding, quiet alleyways is now an exercise in dodging screeching motorbikes and boys playing cricket in the streets, a festive atmosphere that he finds less than holy.
The family lived at first in a rowhouse — the familiar cramped accommodation of the working classes in a region where the Industrial Revolution had spread a patina of grime, grit and pollution over back-to-back homes separated by cobbled alleyways and streets.
If you're of a certain age, you probably miss them, too—the mid-sized rust-rockets that, in the '70s and '80s, powered young kids across suburban developments and down city streets, turning cul-de-sacs into race-tracks, and alleyways into escape routes.
Known in Beijing as the "bicycle-riding envoy" on account of the many hours he spent cycling through the capital's narrow hutong alleyways with his wife Barbara, Bush endeared himself to local residents with his down-to-earth practicality and apparent enthusiasm for Chinese life.
That city's government has, according to Sila Vieira da Silva, failed to generate addresses fast enough to keep up with the new shacks and alleyways appearing in these shanty towns, and does not bother to bring post into at least 11 of them anyway.
" — Nell McShane Wulfhart 36 Hours in Santiago, Chile "An afternoon in Seville might include strolling down its sunbaked streets and alleyways, walking among bougainvillea and admiring its intricate, Moorish-inspired mudéjar architecture, or taking in an impromptu street show in one of its beautiful plazas.
The warren of alleyways in the old town had become overcrowded slums as the historic buildings crumbled from neglect, but in 2006, the authorities relocated the more than 500 families elsewhere, in what was one of the Middle East's most ambitious preservation projects. Two.
From the hot streets of Tunis to the windy steppes of Siberia; from the orderly, granite buildings of Aberdeen, Scotland, to the raucous alleyways of Salvador, Brazil; and, yes, from the turquoise seas of French Polynesia to the wintery sprawl of Canada's fourth-largest city.
Arrive at his Studio 54-esque stall in the carpet souk and be led through the winding alleyways to his showroom where he houses an incredible stock of both vintage rugs from all over Morocco, as well high-quality new ones of his own design.
Following days of driving through the mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, we experienced the same wonder that travelers must have felt centuries ago — at the bustling markets, the food stalls redolent with kebabs and cumin and the cool alleyways winding among mud-walled homes.
For while prostitution is legal in Denmark, it is illegal to profit from other people selling sex, such as pimping, or to rent rooms to sex workers, which means prostitutes can end up having sex in places like parks, alleyways, behind parked cars and telephone booths.
In a Sunday Times article on January 10th he denounced the "brutal high-rise towers and dark alleyways that are a gift to criminals and drug dealers", and pledged £140m ($200m) towards replacing them with lower-rise, better-integrated estates that would help improve social order.
Through this vastness, Ralph and Vanellope set out on a convoluted voyage that takes them from the glittering towers of BuzzTube (a fictional YouTube-Buzzfeed hybrid, in case you couldn't guess from the name) to the sketchy alleyways of the "dark web," and everywhere in between.
MUSCAT, Oman — In the alleyways near the Mutrah Souk here, amid the chattering families out for a stroll or the barefoot old men playing cards outside a small neighborhood mosque, Bangladeshi and Indian tailors tend to the business of dressing Omani men in their everyday best.
What the world lacks right now in environmental variety—what a treat it was to reach the town of Lestallum, all street vendors and grimy alleyways, after so many smaller outposts—it makes up for with that feeling of being alive even when you're not looking.
Nonetheless, Mr. Depp, who at the time was in Venice filming "The Tourist" with Angelina Jolie, was said to have fallen in love with the deep, dark, romantic side of the city, slipping undetected under cover of night and stealing through the alleyways, like a modern Casanova.
This summer, they have cracked down on street vendors, limited the number of outdoor restaurant tables crowding the ancient alleyways and — most important — have sought more control over the cruise ships that send thousands of passengers flooding into the old town, a Unesco World Heritage site.
Ms. Arcade, who created the show with her longtime collaborator, Steve Zehentner, is hardly the first to note that many of the gritty streets of the city have become sleek alleyways lined by expensive boutiques, chain stores and more Citibank branches than an entire continent should need.
When the sun was high, we strode through the shaded alleyways of Chinatown, past tropical fruits pickled in chilies, batter-fried squid roe with a spicy-sweet sauce — until, finally, we burst out onto a bridge where Ms. Pongponrat had hoped to find one particular vendor.
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The battle to wrest full control of the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State will be over in a few days, the Iraqi military said on Monday, as elite counter-terrorism units fought militants among the narrow alleyways of the historic Old City.
