And as other French metropolises have taken note, it has
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Some invented metropolises are more clearly products of vanity and megalomania.
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Neighboring metropolises like New York and Philadelphia could crush meaningless Wilmington.
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The metropolises of Shenzhen, Kunming and Wuhan have done the same.
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It is already taking place between the big metropolises in Europe.
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But not all the world: wired metropolises yes, vast peripheries no.
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Mr West even suggests that the mice and the metropolises are linked.
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She then began adding the metropolises she was visiting in Southeast Asia.
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China's boom over the past four decades made its crowded metropolises wealthy.
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Perhaps more than many European metropolises, Madrid remains steeped in traditional handicraft.
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"Cityhenges," metropolises that lie on east-west grids, also experience this henge-effect.
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Imagine being a drone, flying aimlessly over and through American metropolises in 2016.
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Outstripped by coastal metropolises thriving on resurgent foreign trade, Xi'an struggled for relevance.
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The real problem is that these metropolises are spreading in the wrong way.
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Tallinn and Riga did it centuries before all the great metropolises of Europe.
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The sense of isolation from the modern metropolises on the faraway coast persists.
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That total handily beats much larger metropolises, including Dallas, Portland and even neighboring Oakland.
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It's one of the few metropolises you don't need a mobile phone to navigate.
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"Low-carbon transportation systems are therefore urgently required in the fast-growing metropolises," Kloppenburg added.
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And some other European metropolises, like Copenhagen and Amsterdam, are even better places to cycle.
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The weapons acquired by the YPG are now pointed at innocent Turkish people in Turkish metropolises.
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"All across the country, innovative mayors are using big data to build modern metropolises," Benjamin said.
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The political parties are aligned more than ever around blue metropolises and red spaces in between.
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Residents of China's smog-choked metropolises long ago grew accustomed to dealing with stubborn air pollutants.
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They also can fall on undermanned police departments that, especially in major metropolises, are stretched thin.
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Despite the company's controversial status in some major metropolises, there's no denying the popularity of Airbnb.
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When the conquistadors encountered the metropolises of the New World, they felt an instant sense of recognition.
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It has become an increasingly attractive tool for major metropolises overwhelmed by the traffic strangling their streets.
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Many of America's metropolises lie along rivers, coastlines and ridges that concentrate large numbers of migratory birds.
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Each of these cities are thriving metropolises, home to millions, perched next to large bodies of water.
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Ever since, these two metropolises have come close often, yet somehow always choked or simply fallen short.
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Alemayehu says an all-encompassing waste-to-energy facility is an optimal solution for Africa's growing metropolises.
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In the large, sprawling metropolises, the researchers found, flu season was more evenly spread out during the winter.
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The majority of these travellers were from the three big metropolises, Mumbai (25%), Delhi (20133%) and Bengaluru (19%).
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The movie trades in the usual bustling metropolises (or Wakandas) of superhero movies for the rural American Midwest.
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But climate change may not even be driving the most severe flooding in Asian metropolises, new research suggests.
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Metropolises such as New York, London, and Paris, meanwhile, didn't make the top 35 spots on Mercer's list.
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THE CLOSER And finally … No well-intentioned holiday decorations seem to go unpunished, including in some major metropolises.
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Proposals for public transit or global trade serve the coasts and major metropolises but generate fierce opposition elsewhere.
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Small town reporters, operating outside the major Indian metropolises of Delhi and Mumbai, are often most at risk.
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Cohen doesn't manufacture incident, choosing instead to capture the unending mundanity of life away from the major metropolises.
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Instead of rooting his story in metropolises such as London, he tells it from the "tattered ocean-gouged fringe".
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But it is not too late for the African and Asian cities that could be this century's great metropolises.
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Many metropolises are dysfunctional: public transport is in decline, housing is scarce, pipes are decaying and water is contaminated.
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And for many people, particularly those outside the cosmopolitan metropolises (where most Republican votes live), it never really recovered.
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The fastest growing metropolises, such as Nairobi, Kenya's capital, are expanding at rates of more than 4% per year.
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"We expect the metropolises in China and Asia will switch to pure electric mobility very fast," the CEO said.
