However, their players would not traverse its boulevards in cars.
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It even had a grid, boulevards and a main plaza.
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It quickly spread up and down residential streets and boulevards.
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Des siècles d'histoire et de vie peuplaient les boulevards ombragés.
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Moscow impressed me with its wide boulevards, beautiful river and orderliness.
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On the main boulevards, it is Pyongyang with empty Armani stores.
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Distressingly slow corporate-sponsored balloons do not lumber down the boulevards.
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Centuries of accumulated living were packed inside the tree-shaded boulevards.
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We want world-class museums, immense parks, rare shops, grand boulevards.
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From lowriders on the boulevards to DJs playing it in backyard parties.
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And the city's widest boulevards often had trains running down their middles.
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Tear gas and water cannons have been deployed on elegant Parisian boulevards.
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Sketches from the project's British architect show rooftop gardens and wide pedestrian boulevards.
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Riders must rely mainly on a network of bicycle boulevards and cut-throughs.
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I have walked up and down boulevards, trying to remember my father's stories.
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Here, graystone homes and brick cottages line elegant boulevards with wide, grassy medians.
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It is now known for its big, windswept boulevards, typically empty of people.
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Enraged Parisians flooded the boulevards, overturning buses and cutting down trees to form barricades.
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Showcased in the video are aerial shots of wide green boulevards and swimming pools.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Strolling along elegant boulevards is one of the pleasures of visiting Paris.
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Many Cubans were staying home in order to avoid extensive closures of main boulevards.
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Traffic flowed down the mud-streaked boulevards and cleanup crews sawed apart downed trees.
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A freezing wind rushes off the Hungarian plain and whips the grand 19th-century boulevards.
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Last month, another bomb killed 28 Turkish military personnel on one of Ankara's main boulevards.
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It wasn't until the 19th century that tree-lined boulevards became common in European cities.
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There are Martin Luther King boulevards all across the country that were something else before.
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Along the vacant Communist-designed boulevards of East Berlin, few if any residents spoke English.
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Aleppo has lots of broad, French-style boulevards wide enough to accommodate the new stores.
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I was finally feeling at home amid the city's grand boulevards and splintering medieval passages.
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"Which way is the river?" she asked, scanning the narrow boulevards snaking in every direction.
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The newest Select line, along Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards in Queens, opened this month.
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I take the metro to Grands Boulevards and pop into the Prêt à Manger on Haussmann.
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THE VEHICLES on Beijing's boulevards offer little evidence that China has a car industry at all.
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However, the scenes of Romanians thronging Bucharest's broad boulevards and other cities every evening since Jan.
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Or, step into the frenetic present, exploring the boulevards and back lanes of the old city.
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To gain more mobility options, Genoa has for years built entire boulevards over creeks and rivers.
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Videos posted on social media showed Eritrean women singing for peace along the city's main boulevards.
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WITH its tree-lined boulevards Moscow's Bogorodskoye district is an island of calm in the clattering metropolis.
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Trams hum along boulevards lined with elegant cafes and clogged with the cars German companies manufacture here.
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His design included large, leafy boulevards that flowed into a circle at the center of the city.
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It will have about 150 seats indoors and out, Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Napoleons of the virtual boulevards, they are locked in an escalating battle for power — and your wallet.
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She skipped Catholic school to ride in a red convertible with a German girlfriend down broad boulevards.
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State television broadcast drone footage of the palace boulevards lined with large Afghan flags for the occasion.
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"Everyone to the polls!" proclaimed psychedelic billboards strung over Tashkent's broad boulevards, but not everyone heeded the call.
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Instead of Cairo's teeming slums and cramped alleys it features wide boulevards and neat rows of high-rises.
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The violence occurred at one of the world's most renowned boulevards, just three days before France's presidential election.
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Lavish window displays of designer handbags and shoes shimmer on the chic boulevards of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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Now, Los Angeles has so much more to offer than box office smashes and boulevards of broken dreams.
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On Wednesday night, the police had sealed off the capital's main boulevards, hoping to prevent crowds from gathering.
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"These boulevards are treasured in Kansas City and rightfully so," said Vernon Percy Howard Jr., the group's president.
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This city of 650,000 people is full of palm-lined boulevards, trendy boutique stores, and shimmering condo buildings.
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With its wide, European-style boulevards, incredible food, raucous nightlife, Buenos Aires is a city unlike any other.
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Notre-Dame is far more to Paris than the Eiffel Tower or the grand boulevards ever could be.
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It was early April, and I wandered through the wide boulevards, somewhere deep in northeast Berlin, breathing nervously.
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The most visible donut in Los Angeles floats above the corner of La Cienega and Manchester Boulevards in Inglewood.
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World on fire Fires burn on shut-down boulevards, protestors throw rocks and bottles, armor-clad security forces advance.
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The air was breathable; the sewers worked; yellow-and-green buses ferried people through its broad, gulmohar-lined boulevards.
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The boulevards in cities including New York, Washington, London—even L.A., where humans rarely walk—were riverine with marchers.
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This gave way to a city of wide boulevards, electric gas lights, and (a new invention), department store shopping.
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The city became a major economic center, with broad boulevards, onion-domed Orthodox churches, villas, department stores and hotels.
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With its six lanes and tree-lined medians, it is one of the great boulevards of the United States.
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Melrose Avenue and a bevy of boulevards — Pico, Sunset, West Adams, Hollywood, Ventura and Olympic — have been explored since.
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This year's 17-mile walk will travel along Beverly, one of the city's oldest boulevards, for the first time.
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The Champs-Élysées ranks among grand boulevards such as Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and Oxford Street in London.
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The complex has wide boulevards for the many buses bringing workers in and the freight trucks carrying products out.
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The old structures were replaced with Soviet-style apartment blocks, wide boulevards, and imposing halls that embodied the socialist spirit.
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" Unfortunately for Graham, the Post says Trump's vision for the proposed event includes "tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington.
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For the current election season, lampposts along Kolkata's boulevards shimmer at night in spirals of pearl-and-cobalt fairy lights.
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In August 1944, as the Germans prepared to abandon Paris, the city's citizens erected hundreds of barriers across its boulevards.
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In Fremont, California, delayed traffic signals on main boulevards and rush-hour turn restrictions were imposed to deter Waze users.
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The serpentine trees and technicolor foliage will always hang low over the bending roads and residential boulevards surrounding Cleveland Ave.
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Moving deeper into the park, we discovered that the wide boulevards were much less crowded than the streets of Shanghai.