At an event announcing this feature in Thailand, Google Maps' head of product Krish Vitaldevara says the goal is for drivers to read through the directions first to help memorize the path before they start navigating, especially since these countries tend to contain roads and alleyways without actual names.
In an effort to truly understand animals, Dr. Foster spent weeks burrowing like a badger on a Welsh hillside (earthworms for dinner, anyone?); swimming with river otters (catching fish with your teeth is harder than it looks); and skulking in alleyways with London's urban foxes, among other escapades.
Testing that claim, Black Cube, (which calls itself a nomadic art museum) and the Downtown Denver Partnership commissioned five artists to install site-specific work for Between Us: The Downtown Denver Alleyways Project, along Denver's 16th Street Mall, a pedestrian outdoor shopping space that spans a dozen city blocks.
You will be pursued in the streets and in the alleyways and you will burn by the flames of the IEDs; only this time you will be feeling the pain of what you have inflicted for decades upon the Muslims, of killing, burning, destruction, and displacement in refugee camps.
You don't have to spend all your time on Google Street View time looking up the addresses of your friends: Google has added all kinds of landmarks, buildings, remote trails, underwater worlds, airplanes and even fictional alleyways to its database of sights you can see from your laptop or smartphone.
I wanted to get lost in mazes of neon alleyways; study each holographic giant hulking between buildings; smoke a cigarette in the Yakuza-owned nightclub where each character had some uniquely gruesome cybernetic enhancement; and climb the stairs of the massive, decrepit housing complexes that are frightening in their uniformity.
An official government plan for rebuilding Baba Amr calls for disconnected apartment towers, but Ms. Sabouni suggested clusters of tree-shaped units that would expand upward as the city grew, creating natural bridges between connected houses that provide shade and echo the traditional "Sibat," or covered alleyways, of Old Homs.
Bites Late on a Saturday night in San Sebastián, in Spanish Basque Country, crowds spilled out of the crammed, loud pintxos bars that hold such a prominent place in the city's culinary scene, like Borda Berri and Atari Gastroteka, and into the cobblestone alleyways of the Parte Vieja, or Old Quarter.
In the center of Willemstad, near the cobblestone alleyways of the buzzy Otrobanda district, the island's proximity to South America is most pronounced at the floating food market, where Venezuelan traders sell produce — mangos, melons and coconuts — to the restaurants of Curaçao's thriving culinary scene, centered in the city's Pietermaai district.
People had told me the city was ugly and congested, basically a stopover, yet I remember the first romance of its winding, cracked stone alleyways overgrown with jasmine creepers and bitter orange trees, the roving packs of stray dogs, cats sunning on ruins, the smell of leather, honeysuckle and dust.
Instead, skiers find more than 7,500 feet of off-piste terrain: steep alpine faces, 3,363-foot couloirs and rolling glacier runs — all reached by the Téléphérique, a rainbow-colored lift that rises from a maze of old stone houses, narrow alleyways and a smattering of restaurants, hotels and ski shops.
While Iraqi troops were still mopping up the last pockets of resistance and could be facing guerrilla attacks for weeks, the military began to savor its triumph in the shattered alleyways of the old city, where the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, put up a fierce last stand.
"Instead of wondering where else you should have been if you weren't here right now, look around and appreciate all the beauty that's right here around us," he said, declaring his allegiance to the alleyways of Lower Manhattan and pulling on the last syllable like a trombonist finishing a solo.
"Kenosha Sheriff's Department investigators are asking residents and businesses within a one-half mile radius of Teezers Bar to check their backyards, alleyways, and properties for anything they may consider suspicious or strange, this could include clothing, a weapon, or any other object they think may be suspicious," the department said on Facebook.
Ceyda Torun prowls the alleyways, rooftops, restaurants, piers and fish markets of Istanbul with seven of the hundreds of thousands of cats that call the city's streets their own: Sari, the hustler; Duman, the gentleman; Bengu, the lover; Aslan Parcasi, the hunter; Gamsiz, the player; Psikopat, the psycho; and Deniz, the social butterfly.
On its surface, there is nothing linking a fleet of transformers to a delicate weed, but the anonymous art collective simply known as the Art Department — known for constructing a teahouse in Griffith Park, dropping jacaranda petals in alleyways, and nurturing bioluminescent algae — has found a way to show a kinship between these two subjects.
In "Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide," the English writer Charles Foster describes his experiences living underground with badgers, swimming with otters and skulking overnight in alleyways with the foxes of East London, all in an effort to "know what it is like to be a wild thing," as he puts it.
Video footage smuggled out of the North reveals these early markets as primitive gatherings on the muddy outskirts of large cities or else down discreet alleyways, merchants squatting or standing above their wares spread over tarps on the ground or gathered in homely sacks that could be readily snatched up should an official arrive.