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More than that, metropolises are good for the psyche and the soul; density fosters tolerance, diversity, creativity and progress.
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Weren't these massive concrete forms, these spectacular metropolises, foreign to the humble wood architecture that Japan had always cultivated?
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Really, New York is a movie star, with Paris as its only serious rival among the world's great metropolises.
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Hurley notes that today more than half of all Americans live in suburbs neighboring the country's 100 largest metropolises.
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Lowest since 7003The nation&aposs tech capital lost some of its share of venture deals to other emerging metropolises.
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Dizzying projections continually light it up to depict both Khan's palace and the chimerical metropolises conjured by the explorer.
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The risk is that one of America's great metropolises enters a death spiral, as Detroit had by the 1990s.
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It is now eyeing higher-spending customers in wealthier metropolises, where Alibaba dominates with its Taobao and Tmall sites.
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As in many metropolises worldwide, the art on London streets reflects a melting pot of local and international talents.
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Anslinger shared with President Trump a penchant for the pointed phrase "inner cities" as well as for vilifying America's metropolises.
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There was a palpable discomfort to navigating these metropolises and trying to figure out where I fit in their infrastructure.
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Blame the Victorian bourgeoisie, who built vast, hellish metropolises where they lived in increasing material comfort, wistfully recalling rural life.
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Early 20th century Paris was a breeding ground for ideas, art, and creativity, similar to the trendy metropolises of today.
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The works — which include videos, live simulations, performances and sculptures — range from satirical cultural commentaries to visualizations of future metropolises.
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Houston's warning to other metropolises growing in exciting and unwieldy ways is that validation from New York will never arrive.
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The smoke from the fires has cast a pall stretching across the country and reaching coastal metropolises like São Paulo.
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Because whether in cheek-by-jowl metropolises or intimate neighbourhoods or small towns that answer is both absurd and unwanted.
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Given the threat that bloating sea levels pose to so many metropolises, there may be a long list of takers.
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Modi's administration is vying to improve electrification among India's poor rural communities and major metropolises are also demanding more energy.
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It has also widened the gap between the metropolises those firms call home and less-populous small-towns and rural areas.
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These difficulties began in ancient Mesopotamia, the Indus river valley, and in the sprawling metropolises of the Mayan and Aztec empires.
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In interviews in the metropolises of Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru, more than 2100 drivers said discontent against Uber was growing.
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The fast-growing metropolises of Africa and Asia, especially, need to get it right, before they repeat the West's debilitating mistakes.
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They can also play a part in reducing outdoor air pollution in large metropolises by helping to reduce motor-vehicle use.
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Home prices in rich metropolises like Shenzhen and Shanghai are rising at rates reminiscent of dot-com stocks of another era.
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But where alternatives to car ownership are well-established in the US's major metropolises, bike shares are still finding their niche.
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Worried about pollution and traffic jams, China's wealthiest metropolises have begun limiting the number of new cars that may be registered.
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What in the World In the cramped metropolises of East Asia, brown toy poodles have become the latest must-have accessory.
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Swinney understands its proximity to the interstate that connects Charlotte, N.C., and Atlanta, two growing metropolises that incubate plentiful football talent.
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But they are not wrong to look upon cities as distant and alien metropolises that have benefited at rural America's expense.
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Jane Jacobs wrote her seminal "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" in support of highly diverse, collaborative, creative metropolises.
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The lessons learned in Delhi could also guide other growing metropolises facing air quality concerns like Karachi, Pakistan, and Lagos, Nigeria.
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And I should pay attention: Yinchuan is intended to serve as the blueprint "smart city" for scores of urban metropolises across China.
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In fact, Kotkin believes, the real estate market—both in metropolises like NYC and those abroad—tacitly endorses this sort of behavior.
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The crisis of unsolved shootings isn't confined to cash-strapped cities like Baltimore, but also hits some of America's most affluent metropolises.
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Unaccompanied young men, some traumatised by war, make up a large share of Germany's refugees, and they tend to gravitate to metropolises.
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In 45 of 52 big American metropolises with sizeable black populations, black-white segregation has fallen since 2000, according to Mr Frey.