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In the 19623s, we saw a sunnier David on the boulevards of pop but for me it was not an improvement.
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But along the old boulevards of Dakar, the capital, thousands of talibé—the "seekers" attending nearby religious schools—beg for change.
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In the capital they chanted "This government will fall" and sang the national anthem in one of the city's main boulevards.
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At the time, witnesses described scenes of buildings and boulevards manned by the terrorist group instead of the usual Iraqi forces.
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The race begins at Dodger Stadium, moves downtown and continues west along Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards then southwest toward Santa Monica.
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It is five miles, along curved, manicured boulevards, to Our Lady Queen of Angels, the Catholic church that the Bryants attended.
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Afterward, I walked along Aleppo's boulevards and admired the tall apartment buildings that seemed like the very heart of the city.
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On December 1st rioting broke out on the tree-lined boulevards of central Paris, including Avenue Kléber and the Place de l'Etoile.
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Weirdly enough, the location is around 14 blocks from another planned Supercharger station, at the corner of Santa Monica and Lincoln boulevards.
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Trucks choke boulevards lined with factories, many bearing the names of American-born companies: Medtronic, Hill-Rom, DJO Global and Greatbatch Medical.
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Neither the snarl of Bogart's disappointed romantic nor Mitchum's amused languor leave any trace on the boulevards or in the subway cars.
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Lukashenko likes to appear in military uniform on Belarus' national days, when the army parades Soviet-style down the grand Minsk boulevards.
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The scene was replicated on the shopping boulevards of Paris, in the malls of Dubai and on the streets of Hong Kong.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Lined with Plane trees, the boulevards of Shanghai's former French Concession retain a distinctly Parisian character.
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The birthplace of the tango has wide boulevards, beautiful parks, and stunning historic buildings, like the Teatro Colón, an opulent opera house.
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Wide, leafy boulevards and enormous, opulent palaces are side-by-side with winding alleys and cobblestone squares full of horse-drawn carriages.
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Impossibly thick groupings of electrical wires, micro-thin streets and strangely stacked homes exist side by side with gargantuan edifices and broad boulevards.
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The wide, tree-lined boulevards are perfect for an early afternoon bowl-walk, and at night, Logan's music scene is grungy and loud.
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Logan Square, a handsome district in north Chicago with wide boulevards and big, stylish houses, seems set to become such a "global neighbourhood".
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The giant presidential portraits that have sprouted up on the country's major boulevards in the last two years are a testament to this.
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Voters in Kansas City on Tuesday decided overwhelmingly to remove Martin Luther King Jr.'s name from one of the city's historic boulevards.
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Capturing the sense of liberation after World War II, Dubuffet lays out the grand boulevards of Paris filled with shops, cars and pedestrians.
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The attack was unusual because it occurred in Jaffa, a place where Arabs and Jews often mix along the usually crowded seaside boulevards.
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He felt less isolated here, more a part of things, looking out from his windows onto one of the city's most stylish boulevards.
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London planes are towering trees with camouflage-patterned bark that are planted along boulevards around the city because of their majesty and durability.
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"To take a walk around the Garnier is not especially nice," he said of the severe 19th-century area of the Grands Boulevards.
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Treating fashion as reality rather than backdrop, Oscuro's unfiltered shots feature childhood bedrooms, overgrown backyards, and LA's wide boulevards, skinny palms looming overhead.
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And Apple is moving in right across the street, to a new four-story headquarters at the intersection of Washington and National Boulevards.
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The Yellow Vests refused familiar tactics of French protest movements, preferring to occupy rural traffic circles rather than march down symbolic Parisian boulevards.
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Delirious supporters draped in the Tricolor flag spilled on to Parisian boulevards as the blare of car horns reverberated through the French capital.
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For proof, look no further than this video of North Carolina funk band Boulevards playing "Move and Shout" at the festival's Galaxy Barn.
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In the middle of it all was the Galaxy Barn, an entirely solar powered stage that featured stunning performances from Black Mountain and Boulevards.
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"Between 1950 and 1985, around a hundred 'bostons' in the walled city were destroyed to make way for boulevards, hospitals, and housing," he says.
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With its narrow medieval streets and its 20303th-century boulevards, the transport reformers seek above all to discourage cars that do not carry passengers.
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Making their way through busy metro stations and down crowded boulevards, the teenagers have everything timed perfectly, using burner phones to coordinate their positions.
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Long before the trees were used to line our boulevards, Native Americans ate their dates and wove their fronds into sandals, baskets and roofs.
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The second oven bit the dust beneath Veng Sreng Bridge—a twisted hellhole of an intersection involving a steep climb to pass over crowded boulevards.
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BMW -- went down in one of L.A.'s busiest intersections ... Sepulveda and Santa Monica Boulevards, and Shaq happened to be driving by in the aftermath.
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Faced with the newly completed Expo Line overpass at Venice and Robertson Boulevards, however, I found myself confused, unable momentarily to see where I was.
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In addition to razing crooked medieval streets to build grand boulevards and public gardens, Haussmann oversaw the installation of approximately 20,000 gaslights throughout the city.
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Promartyr were on a bill with BADBADNOTGOOD, Julia Holter shared a bill with Boulevards, and local artists like The Woolen Men backed it all up.
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Last year, hundreds of people staged weekly protests in Hanoi, the capital, over a government plan to chop down 6,700 trees from the city's boulevards.
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Budapest, a capital known for its grand boulevards, thermal spas and baroque architecture, is one of Central Europe's treasures and is the country's biggest draw.
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Today Transport for London proposed plans to eliminate vehicles on Oxford Street, one of the busiest and most polluted boulevards in London, by next year.
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Riyadh felt Floridian: wide boulevards with shiny skyscrapers and palm trees, malls and luxury shopping as primary entertainment, development concerned more with image than substance.
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Grand villas fronted onto tree-lined boulevards, and the verdant plazas and parks called to mind elegant green spaces in the capitals of Western Europe.
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" He added, "We don't expect this kind of thing to happen because there are no large thoroughfares, no big avenues or boulevards going through our neighborhood.
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For months, tear gas clouded the boulevards of Paris most Saturdays as protesters skirmished with riot police, whose heavy-handed response drew condemnation from rights groups.
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For months, tear gas clouded the boulevards of Paris most Saturdays as protesters skirmished with riot police, whose heavy-handed response drew condemnation from rights groups.
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He was referring to the network of graceful boulevards the landscape architect designed to connect Buffalo's parks, many of which have since been converted to freeways.
