"WELCOME TO THE CONCRETE JUNGLE," someone had scrawled in white chalk.
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THE phrase "concrete jungle" might have been coined for São Paulo.
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Until now, studying rats in the concrete jungle has been difficult.
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We are rare flowers trying to survive in a concrete jungle.
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It's the concrete jungle, and fashion, for me, is my armor.
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Everyone needs to escape from the concrete jungle from time to time.
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Jennifer Lopez conquered the concrete jungle in the most fashionable way possible.
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But creating an inviting oasis amid the concrete jungle has its challenges.
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IN A CONCRETE jungle of 23m people, the signs of spring are subtle.
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That meant more explorations in the concrete jungle – an assignment the members welcomed.
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I can't help but ask what he makes of this chaotic concrete jungle.
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The Concrete Jungle also addresses dark themes of drugs and violence on the streets.
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It allows them to hide both within the concrete jungle and the civilian population.
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Slip into cutoffs, grab a margarita to sip on, and lounge above the concrete jungle.
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Click and Grow Indoor Herb Garden, $99.95It's called the concrete jungle for a reason, right?
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A jumpy faun in a concrete jungle, Justine is a legacy student and lifelong vegetarian.
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As eSports continue to grow, those concrete jungle ideologies will still clash with glamorized marketing ideals.
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The third of an acre provides a small forest in the middle of the concrete jungle.
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It's a narrative that fits comfortably in Middle America, free of concrete jungle politics or metropolitan airs.
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After all, who wouldn't want to start out in the concrete jungle or the city of dreamers?
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One reviewer described it on Google Review as "an uncomfortable concrete jungle with no feel-good factor."
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But New York City is an archipelago, a reality that can be obscured by the concrete jungle.
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They won't interfere with your busy schedule or feel unattainable even if you live in a concrete jungle.
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And getting stuck out in the wild (concrete jungle included) without a charger is the definition of torture.
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This photo, however, captured by photographer Julian Master, caught a real Pikachu out in the wild concrete jungle.
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In the case of my apartment and the tiny house I stayed in, it's concrete jungle versus nature.
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Central Park is more than just a green oasis in the middle of the world's biggest concrete jungle.
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Face it: You're just a sack of meat with a cellphone and credit card trapped in a concrete jungle.
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LA-based Genevieve Gaignard, for example, presented a nocturnal beach scene in the Windy City's always-bright concrete jungle.
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In this concrete jungle, enjoying a bit of nature on your way to work can be a tough task.
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But communing with nature on an overnight campout is also possible, even in the middle of our concrete jungle.
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Our concrete jungle is filled with buildings, both big and small, many of which could not be built today.
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On the other hand, there's nothing like the concrete jungle to sensitize you to whatever scraps of nature remain.
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Yet, here we are, living on top of each other, trying to achieve our dreams in the concrete jungle.
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The heat is made worse by a relative lack of shade in the concrete jungle home to 9.2 million people.
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"It's the culture and the sense of community," said Ian Albert, manager of CrossFit Concrete Jungle in New York City.
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Having moved from Canada's capital to Toronto's concrete jungle not knowing anyone, Hendryx has managed to pick up some buzz.
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You may like looking up at the concrete jungle of skyscrapers, but you'll love looking down on them from above, too.
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Alicia Keys, 'Empire State of Mind' Misheard Line: "Concrete jungle wet dream tomato" Actual Line: "Concrete jungle where dreams are made of" TLC, 'Waterfalls' Misheard Line: "Don't go Jason waterfalls" Actual Line: "Don't go chasing waterfalls" Taylor Swift, 'Blank Space' Misheard Line: "Got a lot of Starbucks lovers" Actual Line: "Got a long list of ex-lovers" Lipps, Inc.
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The cacophony and lousy courts notwithstanding, nowhere else do I feel more like I am winning my battle with the concrete jungle.
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As a result, Tehran looks like a concrete jungle where high-rises with no provisions for parking spaces soar over small alleyways.
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Millennials are continuing the long migration from those school days to the concrete jungle — but they're not always prepared for the move.
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It takes a lot of gumption to make it in this concrete jungle, but your way to the top is never struggle-free.
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In addition, it sends employees field trips it calls "Camp Grovo" to allow employees in the concrete jungle to get some fresh air.
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" And more recently Alicia Keys sang, "Concrete jungle where dreams are made of / There's nothing you can't do / Now you're in New York.
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And on Sunday, he reappeared in the Pond, floating not too far away from the concrete jungle at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue.