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From the old spice warehouses of Singapore to the graffiti-covered derelict storehouses of Paris, industrial renovations are re-energizing metropolises worldwide.
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In all, 148 deaths were reported in Mexico City, one of North America's most populous metropolises with more than 21 million people.
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In all, 154 deaths were reported in Mexico City, one of North America's most populous metropolises with more than 21 million people.
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Hattie Leslie Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the American media became more accepting of female boxers, even in large metropolises.
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Special effects shots appear to include actual footage of cities and sets, rather than metropolises and laboratories constructed entirely within a computer.
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That area, roughly the size of Austria or Maine, is home to masses of people and capital in booming sea-facing metropolises.
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This spinoff series borrows that approach, focusing on six metropolises with landscapes and skyscrapers best seen from above, beginning with Las Vegas.
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The illness was diagnosed in an Italian who landed in Lagos, the country's largest city and one of the continent's biggest metropolises.
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Surging price growth in satellite cities near some of the country's sprawling metropolises have prompted authorities in those areas to impose purchases bans.
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This intricate system is why metropolises like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix have been able to survive in what's basically a desert.
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ClassPass broke down the most popular fitness genres by city, and strength training was the most popular amongst people in several major metropolises.
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In hindsight, I think I would have enjoyed a break from big metropolises and enjoyed sitting on the beach for a few days.
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While Elon Musk publicly dreams about moon bases and Mars metropolises, there's a fundamental problem in communicating with people that may move there.
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In this manner, the city built mini metropolises called "new towns" in the New Territories that have housed millions, many in public flats.
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African and Asian metropolises are bound to sprawl even if sensible pro-density reforms are passed, such as scrapping height restrictions on buildings.
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There are commonalities that unite most metropolises—crowds, a frenetic pace, and more diversity than tends to be found outside of urban centers.
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Among the structures uncovered were roads, built wide and raised high above the wetlands to connect fields to farmers and markets to metropolises.
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Carr previously argued that the quality of life in metropolises such as Sydney and Melbourne would deteriorate if migration continued at current levels.
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This tension between chaos and control is at the heart of Sam Anderson's "Boom Town", a portrait of one of America's least-celebrated metropolises.
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At the national level, rich metropolises should share more of the spoils with laggard cities; migration must be calibrated to benefit the host population.
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Yes, the startups listed are all based in either New York or the San Francisco Bay Area, two metropolises associated with scarce, pricey housing.
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The projected growth finds few parallels in other major American metropolises; most, like New York, trimmed their numbers after the financial crash of 2008.
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Residents of smaller cities located hours from metropolises like Wuhan or Beijing faced particularly long waits as some roads were blocked off to outsiders.
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"Mortal Engines" takes place after the "Sixty Minute War" has brought humanity to the brink, and the world's metropolises have escaped from their locations.
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Once-thriving marine metropolises, teeming with sting rays, turtles, little yellow fish and big-eyed predators, gradually wither away into a wasteland of muck.
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Those cities ranked especially highly due to commuters' general tendency to use public transport or walk to work in the three densely populated metropolises.
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Buildings are skyscraper-big, complexes look like metropolises, and the twisting production lines often make you feel as though you're trapped in a labyrinth.
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Any larger exclusion zone could effect the nearby metropolises of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, which between them are home to almost 20 million people.
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The finalists, from Boston and New York to Austin, Texas, largely fit the bill of being big metropolises that can attract highly educated tech talent.
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But Vienna, which tops the ranking for the first time, has a city-proper population of 1.9m, which is relatively small compared with other metropolises.
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The rigged system is set to relocate 174 cubic kilometres of water, ostensibly enough to quench the thirst of 100 metropolises the size of Mumbai.
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Like many other metropolises in developing countries, including New Delhi and Beijing, Tehran and other Iranian cities regularly disappear under a thick blanket of smog.
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Science fiction has conditioned us to imagine futuristic cities as chromed-out metropolises—gleaming monoliths twisting and towering over LED-lit autoways and radiant biospheres.
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While 22007 eagles may not sound like a lot, this species has been a surprising conservation success in a state suffering droughts and sprawling metropolises.