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"Organized around long axial boulevards, the city is punctuated with gargantuan monuments and memorials, with statues and mosaics of the leaders everywhere you look," Wainwright said.
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Roger Cohen Opinion Columnist PARIS — City of leafy boulevards, of Haussmann's perspectives, Paris is also a collection of villages beset by old jealousies and family feuds.
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Paul and Charlotte, N.C.; improvements to bike infrastructure (which include bicycle boulevards, bike parking, better streetlights); the creation of designated bike lanes as in Boulder, Colo.
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"I drove down the boulevards, and I saw all of the buildings under construction and how Vietnam is thriving," Mr. Trump told Mr. Trong on Wednesday.
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The city's low-sling sprawl, best traversed by automobile, necessitates a visual language that commands attention as you speed by on freeways or meander down boulevards.
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The city government first tried to discourage people from peeing in the streets with the installation of public toilets, or "pissoirs," on major boulevards in the 1830s.
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The art form dates to 1858, when Gaspard-Félix Tournachon photographed the rooftops and boulevards of Paris from a hot air balloon 1,600 feet above the city.
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Residents thronged Pyongyang's boulevards on a sunny spring morning, some practising for a parade to be held on the weekend, with no visible sign of the tension.
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Our city has some seriously influential boutiques, from those with decades of history on legendary boulevards to fresh arrivals lining the blocks of entirely new shopping districts.
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In the heart of European Istanbul, Istiklal — which means independence in Turkish — was once called the Grande Rue, modeled on the wide boulevards of other European cities.
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They're among an army of riders working for the British-based Deliveroo firm who have rapidly become a familiar sight pedaling up and down the city's boulevards.
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The André Le Nôtre gardens at Versailles are justly famous, as are the Tuileries: Their formal boulevards have the kind of symmetry that stills a worried heart.
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Its streets are lined with single-family homes and low-rise apartment buildings, while its main boulevards and thoroughfares feature strip-mall businesses and fast-food restaurants.
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Older Americans, Brooklyn fashionistas and families willing to pay top dollar come to stay in one of the opulent, albeit shabby, old homes that line Havana's boulevards.
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These neighborhoods are great places for long walks — to parks, pubs and blues clubs — on both landmark boulevards and a landscaped trail where freight trains once rumbled.
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He didn't want me driving the rented S.U.V. I felt sort of virtuous among the shopping centers, vast parking lots, and wide clogged boulevards, but also inconsequential.
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In Pyongyang residents thronged boulevards on a sunny spring morning, some practicing for a parade to be held at the weekend, with no visible sign of the tension.
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Seeking to clear streets quicker than before, police fired tear gas and charged with batons at flashpoints from big shopping boulevards to bar-lined streets and railway stations.
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It is refreshing, particularly for a foreign-financed production, to move away from the cobblestones and boulevards of Paris to the gritty contradictions of France's neglected second city.
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Frugal Traveler During strolls along its quiet, tree-lined boulevards, there is a decidedly intimate, rustic feel that pervades Kobe, Japan, despite its population of nearly 1403 million.
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The Mediterranean region of Catalonian is thronged in the summer months with tourists drawn to its beaches and the port city of Barcelona's museums and tree-lined boulevards.
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They're so common, in fact, that each year police erect a designated homophobe corral at the corner of Santa Monica and La Cienega Boulevards to contain the protesters.
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The sands of Panama City Beach are the color of polished bone, its wide boulevards a riot of tacky and welcoming crab shacks, surf shops and putt-putts.
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But instead of going to the sunny, wide boulevards of Arizona or Silicon Valley, it's focusing on navigating through the windy roads of a dense, packed urban area.
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Now black-uniformed police officers with assault rifles are stationed under big umbrellas at resort roundabouts and in armored trucks on the French-colonial boulevards of the capital.
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One idea gaining traction is newly developed satellite "smart cities:" ambitious multi-billion dollar, hyper-livable tech cities populated with bustling, beautified boulevards, private condos and luxury cars.
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The Mediterranean region of Catalonian is thronged in the summer months with visitors drawn to its beaches and the port city of Barcelona's museums and tree-lined boulevards.
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Wilson, walking part of the way, visited the boulevards of Paris and went to Brentano's book store on the avenue de l'Opéra, where the President bought some books.
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Bollards are not unique in this process; we are talking here about the introduction of widespread phenomena such as master plans, social housing, commercial boulevards, public squares, and passages.
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This history of Surrealism opens in Paris in 1911, when artists and writers, seeking fertile ground beyond Cubism, were trading the hills of Montmartre for the boulevards of Montparnasse.
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This is a record replete with references to prison reform, Kalief Browder and Trayvon Martin, and the Carters' reception on Martin Luther King Boulevards as a testament to success.
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Seeking to clear streets more quickly than before, police fired tear gas and charged with batons at flashpoints from big shopping boulevards to bar-lined streets and railway stations.
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"Governor Scott: There is no confidence in Sheriff Israel," reads the green billboard on the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 between Oakland Park and Sunrise boulevards in Broward County.
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That has led to campaigns to rename boulevards dedicated to him, tear down his statues and even remove images of him and his conquest from the 100-peso note.
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From the boulevards of Barcelona, Spain, to the canals of Venice, local officials have been struggling to deal with a similar problem: being loved too much, almost to death.
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A modern-day peasants' and workers' revolt against a president increasingly disdained for his regal remove turned the country's richest boulevards and most prominent landmarks into veritable war zones.
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Macron has warned that the violence which turned some Parisian boulevards into battlefields on Saturday risked unnerving foreigners, though he acknowledged on Tuesday that many protesters held legitimate grievances.
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On Saturday, boulevards that should have been packed with tourists and Christmas shoppers resembled battle zones, as smoke and tear gas hung in the air and debris littered the ground.
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Instead, these are South Korea's smartphone zombies: distracted walkers wandering the city's sidewalks and wide boulevards, seemingly oblivious to everything except the latest text, alert, or notification on their phone.
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Potent storms deluged the Washington, D.C. area Monday morning, marooning drivers atop their vehicles, transforming boulevards into brown rivers, filling parking garages with water, and dumping rainwater into the Metro.
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Just look at the language of Mobility Plan 2035, a proposal recently approved by the City Council that advocates the creation of bicycle and bus lanes on many major boulevards.
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Many shops in Kowloon had shut early, even on big retail boulevards, in anticipation of clashes that have tended to turn nasty at night as front-line activists attack police.