And, as a case-in-point in his admiration of Weegee, there's a series of photographs from an unpublished assignment called "Love Is Everywhere," in which Kubrick is photographing couples embracing on fire escapes, couples kissing in theaters and in alleyways, and they're all made with infrared photography, which is directly inspired by Weegee photographs.
A tale of warring biker gangs and a hefty, state-sponsored finder's fee for whoever can help the police capture the cop-killer among them, Wild Goose is as sly and serious as a classic noir, all flashbacks and fatalism punctuated by cigarette breaks and romps through seedy alleyways, scheming lovers, and a seemingly endless array of double-crossings.
In his 2013 book Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist, author Jim Elledge notes that, when Darger lived with his father in Chicago's poorest, seediest neighborhoods, he would have seen prostitutes of both sexes plying their trade in dirty alleyways, and that sexual abuse and dysfunction were hallmarks of his environment.
The bustling Grand Bazaar, the cafes, the pathways along the Bosporus bordered by enormous, craggy rocks, the people of all ages and manner of dress fishing in the cerulean blue waters, the majestic mosques, grand palaces and hotels, and the picture-perfect narrow alleyways beckoning travelers to careen through their zigzagging routes: all of it simply oozed Turkishness.
But as with modern sin-tax regimes that impose high taxes on disapproved activities (such as New York City's cigarette tax), booze buying and selling simply went underground, to "speakeasies" – unlicensed bars – street corners, and alleyways; "bathtub gin" and smuggled Canadian whiskey replaced some of the distilled spirits that many people still very much wanted to imbibe.
" There's a meticulous realism to Edugyan's rendering of each place that this grand, old-fashioned, overstuffed plot passes through, from "London streets with their laughter and dirty-cheeked children, their ill-lit alleyways alive with the bright hiss of rats," to the North African desert, where a sweltering Wash notes that "the air felt very tight, full of salt.
With 22007 to 22008 men — no women — crammed together into the back of each Toyota pickup, their arms and legs spilling over the sides, the vehicles pop out of alleyways and follow scout cars that have zoomed ahead to make sure there are no pesky police officers or border guards lurking who have not been paid off.
And in Beijing, where Banyan lived when its bid for the 2008 games was accepted, a corrupt Communist elite, on the pretext of preparing Beijing for its global debut, displaced hundreds of thousands of people and razed the hutong, the network of alleyways laid out in the 13th century when conquering Mongol armies settled around the emperor they had just installed.
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"We are trying to keep families inside their houses and, after we secure their block, we will evacuate them through safe routes," Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi, senior CTS commander in Mosul, told Iraqi state TV. The militants are moving stealthily in the Old City's maze of alleyways and narrow streets, through holes dug between houses, fighting back the advancing troops with sniper and mortar fire, booby traps and suicide bombers.
Guerrilla flower "flashes" — such as those by the married Melbourne-based duo called Loose Leaf, whose giant wreaths appear suspended in air amid the city's alleyways like portholes to another dimension, as well as those by the Manhattan florist Lewis Miller, who has, under cover of night, turned the city's bedraggled mascots, the waist-high metal mesh garbage cans, into giant vases — are taking the most evanescent of the decorative arts into places it has rarely gone.
It's heavy in the pregnant haze with its hands around skyscrapers' necks, aglow in the turned-on buzz of street lamps sweating over empty alleyways, and aching in the distance between you and the subway train rushing past that takes your breath away; cities ooze sex—even if you're not having any—and artist Megan Christiansen's debut photo book, BAD BOY, captures the love-hungry libido of New York City like it's 9 1/2 Weeks for the Tinder generation.
While Ma didn't cook for me, she taught me a vocabulary that forced me out into the world, peering into other people's homes, knocking on doors of strange shops in alleyways, forging relationships with samosa sellers in our neighborhood, watching on as others bustled around stoves for hours at end, producing steaming pots of food that I would grow up to love: kosha mangsho with floating black cardamom and thick chunks of meat, rajma chawal in which spicy red beans fell over hot white basmati rice.
Our guide, Nick, started us off at Xiahai Miao (Under the Sea), a Buddhist temple with an adjacent vegetarian restaurant (the Eight Treasure Noodles were quite good), then walked us through the former Jewish Ghetto, where 20,000 refugees lived during World War II. Winding our way through the nongtang (old-fashioned alleyways) passing humble apartment blocks with European-style balconies, we ended up near the intersection of Dongyuhang and Anguo Roads, where I found the sheng jian bao of my dreams in a small storefront.

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