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The WUI runs through the fringes of suburbs and exurbs, and in the gaps they never quite fill, but it also creeps into our metropolises.
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With a rich literary tradition and strong educational institutions, Kolkata also has a more relaxed and peaceful feel than some of India's other modern metropolises.
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The sea is coming for the coastal metropolises of the world, and only those with thoughtful leaders who adapt thoughtfully—and adapt fast—will survive.
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But the city that launched a thousand killer apps still has plenty of catching up to do with metropolises not known as nearly so innovative.
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And because Ethiopia was never colonized, barring a brief Italian occupation between 20103 and 1941, Addis lacks the European infrastructure that underpins many African metropolises.
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The endeavor in question was a métiers d'art series, then loosely called City of Light, intended to render aerial images of world metropolises onto dials.
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On said logistics is exciting, but given dense populations, tall buildings and competing airspace needs, delivering purchases door-to-door in metropolises is difficult today.
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Prices for owner-occupied dwellings in Germany's seven largest metropolises rose by 9% year on year from July through September, the Federal Statistics Office said.
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And if he ends up, as is most likely, living in one of our great, culturally plural metropolises, his views on immigration may well evolve.
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Christian Delfino became fascinated with the world's biggest metropolises after growing up in Sarasota, Florida, a small city filled with many families and senior citizens.
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This is why in crowded metropolises, like New York City, it's so hard to hail a cab, even in Manhattan, where taxis appear to be everywhere.
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The rise of cities like Xinxiang has coincided with soaring living costs in big metropolises, particularly over the past 18 months as rents hit historic highs.
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Together, the four bands are on tour for seven weeks and will hit many of the continent's largest metropolises with a heavy fist of pop-punk.
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Experience Morocco's golden plains and mesmerizing urban metropolises from the air in Winds From Morocco, a new, drone captured short film by Portuguese filmmaker Bernardo Bacalhau.
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Young people of all kinds move to the central cities of the great coastal metropolises despite the rent squeezing, making do with roommates and cramped apartments.
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Neighboring Dubai and other emirates have surged ahead with their own imagined metropolises, spending hundreds of billions for new towers, museums, reclaimed land, and planned communities.
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Urban-planning experts say that for Nairobi and other African cities to become the modern metropolises their people dream of, four issues need to be tackled.
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The established artist scene can be cliquey and non-inclusive, even gossipy which can drive the new and emerging artists to art metropolises across the country.
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Whether for the holidays or year-round, the investment of window dressing extends to suburban mall stores, as well as downtown flagships in other U.S. metropolises.
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In his gritty images, all taken with an iPhone, Markov documents ordinary life in small towns far removed from the grandeur of the country's buzzing metropolises.
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Similar plate restrictions enacted in at least seven cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou helped shift rapid sales growth from major metropolises into lower-tier cities.
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But with massive metropolises boasting skyscrapers with thousands of windows each—let alone the half-dozen windows in each home—why hasn't this option taken hold?
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Tidemand has assembled a colony of miniature metropolises by shaping small pieces of wood, painting them white, and affixing them to the gallery walls with glue.
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One, a "Pano-8" four-page spread, featured six American metropolises on the cover of a special project that mapped nearly every building in the country.
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International real estate The coastal province of Valencia is cheaper and more manageable than Spain's major metropolises, making it an appealing alternative for many home buyers.
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In the past year, bike-sharing stations have popped up throughout major cities, helping fuel a resurgence of bike riding in the country's ever-expanding metropolises.
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The most ubiquitous images of Asia tend to be skyscrapers, bustling metropolises, hyper urban and cosmopolitan citizenry, despite the inherently conservative or spiritual nature of society.
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Yet when the world's great metropolises can feel like a succession of Instagram backdrops, these pictures of lived-in cities feel not just handsome but restorative.
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In the last two years black female mayors have been elected in such major metropolises as Atlanta, Charlotte, New Orleans and San Francisco (see map above).
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Hong Kong, one of the most crowded metropolises in the world, had been in virtual lockdown since the morning, with many shops and subway stations closed.
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On Wednesday, satellite cities near some of the country's sprawling metropolises imposed restrictions on property purchases, as Chinese home prices continued to rise at near record rates.