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Denino has just eaten lunch at a run-down Chinese restaurant and is walking along one of the desolate boulevards that characterize out-of-the-way parts of Los Angeles.
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Anchored by broad, palm-lined boulevards running east-west, the area is known for its 2400s and '27s architecture, predominately Spanish but with pueblo, Craftsman and other styles mixed in.
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The Paseo, as many locals call it, is one of the oldest boulevards in the city and runs north to south through a predominately African American section of the city.
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Potent storms deluged the Washington, D.C. area on July 8, marooning drivers atop their vehicles, transforming boulevards into brown rivers, filling parking garages with water, and dumping rainwater into the Metro.
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India's Burj Khalifa-plan is a part of the government's "dream project" of beautifying huge swathes of industrial wasteland by setting up green boulevards, maritime museums, lavish buildings and recreation centers.
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Thankfully, it also serves as a time capsule of all that was happening on the wide boulevards and in the cramped clubs of Los Angeles at the time it was made.
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Cyclists and pedestrians filled wide Haussmannian boulevards on Sunday afternoon, as they did around this time last year, as part of a municipal campaign for a cleaner, less noisy French capital.
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They remember all those boats on boulevards as Houston became a giant concrete bowl full of rain, but in the beloved tourist town where Harvey came ashore, they remember the wind.
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One evening in early January, colleagues from the office drove me downtown, along the wide tree-lined boulevards that framed the French colonial architecture of Saigon, to the old Continental Hotel.
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They gathered at police cordons stretched across the city's most trafficked thoroughfares, boulevards vacant at the height of the holiday season, and filmed the red lights of scores of emergency vehicles.
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Back when there was interest, they used us to bring in youthful energy—and then they cleaned the whole damn thing up to build these horrible-looking condos and tasteless boulevards.
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The next morning, at Jo's suggestion, I walked on Jiayuguan's wide, relatively empty boulevards to a local restaurant, Wu Mai Er, to try a regional specialty: Lanzhou hand-pulled beef noodles.
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The anti-Yanukovych crowds toppled a statue of Lenin and cut off the wide Soviet-era boulevards with piles of debris, pulling up paving stones and heaping them up into barricades.
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If you'd rather not have a vehicle of your own, the city has a growing network of public buses on the main boulevards which senior citizens can travel for free on.
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"Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined," Victor Hugo writes, as a means of introducing one of the depressingly symmetrical boulevards that the novel calls home.
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Slums were razed and converted to bourgeois neighborhoods, and the formerly labyrinthine city became a place of order, full of wide boulevards (think Saint-Germain) and angular avenues (the Champs-Élysées).
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Once a quietly elegant capital, with tree-lined boulevards and discreet villas designed by progressive Modernist architects in the 1920s and 30s, the city is now riddled with free-for-all construction.
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That certainly feels true when you look down on Los Angeles—a meshwork of highway laid over a fractally complex mesoscale of avenues and boulevards and a microscale filigree of surface streets.
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Every morning, on my way to the gym, I pass by his distinctively onanistic "Le Monument à Balzac" ("The Monument to Balzac," 1898) at the crossing of the boulevards Montparnasse and Raspail.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Paris is known as one of the world's most elegant cities, captivating visitors with the charms of Montmartre, the romance of the Left Bank, graceful architecture and tree-lined boulevards.
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Ananias Léki Dago, based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, takes us from the black shebeens, or social clubs, of Johannesburg to the sheet-metal neighborhoods of Nairobi and the dusty boulevards of Bamako.
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"I would take the bus down these main boulevards from my grandmother's home to Cal Arts and started thinking deeply about activating these vacant lots because there are so many," she said.
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Barbed wire was strung across some roads leading to the Lahore airport on Friday and barricades were positioned at the roadside ready to close off main boulevards should crowds start to gather.
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The MoMA show presents 33 of Kingelez's creations, including single buildings, town squares and mad little urban centers, some drawing on Kinshasa's grand boulevards and buildings in a Belgian Art Deco style.
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But the most unique change was getting rid of one-way streets and five-lane boulevards that encouraged people to speed through downtown without a thought about the businesses in the area.
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The area will be littered with small squares and narrow alleys, bearing greater resemblance to the Danish capital's medieval center than its more recent experiments with wide boulevards and large open spaces.
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He claimed fraud and led his supporters in a monthslong protest, taking over Mexico City's main square, blocking one of the city's main boulevards and even staging an inauguration ceremony for himself.
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The official city photographer of the time, Charles Marville, was commissioned to document Paris before and after the Haussmann-led reconstructions, which went from the sewers below up to broadened boulevards above.
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Under a brilliant blue sky on warm spring day, more than 70 percent of voters flocked to polling stations across Budapest, the grand capital city, with its stately boulevards lined with architectural treasures.
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That's exacerbating the chaos in the "Paris of Asia", known as much for its cacophonic horns and snarl-ups as it is for its French colonial architecture, ubiquitous lakes and tree-lined boulevards.
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The human residents live in highland villas above the town proper, which itself is unremarkably Helvetic: a broom-swept lattice of modest shopping boulevards extending outward from a scrupulously restored medieval fishing warren.
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The administrative borders of the City of Paris have remained broadly unchanged since Napoleon III's prefect Baron Haussmann carved up the grand boulevards that criss-cross the French capital in the 19th century.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Perched high above the boulevards below, the Getty Center houses one of the country's most impressive collections of European and American Art in its picturesque, hilltop citadel.
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By the time I showed up to Chrysalis in 2014, I had been living for 13 months in a sidewalk hovel in the underpass of Route 101 at Sunset and Silver Lake Boulevards.
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Aside from the strange liminal anomaly of downtown, Los Angeles is not a vertical city; it is a city of boulevards and interchanges, of 30-foot palm trees and drive-through liquor stores.
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What I actually found, of course, were broad boulevards full of cars, jazz bars and Burger Kings, people walking through parks with their children eating ice cream, waiting for buses, shopping for potatoes.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Kais Saied thronged the grand boulevards of central Tunis in celebration late on Sunday after two exit polls said he was elected by a landslide.
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Residents have tried to change that for years, and, most recently, a coalition of black leaders asked Kansas City's Parks and Recreation Board to rename one of the city's oldest boulevards after him.
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While the cosmopolitan French capital must have been a revelation to provincial and urban Canadian artists alike, most preferred painting country scenes like Bruce's to the capital city's bustling boulevards, cafés, and nightlife.