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You may live in a concrete jungle, but that's not going to stop you from organizing the coastal carpool during every possible summer weekend.
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The humans are the foreign creatures in Detective Pikachu, not the creatures who roam around countrysides and live within the concrete jungle of Ryme City.
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Edible Schoolyard NYC is clearly exposing kids to both a skill, and a food cycle, that they might not otherwise learn amid the concrete jungle.
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But Lee was determined not to turn the island into a dreary concrete jungle, and so 'greening' went hand-in-hand with Singapore's urbanization progress.
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"POPS are desired by the government as a means to increase light, air and open space for the public in our concrete jungle," she said.
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Based on the original in Miami Beach, the bar transplants an aesthetic that's part haute hippie, part tiki to the middle of the concrete jungle.
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"To go from a concrete jungle to a seaside respite changes your vibration," said Cindy Arlinsky, a member of the club's Fire Island Cabin Committee.
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Nothing clears your head like a short break from the concrete jungle with all those sirens, pushy commuters, and angry cabbies honking at you 24/7.
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Just when you think New York City can't get any better, Chick-fil-A announces they are opening their biggest restaurant ever in the concrete jungle.
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In New York, he was the perfect missing organic link in this concrete jungle, a magic sprite who cheered up the downtrodden souls trudging the streets.
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Voyeur 12 Photos View Slide Show ' Christmas jams at the tunnel / Chop through hustle and bustle / Snow and lights make wonderland / Out of this concrete jungle.
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The concrete jungle: The UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network has released a new report on where the 100 most populated US cities rank in terms of sustainability.
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Perhaps more of us in this concrete jungle, too, can begin to appreciate the wonders of these flying creatures, and even identify with them on some level.
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Numerous organizations and local government departments including Parks and Recreations, National Parks service, Trees Atlanta and Concrete Jungle are collaborating to develop, design and maintain the project.
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This is partly why living in a concrete jungle is so stressful— we're hard-wired to need time to be in nature, just staring at the patterns.
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Spider-Man feeds that joy with the bursts of motion that spring out of your web-swinging and death-defying leaps through the breaks in Manhattan's concrete jungle.
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That's true whether the art in question is the sorrowful songs of the slave plantation, the blues of the urban enclave, or the rap of the concrete jungle.
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Referring to Carteret, she said, "This is the concrete jungle here," adding that she will have to adjust to the raccoons and snakes that come with rural living.
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For residents here, it is only ever a short step from the concrete jungle to the subtropical rainforest that flourishes on the steep, rocky hills of the interior.
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Here, King shares pictures from his personal collection and his experiences growing up in the concrete jungle of LA at a time when punk rock was young and furious.
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Related: Britain's First Black Circus Gets a Live Radio Art Tribute Collages Contrast Black TV Representation and Reality Take a Haunting Trip to Nairobi's 'Concrete Jungle' in These Images
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After quitting her job and moving to New York on an impulse, Lolita has seen just how brutal the concrete jungle can be—but she refuses to look back.
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Opening a week later, another skater movie, Minding the Gap, exposes how the gendered mandate of toughness can prove hazardous to those roving the concrete jungle of early manhood.
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Here in the concrete jungle near my home, I encountered enough Pidgeys, Ratattas, and Zubats to take me back to my days with the Game Boy Pokémon blue cartridge.
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And advice like "get to know your neighbors" and "educate yourself about relevant issues" is as valuable in the concrete jungle as it is on a fledgling flower farm.
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While an Aperol Spritz can take away some of the sweltering summer bummer, the best way to avoid the city's arguably worst season is by leaving the concrete jungle altogether.
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One townhouse owner in the concrete jungle of Manhattan has drawn interior design inspiration from the actual jungle: They have covered a luxury pad, top to bottom, in animal fur.
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That is particularly important as real estate developers convince farmers and other landowners to sell their land to build apartment towers, turning Dakar into what he termed "a concrete jungle".
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His new work, "Everything," a physical theater piece that is the culmination of a residency at New York University, reflects on the experience of growing up in the concrete jungle.
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That piece, called "Concrete Jungle Dreams of Bubble Gum," and many of the others appeared to be as ready for the Instagram generation as some of Ms. Kusama's works are.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Green-minded entrepreneurs seeking respite from London's concrete jungle will soon have a new space where they can relax, mingle and conceive the next planet-saving breakthrough.
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But the City of Glass is filled with specific spots where you can get up high to get your bearings and survey the concrete jungle around you to formulate a plan.