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LA is a very particular town made up of a particular people: a sprawling palm-tree'd fantasia with its wide boulevards, art-deco architecture, movie lots, incessant smog, earthquakes, and bronze-pink sunsets.
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As you are driving, Ubering, biking, motorcycling, stumbling, or walking down the endless boulevards and avenues of the sprawling labyrinth known as Los Angeles, you will eventually notice one thing: Angelenos love their doughnuts.
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Helsinki is investing in public transportation and, more importantly, has plans to tear up three of the city's major freeways and replace them with thinner roads bounded by boulevards of affordable housing and shops.
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Mexico City (CNN)On a street corner along La Reforma, one of the most iconic boulevards in this capital city, newspaper street vendors were stunned by the headlines of the papers they were selling.
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Try before you buy and decide if you want to scoot like Space Man Spiff down the thoroughfares and boulevards of your town or plod like a bold neanderthal while the future zooms by.
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Across the road from the Cave of the Devil, a narrow stairway led to the ruins, where a broad pyramid base provides views of downtown skyscrapers, majestic boulevards and planes landing at the airport.
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My grandmother's apartment is on a tiny street tucked between parallel one-way boulevards, one traveling southeast toward the heart of old Aleppo, and the other running northwest to the city's expansive outlying neighborhoods.
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Though treating the Pentagon like a personal Hot Wheels collection is hardly the worst of Trump's sins, the sight of tanks rolling down D.C. boulevards in peacetime will still be disquieting for many Americans.
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Walking along those wide boulevards with my friend Lisa Philp — an architecture and history buff who happened to have planned a trip to Chandigarh the weekend I was there — we rarely found a sidewalk.
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The exhibition also features an impressive survey of the island's spiritual, economic and cultural traditions, not to mention a replica 217 Chevrolet Bel Air, a nod to the many vintage cars dotting Cuban boulevards.
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Meticulously planned by the architect Oscar Niemeyer, it won accolades from designers and urban planners with its sweeping boulevards and layout designed to accommodate a car culture and the needs of a modern bureaucratic state.
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A skinny, north-south thoroughfare, Waverly Avenue developed in the late 19th century as a service street for the mansions then going up on the grander boulevards that flank it, Clinton Avenue and Washington Avenue.
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On Thursday, protesters blocked two major boulevards in Sofia for hours after they were not allowed near the Council building, where Geshev's supporters held up banners reading "Geshev - the People's Sheriff" and "Worthy Chief Prosecutor".
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"The actual beaches at night have been subject to increased criminal activity since the Games commenced," the Australian committee's Mike Tancred said in a statement, adding that the adjacent boulevards were spared from the ban.
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Only a few minutes' drive from the historic center of Brussels and the well-heeled boulevards around the European Union headquarters, the district is densely populated with mostly North African immigrants, their children and grandchildren.
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Across southern Europe, from the choked boulevards of Gaudi's Barcelona to the swarms of cruise liners disgorging passengers into Croatia's mediaeval Dubrovnik, residents are complaining that a sharp rise in tourism is making life intolerable.
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A few cars crawled down the wide boulevards off the beach, but there was a stillness to the deliriously tacky tableau that is Panama City Beach: No lines at the Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
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On the road to Shengzhou, the garden-lined boulevards of Hangzhou quickly gave way to an expanse of rice fields, which ended in an abrupt outcropping of lush, jagged mountains dotted with rustic agrarian communities.
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After all, as Mr. Rybczynski wrote in his new book, "Charleston Fancy" (Yale University Press), the city of 130,000 people has no world-famous buildings, no grand boulevards and few public squares of any attractiveness.
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Just hours after the blast, thousands of yellow vest protesters marched noisily but peacefully through the Grands Boulevards shopping district of northern Paris, just a few hundred meters (yards) from the scene of the explosion.
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The French capital held its first "day without cars" in September 2015, banning vehicles from some major boulevards in the city, and Hidalgo has said the event will be expanded "to all of Paris" this September.
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From Penjikent we continued to Dushanbe, the Tajik capital, to explore its wide Soviet boulevards and monuments, which have undergone dramatic beautification since a new mayor came to power, Rustam Emomali, son of President Emomali Rahmon.
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A former law faculty colleague, Jawher Ben Mubarek, said that during those tumultuous days they would wander late into the night through the narrow streets of the Kasbah and the grand colonial boulevards downtown, discussing politics.
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"Lately, there has been an implicit and unofficial acceptance of gender mixing in the work environment here," says Bader Aljalajel, who opened his coffee shop, 12 Cups, in one of Riyadh's new glitzy boulevards in 2016.
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Walk through the Latin Quarter's crooked cobblestone corridors or down the grand plane-tree-lined boulevards of St.-Germain-des-Prés and, more than once, you'll think you're inside a black-and-white Robert Doisneau photo.
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We strolled the empty boulevards, marveled at the statues of Lenin and of the notorious founder of the Soviet secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, which stood outside the headquarters of the KGB, as it's still known in Belarus.
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The population reached 50,000 by the mid-1980s, and in better days mothers and fathers pushed baby carriages along broad boulevards where flowers bloomed, families swam at the community pool and played sports in the main gymnasium.
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Wanderlust A former 23630th-century trade outpost some 24265 miles northwest of Mexico City in Jalisco state, Guadalajara is one of Mexico's most traditional cities, a place where leafy boulevards are patchworked with French Baroque colonial mansions.
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A former law faculty colleague, Jawher Ben Mubarek, said that during those tumultuous days they would wander late into the night through the narrow streets of the Kasbah and the grand colonial boulevards of downtown, discussing politics.
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As we entered these spaces, which were quieter and less traveled than the boulevards, G. slowed his pace, allowing me to come up beside him, and we walked in a more companionable way, though still without speaking.
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Right now, clunky, top-heavy sensor- and camera-loaded vehicles are carefully driving around sunny, wide boulevards of Phoenix, Arizona, or geo-fenced areas of Frisco, Texas, or highly controllable senior living communities in Florida and San Jose.
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From the air, Naypyidaw, with its modern airport, luxury hotels and wide, carless boulevards, seems almost like a mirage, since it did not exist when I toured the area 30 years ago on a rail and backpack trip.
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As soft-target attacks continue to expand the very definition of terrorism around the globe — in airports and restaurants, Christmas markets and concert halls, boulevards and nightclubs — far-right political candidates are seizing the opportunity to respond passionately.
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But many period details have been preserved, including beautiful stone mosaics in a large central courtyard surrounded by arcades, which are suggestive of the covered walkways called portici that hug miles of boulevards and vast piazzas around the city.
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Beersheba rises out of the landscape suddenly: one minute you're driving through empty fields and farmland, the next you're among the hundreds of newly-built limestone homes and palm tree-lined boulevards that give the city its distinctive look.
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For decades Nice, better known for the super-yachts that anchor in its cobalt blue waters and palm-fringed boulevards, has been a gateway for waves of immigrants arriving from France's former colonies such as Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria.
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Built as a low-rise city with breezy boulevards, public gardens and fringed by rich wetlands, the capital now resembles a giant building site with more than 100 construction projects underway in the city center alone, according to CBRE.
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In two exquisite photographic panoramas by the Brazilian photographer Marc Ferrez, dating to around 1895, Sugarloaf Mountain looms gently over Botafogo and Flamengo — the boulevards and alleys of the capital in seductive harmony with the beach and the hillside.
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"Sit-lie is not about homelessness," Mr. Caldwell said, as he took a visitor on a tour around the city, pointing out the new high-priced condominiums rising over boulevards where tents and homeless outposts once lined the street.
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Reuters' analysis of Pacific nation budgets has found China increased its concessional loans over the past decade from almost zero to become the largest financier in the Pacific, bankrolling everything from ports and airports to sports stadiums and boulevards.
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It is not deep poverty, but ever-present unease in the small cities, towns and villages over what is becoming known as "the other France," away from the glitzy Parisian boulevards that were the scene of rioting this weekend.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Flux Art Fair, which is only in its second year, has done something boldly innovative with the art fair format: created a scheme of public works placed throughout Harlem's parks and boulevards.
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But in the post-Soviet era, Lodz fell into decline, and today, grand, but dilapidated, 17503th-century factory facades line windblown boulevards veined with screeching, electrified, steel-rail streetcars — most rusted out and caked in a layer of dirt.
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Mr. Calthorpe insists that planners need to take bold steps and argues that rethinking major boulevards like El Camino by filling in with denser housing and adding a more efficient autonomous transit system is the best place to start.
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Sales have slowed to a trickle at a generation of ultraluxury supertowers along 57th Street and elsewhere, and vacancies have opened up at storefronts along the city's most lucrative shopping boulevards as rents have outpaced retailers' ability to pay.
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The 10 days of unrest, which on Saturday left some Parisian boulevards transformed into battlefields, hit Macron as he sought to counter a sharp decline in popularity, and have again exposed him to charges of being out of touch with voters.
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Sanders' supporters would surely find solace in the way that Reagan -- whose two-term presidency is today enshrined on the nameplates for airports, schools and boulevards -- was dismissed in the run-up to 1976, his first full-fledged presidential primary campaign.
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In a statement posted on Facebook late on Wednesday, the embassy had said it had received information about a "possible threat against an unspecified bus line or bus lines in the vicinity of Hotel Pliska", on one of Sofia's main boulevards.
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Instead of tearing down the walls or refurbishing the site, the city rebuilt itself down the mountain, at what is now the Città Bassa (Lower Town), a modern commercial and industrial city full of shops, cars, restaurants, boulevards and trees.
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He called his wife, Janna, and after he hung up, as he drove down Orange County's wide boulevards divided by manicured medians, he soon was telling another story, this one about the first time he played in Rio de Janeiro.
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Ms. Nightengale, a former managing editor of D Magazine, works for the Better Block, a nonprofit group that supports urban revitalization, and is involved with a movement that wants to tear down Interstate 0003 and replace it with boulevards and businesses.
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More than 4,000 military personnel took part in the event, which saw tanks and artillery roll down Evropska (European) Street, one of Prague's main boulevards that once bore the name of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Communist regime in Russia.
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" Though Holden wasn't particularly inspired by the film, he did go on to say that "this empty-headed, preposterous, possibly evil mélange of gunplay and high-speed car chases on Parisian boulevards is a feel-good movie that produces a buzz.
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Visitors to the city stroll along boulevards lined with stately colonial buildings, the legacy of 19th-century European traders who once frequented the port of Xiamen — then known as Amoy — looking to exchange sugar and opium for Chinese tea and porcelain.
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They said he had been keeping irregular hours, becoming irritable with his staff members and staying up late to play Sony PlayStation 219 or race his fancy motorcycles up and down the dark boulevards of Kinshasa to blow off steam.
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In wealthy neighborhoods of Sinsa and Apgujeong in southern Seoul, where posh boulevards are packed with flagship stores and celebrity hair salons, retail rent prices have dropped to the lowest since 2013, according to the Korea Appraisal Board and local realtors.
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PARIS (Reuters) - If you're spending time in Paris this summer and decide to check out one of the 20,000 electric scooters buzzing along its boulevards, you might want to be careful how you ride and where you end up parking.
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Reuters' analysis of Pacific nation budgets has found that China ramped up its system of concessional loans over the past decade from almost zero to become the largest financier in the Pacific, bankrolling everything from ports and airports to sports stadiums and boulevards.
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Although autonomous cars are likely to carry passengers or cargo in limited areas during the next three to five years, experts say it will take many years before robotaxis can coexist with human-piloted vehicles on most side streets, boulevards and freeways.
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Their self-driving experience, dubbed Drive4U, was the most problematic in that a driver making a U-turn ahead tripped up the vehicle and the safety driver had to take over — but again, it was another ride through bright lights and wide boulevards.
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Through the sad boulevards of Kinshasa—as the Congolese capital had been renamed—worshippers strutted (and they strut still) in glorious assemblages, perhaps matching a sharp suit with an ebony cane and a fur coat, quite possibly lifted from some faraway European boutique.
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Galloping horses here and imposing Doric columns there round out various corners; faux-Baroque facades and balconies reminded me of Josef Stalin's wedding cake-style apartments along East Berlin's broad boulevards, which have a certain retro appeal these days but still feel overwrought.
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Below were the cutting-edge (if often uninhabited) skyscrapers, the amusement parks and spotless, wide boulevards his government had created out of what, only 35 years before, had been rubble, a demolished city in which, North Koreans claim, only two buildings remained upright.
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Only in Paris, will you find such a nonchalant juxtaposition of gastronomy and pornography as the one in the city's Pigalle district, which has become a hipster neighborhood on its side streets but still recalls Times Square circa 1980 along its boulevards.
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PARIS — The solemn boulevards and quiet side streets of the 17th Arrondissement in Paris suggest Jewish life in France is vibrant: There is a new profusion of kosher groceries and restaurants, and about 15 synagogues, up from only a handful two decades ago.