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Hidden among the flora is the Moxy Chelsea, a relatively new hotel with a rooftop that transports you from elbowing people in the concrete jungle to glamping in a lush forest.
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But few other beatless interludes manage to evoke both a slow double-decker crawl through a concrete jungle, and a night out in stark Arctic Tundra—in both situations, totally alone.
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Every year since 1989, the day has been commemorated by a vigil in Hong Kong's Victoria Park, a startling sanctuary of green in the midst of the steel-and-concrete jungle.
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The festival, now in its seventh year, helps us appreciate the beauty and creativity in our concrete jungle, celebrating our city's buildings with activities, exhibitions and other programs through Oct. 31.
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Instead of demanding to be airlifted to the very top of the concrete jungle where dreams are made of like a celebrity of his stature surely demands, Seacrest faces elevators again.
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Ms. Keys pays homage to the "concrete jungle where dreams are made of" in a concert special filmed aboard a Circle Line cruise and onstage at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
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While AUJIK's videos typically take place in the concrete jungle, seeing their disembodied pixels possess this remote shrine brings out the inherent creepiness of the "nature" and "cult" facets of the group.
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Even less surprising, still, is the fact that New York City dominated this list — there must be something about panoramic views of the concrete jungle that rich people can't get enough of.
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From the concrete jungle to lush tropical forests, Brooklyn-based artist Ian Ferguson's bold black-and-white illustrations draw viewers as much into the environment as to his quirky, Victorian-looking characters.
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"The tramline is now submerged in the concrete jungle of the city," said the Hong Kong artist Kingsley Ng, who sees the trams as a kind of time capsule of local history.
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The man is David Belle (pictured), one of the founders of parkour: a form of street acrobatics whose practitioners vault and flip through the concrete jungle in pursuit of ever more daring stunts.
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"I lived in a concrete jungle, and I think most people have the same experience -- they don't live near the water or their access to the water is not readily available," he said.
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The brothers explained that many Hamptons property owners are in fact city dwellers who come to the area seeking a few days of rest and solitude before heading back to the concrete jungle.
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Artist Tony Matelli is behind the latest NYC art exhibit – a very lifelike figure of a man sleepwalking through the concrete jungle in his tighty whities – that's scaring attracting tourists and locals alike.
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Xi'an Famous Foods restaurants are only found in New York City and its fast-casual menu of Xi'an-style Chinese food makes it worth a visit during a trip to the concrete jungle.
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My school is two hours from the nearest cities, Richmond and D.C. That means that I'm in a largely rural environment, which is so different than the concrete jungle I grew up in.
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Related: Take a Haunting Trip to Nairobi's 'Concrete Jungle' in These Images Watch a Surreal Rap Video from Sierra Leone Historian Launches "Living History Hubs" in Ghana Surreal Photographs Reveal Africa's Environment in Crisis
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"A truffle hound rooting through the concrete jungle" is how the singer Celia Berk described her search for little-known musical gems celebrating the glories of New York at the Metropolitan Room on Sunday.
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"Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx" has taken over the New York Botanical Garden — and offers an exuberant gust of tropical modernism that will thrill anyone caught in the concrete jungle.
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On Monday, a temperature of 44 degrees Celsius, or 111.2 degrees Fahrenheit, was recorded in Karachi, which often is referred to as a concrete jungle because it lacks large areas of plants or trees.
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His books include "Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future" (2007), written with Niles Eldredge, and "A Geologist Looks at Manhattan: A Guide to 100 Fascinating Sites" (2014).
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This is not the concrete jungle where dreams are made of—instead, it's a New York where leering men lurk at every corner (including a stalker-ish Kevin Bacon) and women are murdered and dismembered.
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The talk of 'Barca DNA' conjured up a rose-tinted vision of his halcyon days in Catalonia, before he was snatched off to the concrete jungle of North London, with its driving rain and granite skies.
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It's just a concrete jungle, so you lose that vibrancy and that life aspect, but it's matured me in a lot of ways and it's challenged me to make sure that I stay true to COVL.
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On top of that, there's also the raw mechanical thrill of swinging through Manhattan's concrete jungle as a spider-powered superhero, plus an abundance of hidden secrets and easter eggs that makes exploring it all worthwhile.
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Now, Ms. Keys is paying homage to the "concrete jungle where dreams are made of" in "Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special," a new strand of the public television series making its debut Friday, Jan.
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Scorsese has been making documentaries for his whole career, even back when he was starting out and becoming known for his uncanny ability to represent urban hustlers and lonely souls fighting for survival in the concrete jungle.