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It's where he catches the bus and where he makes the long trek to the nearest grocery store, but it's treacherous: grassy medians and boulevards to the south give way to a bleak concrete expanse of wide lanes and empty parking lots.
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The Ballon de Paris is a tethered helium balloon (adults, 12 euros, or about $14) that elevates you 450 feet above the modernist Parc André Citroën, affording a commanding perspective on the city's celebrated boulevards and monuments — including Gustave Eiffel's nearby namesake tower.
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Thousands of protesters in Paris marched noisily but mostly peacefully through the Grands Boulevards shopping area in northern Paris, close to where a massive gas explosion in a bakery killed two firefighters and a Spanish tourist and injured nearly 50 people early on Saturday.
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And it was wholly in keeping with the group's well-advertised total war against the West -- a war that was always meant to be fought not only in the deserts of the Middle East, but in the boulevards of Europe and the United States.
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THE FLIGHT PORTFOLIO By Julie Orringer Henry James in his tales liked to send his much-advantaged yet inexperienced young Americans abroad, to be steeped in the superior civilization of Europe: its grand boulevards and ancient seats, its paintings, its music, its unsurpassed literary heritage.
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These boulevards offer both the best and worst of the city: there are never any pedestrians; every surface is too bright; every lawn too green, and yet every building, no matter how garish, has some fantastical story to tell if only you stop to listen.
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Then, of course, there are our huge stores whose aisles are practically boulevards; our economy-sized suburban office buildings; our airy single-family homes with self-contained ventilation systems; and the individual cars we pilot between those places rather than crowding onto mass transit.
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Today, the city's blue-and-white trams still rumble down the wide boulevards, but visitors will also find a diverse music scene, inspiring art, world-class breweries, trendsetting shops and gregarious locals determined to convince you that this west coast is the best coast.
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The classic cafes of Parisian boulevards — rattan chairs and their occupants facing the sun in all but the nastiest weather, waiters stepping nimbly over small dogs — are central to the city's street culture, but they're pretty marginal to its eating and drinking culture now.
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Kings and dictators stumped for it, priests and imams prayed for it, jihadists and protesters died for it, and militant groups and political parties campaigned for it — naming their television stations, boulevards and even themselves, after Al Quds, the Arabic name for the holy city.
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Hundreds of thousands of Romanians have demonstrated in the past week in cities across the country, thronging Bucharest's boulevards in scenes that will not have gone unnoticed elsewhere in Eastern Europe, blighted by corruption and cozy ties between business and politics since the end of communism.
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The city's wide boulevards were the fence lines between its original Mexican ranchos, with names familiar to anyone who's ever prayed to Waze to get them across town in less than an hour—San Vicente y Santa Monica, Rodeo de las Aguas, Cienega o'Paso de la Tijera.
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Picture Texas after Harvey—the wide Houston boulevards converted to canals, the confused horses wading through the blue-gray floodwater, the shudder of explosions at the flooded chemical plant, the three-year-old girl who was found by rescue teams clinging to her mother's drowned corpse.
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Mr. Rivera's elevator is in a wedge-shaped Venetian Gothic tower overlooking Prospect Park in Brooklyn, but others can be found in many neighborhoods where old customs persist, notably along the grand boulevards of the Upper East Side and the more formidable reaches of the Upper West.
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Crowds have cheered Obama's motorcade as it travels along Buenos Aires' tree-lined boulevards, handing the U.S. leader a friendlier reception than his predecessor George W. Bush, whose presence at a Summit of the Americas in 2005 was met with protests and snubbed by then President Nestor Kirchner.
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"The U.S. Embassy has received information of a possible threat against an unspecified bus line or bus lines in the vicinity of Hotel Pliska," the embassy said in a statement posted on Facebook late on Wednesday, advising its citizens to avoid the area, on one of Sofia's main boulevards.
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The shop—sandwiched between Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards, located in the same strip mall as the offices of the weekly free adult newspaper, LA Xpress—is about to turn 37 years old, and it is perhaps one of the most underrated food institutions in the city of Los Angeles.
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Whether nostalgic renderings of gaslit boulevards, subtly evocative scenes of half shadow, or starkly illuminated dance halls, these works of art record the changing appearance of both interior and exterior spaces, and suggest the ways in which Parisians experienced the city as it transitioned from old to new technologies.
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The most beautiful city on the planet appears, by some measure, as the most sophisticated of the capitals examined in this exhibition, though the photographers and mapmakers here had far more interest in Rio's boulevards and gardens than its favelas, the first of which arose in the 1890s.
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After a police officer was coaxed into organizing an escort, dozens of travelers piled into cars that raced one another down the deserted boulevards at terrifying speed, tucking in behind an enormous armored police truck that blasted its horn and swiveled its water cannons at anyone who approached.
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It contains designs for the reconstruction of London, including one by Wren, never realized, that imagines wide boulevards and large, open squares; street signs from post-fire London; and a 1660s table that was used in a special court established to settle property disputes during the rebuilding effort.
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This is a city that has long defied easy definition — at once urban, suburban and even rural — filled with people who live in homes with year-round gardens and open skies dotted by swaying palm trees, often blocks away from gritty boulevards, highways and clusters of office buildings.
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The "casseurs," violent vandals who often attach themselves to strikes or protests in France, joined in, until Saturday's eruption, when a peaceful march degenerated into a riot of flaming cars, water cannons, tear gas and destruction at the Arc de Triomphe and the broad boulevards radiating from it.
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He is dwarfed by the immensity of his craft, which itself is reduced to a mere sliver, near the beginning of the film, when it docks at Yorkville—a planet-size base that hangs in the heavens like a Christmas bauble, with inverted boulevards and skyscrapers curving around inside.
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This Saturday, the second Eastside Mural Ride will take place, offering an opportunity to see some of the colorful work lining the boulevards of Boyle Heights and East LA. The family friendly bike ride will leave Mariachi Plaza at 10am, winding up at Self Help Graphics later that afternoon.
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The fear among terrorism analysts, myself included, is that even as the ISIS leadership is scattered or killed in Syria and Iraq, the manner by which the caliphate is toppled may unintentionally give new life to the propagandistic fever-dreams of Baghdadi and lead to more carnage on Western boulevards.
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We don't want a president who goes to military school but never leaves; who loves generals but trashes Gold Star parents; who wants the sort of chesty military parade that we mock Kim Jong-un for, a phallic demonstration of overcompensation that would only put more potholes in the D.C. boulevards.