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The food may be double the rat's size, but the scene certainly exemplifies the sheer determination New Yorkers possess — and how, in the nit and grit of the concrete jungle, solace can be found at nearly every corner.
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"It was taking these city-dwelling, concrete jungle, 'all we do is go to movies, shop, and dine,' population of people and sticking them in the woods at night to scare the hell out of them," she says.
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With houses on stilts lining the river that runs through the village, Tai O is a world away from the skyscrapers of downtown Hong Kong, and is popular among locals and tourists who seek to escape the concrete jungle.
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We've discovered that all you need to survive in a concrete jungle are a trusty pair of boots that get you from A to B, and then all the way down to C, without taking a toll on your soles.
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The electronic billboards will display "Jungle-ized," a multisensory art installation directed by Stephan Crasneanscki of Soundwalk Collective and co-produced by the eco-adventurer David de Rothschild that promises to transform the concrete jungle into the heart of the Amazon.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's famous fables, "The Concrete Jungle Book" offers a gritty outlook on life where tigers and forests have been replaced by homeless people and refugees struggling to survive in an urban jungle filled with drugs and knife crime.
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That son then comes to New York (the concrete jungle where dreams are made of), where he climbs the Statue of Liberty to steal her "fire," threatens to eat his father's girlfriend's cat, and considers poison blow darts amongst his most prized possessions.
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He found work at a skate shop called Concrete Jungle in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where he fell in with the fixtures of a budding skate scene, including Mickey Reyes, who became a longtime friend, and Kevin Thatcher, the first editor of Thrasher.
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Secondly, by the fact that the show's feel and premise (a single mom raising a kid in the concrete jungle) feels derivative from Showtime's own "Shameless," and other comedies about raising kids in the [insert lower-middle-class area of a big city].
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Think about those numbers in the context of your quotidian trudge through the concrete jungle of a large metropolis: bumping into clumsy commuters, juggling your phone and heavy bags of grocery shopping, or trying to call up a Lyft on a drunken night out.
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Check out the gallery ... it's easy to see why Fleurtopia is going to be crawling with celebs and social media stars in search of the perfect shot ... there are over 20 flower photo ops, including a rose pit, concrete jungle room and infinity petal room!!!
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"Bears Ears will always be a significant healing place for young Navajos like me, who live in the concrete jungle of New York City," wrote Alastair Lee Bitsoi, a graduate student, whose essay appears in a new collection, "Red Rock Testimony," a call for protection for the area.
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Whether portraying women as provocative street warriors in the concrete jungle or as mythical goddesses placed in surrealist environments, Lady Pink, the long-reigning queen of graffiti, consistently elevates the female figure through her murals and paintings by incorporating themes of fantasy, spiritualism, her South American heritage, and indigenous iconography.
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FT. $222,807 approximate annual rent 246 East 33th Street (between Second and Third Avenues) Manhattan The District Elite Performance gym, formerly CrossFit Concrete Jungle, has signed a 10-year lease to open by the end of the year in this 32-story 1985 building, a block west from its current Yorkville location.
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I didn't know what to make, either, of the groaning, spare synths on "Welcome to tha Concrete Jungle," nor what to do with Juelz Santana, which was one of those names I recognized but didn't really know much about, The Diplomats having only made their way down to my North Carolina high school the year before.
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"Especially in Brooklyn, the concrete jungle is not the atmosphere people are aiming for," said Ashley Cotton, an executive vice president of Forest City New York, whose recently opened condo in Prospect Heights, 550 Vanderbilt, developed in partnership with Greenland USA, has window planters for units on lower floors and a communal garden terrace with individual plots on the eighth floor.
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Washington (CNN)Born and raised in the concrete jungle of Manhattan, President-elect Donald Trump's children have taken an outsized interest in the search for an Interior secretary, sources close to the transition say, especially avid hunter Donald Trump Jr. In fact, one transition source said balancing the Trump siblings' natural inclinations toward conservation has been a key factor in the search for someone to run the Interior Department, which manages lands, wildlife, national parks and Native American affairs in its broad portfolio.
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Exploring countries where English is not the most common language has given me some of my favorite skateboarding memories and photographs: Following a crew from Madagascar around the city of Antananarivo; skating the streets of Wuhan, China, on a steamy summer evening; meeting local skaters in Mendoza, Argentina; exploring the concrete jungle of Seoul by skateboard; getting lost in Tokyo after dark with a large crew of local skaters; and getting to know my adopted homeland of Aotearoa, New Zealand from a skateboarder's perspective over the last 15 years.
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