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These days, cobblestones are buried under the asphalt on about one-third of the city's streets, but they endure as the surface pavement on a few iconic boulevards and squares, like the Champs-Élysées and the Place de la Bastille, and in the narrow alleys of historic neighborhoods like Montmartre.
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The haunting beauty of the city is in part a product of a program of urban renewal in the 19th century led by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III, which included wholesale razing of old neighborhoods to create the now-beloved boulevards, parks and delicate facades.
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In truth, the spectatorial mass of the 19th century is now abetted by the glittering light and constant digital feedback of the Internet, where today's arcades and boulevards, once illuminated by streetlights above, now pulsate down an information superhighway lined with social media, online shopping, the "sharing" economy, leisure, and, ultimately, digital alienation.
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Although I've written books about Paris or set there, I never researched the Seine and so never knew some of the many things Sciolino tells us: That the "team" who lit Paris bridges, monuments and boulevards with surgical knives of illumination in the 1980s was led by a single genius, François Jousse.
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You can see it on the leafy, Paris-style boulevards that parallel the Kura River, now spanned by Michele De Lucchi's bow-shaped showpiece, the Bridge of Peace; in the proliferation of new restaurants featuring the country's Persian- and Asian-inspired dishes; and in an electronic music scene that some say rivals Berlin's.
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NEW ORLEANS — On a recent Wednesday night in an otherwise lonely part of town, a crowd of young people spilled in and out of the big, glassy building at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Oretha Castle Haley Boulevards, where the words "New Orleans Jazz Market" are blazoned above the doorway.
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Grozny is quiet and bland, with well-paved boulevards running through its center; there is still a faint air of menace—men in black uniforms stand with automatic rifles on many street corners—but the city's flashier attractions, like a man-made lake with a light show, seem whimsical and family-friendly.
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Drunk, we'd roam the streets of República, along Avenida São Luís, past the gray boulevards, the tangled nests of wires on telephone poles, the guys giving blow jobs in dark alleys, the statue of an Indian whose shadow bore down on the transvestites who gathered at Largo do Arouche to smoke joints.
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PARIS — Un rapide coup d'œil aux boulevards austères et autres petites rues calmes du 17ème arrondissement laisserait penser que la communauté juive y est dynamique : les épiceries et restaurants casher y ont fleuri, et on dénombre une quinzaine de synagogues alors qu'il n'y en avait qu'une poignée il y a une vingtaine d'années.
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The capture of Abdeslam is a triumph, but celebrations will be muted by the realization that while one gang has been neutralized, the contest is by no means over -- not on the front lines of the jihad in the Middle East and North Africa, and not in the back alleys and boulevards of Europe's cities.
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There are no shopping malls, no car-choked boulevards and no doubt where political sentiments lie: The village voted 83 percent for Poland's ruling populist party, joining a rural electoral wave that swept the party to power a year ago — even as urbanites in Warsaw gave it less than a third of their vote.
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Henceforth Degas's art was populated by denizens of modern life — well-dressed Parisians of the boulevards, cafes and theaters; hard-working laundresses bent over steaming irons; ballet dancers onstage, at rehearsal or with admirers; entertainers, especially singers, in the glow of concert halls' new electric lights; and nonchalantly nude women in private settings, including brothels, bedrooms and the bath.
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And it is the sort of anachronism that survives in this alternately booming and time-stopped city, one where glass office towers have all but erased evidence of a beloved squat and funky western stretch of Sunset Boulevard (farewell, House of Blues) and yet where Philip Marlowe's office building at Hollywood and Cahuenga Boulevards still stands.
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The flamboyant designs of the JLE stations may have won plaudits from the creatively minded— rhapsodising perhaps a little too lyrically, the Royal Fine Art Commission stated that the entire extension was "comparable to the achievement of Haussmann when he constructed the great boulevards of Paris"—but among transport engineers they were viewed with scepticism and blamed for cost overruns.
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The most durable, said Mr. Leinberger of George Washington University, is Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo. Most of the initial mixed-use developments, though, succumbed to the advent of suburban indoor shopping malls, starting in the mid-1950s, which were built along major boulevards, and elevated climate control, retail uniformity and acres of parking to top shopping priorities.
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In 1920, Akron was a city whose fast growth had been spurred by the demand for rubber tires during World War I. Goodyear and Goodrich operated 24 hours a day and filled boardinghouses with laborers who rented beds in eight-hour shifts to match the schedules of the factories, whose smokestacks cloaked the city's wide boulevards with smoke and ash.
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They consorted with actors and musicians and artists in the chic nightclubs on Tverskaya, one of Moscow's main boulevards, in the 1920s and '30s; and their team, Spartak, defied the might of the secret police and, in particular, its fearsome head, Lavrenti Beria, to become the powerhouse of Soviet soccer, what Edelman dubbed the People's Team in the Workers' State.
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And while this isn't quite "history from below", he does manage to keep much of the story out of Whitehall and the Quai d'Orsay and in the boulevards, souks, hideouts and cafes where it actually happened, in part by drawing on the private diaries, personal letters and oral testimony of average folk, as well as government documents and the memoirs of the great and the good.
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Still, Mr. Macron is taking aim at an institution that — for all its glories and faults — comes close to representing the soul of France itself, a representation of the permanent state indifferent to the winds of politics ever since Emperor Napoleon III provided a state guarantee of interest to bondholders in 1852, and instructed Georges-Eugene Haussmann to give the marbled palaces of railway stations an honored place in his redesign of Parisian boulevards.
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Perhaps you paid more attention to the buboes and the lime pits than to the narrator's depiction of the "hectic exaltation" of the ordinary people trapped in the epidemic's bubble, who fought their sense of isolation by dressing up, strolling aimlessly along Oran's boulevards; and splashing out at restaurants, poised to flee should a fellow diner fall ill, caught up in "the frantic desire for life that thrives in the heart of every great calamity": the comfort of community.
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Beyond the Boulevards des Maréchaux, the inner ring of surface streets that mark the limits of the Paris most visitors know, the uniform ranks of Haussman-era buildings give way to a crazy-quilt of styles and eras, from the orange-brick HBMs ("Habitations à Bon Marché") erected near the city limits in the 25s and '19803s as affordable dwellings — no longer very affordable at all — to their much-maligned successors, the megalithic postwar housing projects known as HLMs ("Habitations à Loyer Modéré").
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