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Coastal metropolises like New York City regularly go through the grim ritual of fishing floating corpses out of the water in the spring as water temperatures rise.
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Fast-growing metropolises like Lagos and Manila, with populations of more than 15m, perform an amazing alchemy by turning poor rural migrants into better-educated, wealthier urbanites.
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GLOBALISATION has created a handful of metropolises that attract people, capital and ideas from all over the world, almost irrespective of how their national economy is doing.
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For less densely settled, sprawling metropolises like Los Angeles, there are companies like Skurt, a one-year-old start-up, which will deliver rental cars to customers.
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China's largest cities rival global metropolises in the variety of clothes, electronics and other goods that can arrive at the door often less than a day later.
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With the earliest photos dating back to 2002, Michael Wolf's documentation of China's dense metropolises—Hong Kong, in particular—is a project 15 years old and counting.
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Using GIS-based mapping technology, we recently assessed 52 U.S. cities, from large metropolises like New York City and Los Angeles to smaller cities such as Wichita.
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While Mr. Trump is certainly a New Yorker culturally, from his accent to his braggadocio, his political supporters tend to live far from diverse metropolises like Manhattan.
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Living in the Midwest, Stiles realizes that she's alienated from the larger transgender support networks and communities that thrive in metropolises, making her family more important than ever.
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The country's smog-choked, populous metropolises are a perfect testing ground for Israeli technologies aimed at "smart cities," which is a main area of focus for Liu's fund.
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According to the Urban Institute, a think-tank, Atlanta was the 41st most segregated of 100 large American metropolises in 2010 (down from 21st most segregated in 1990).
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From Hawkins, Indiana to the terrorized metropolises of the Godzilla franchise, Millie Bobby Brown is out here putting in work and saving the world for us yet again.
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When thinking of drone photography, aerial visages of major metropolises or rare footage of hard-to-access sites are some of the images that may come to mind.
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For the 20 percent of Americans who live economically secure lives and see shiny development in our metropolises, it may be difficult to reconcile, but it is true.
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Both are large metropolises equipped to host mega-events, and both have respectable bids that rely on mostly existing infrastructure and have relatively low levels of public expenditure.
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More attention is paid to the early modern era, which saw a Christian bourgeoisie arise in Baghdad, Damascus and other Arab metropolises between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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The disaster was a stunning reminder of the poor safety conditions on India's railways and the frequency of crowd-related accidents, even in rapidly modernizing metropolises like Mumbai.
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The Animal Crossing series isn't exactly known for its bustling metropolises, but the island in New Horizons will be quiet even by Animal Crossing standards — at least initially.
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The two metropolises have been neck and neck in the annual survey of 140 urban centers for years, with Melbourne clinching the title for the past seven editions.
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But since the recession, the vast majority of American population growth has been concentrated in a very small number of counties — ones that are home to booming metropolises.
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Although bombed by the USSR on several occasions, Helsinki was left relatively undisturbed during World War II in comparison to the devastation that ravaged many other European metropolises.
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Autonomous vehicles are supposed to be a panacea for mobility, but if they arrive to the status quo in our major metropolises, their promised benefits may never be realized.
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Iconic metropolises such as New York and London often grab headlines with their plans to cut air pollution, adopt electric transport, design green buildings or protect residents from floods.
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As major metropolises from New York City to San Francisco have pushed for home-sharing regulations ranging from licensing ordinances to effective bans, Goldwater has taken the opposing side.
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"We have proper fans in the metropolises who spend much time with us and order a lot," co-Chief Executive Rubin Ritter said in an interview published on Saturday.
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Over the past century, America's metropolises, from New York to Boston to San Francisco, have developed massive, complex, and centralized food systems in order to power their extraordinary growth.
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The biggest metropolises in the US Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago contain an amalgam of the old and the new, adding further complexity to the task of modernization.
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One reason poor people in major metropolises have longer life expectancies could be that they have higher proportions of immigrants, who tend to live longer than native-born Americans.
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CORPORATE WAKE-UP CALL Some Asian metropolises also came high on the risk list, highlighting the substantial economic exposure to climate change in major emerging markets, Verisk Maplecroft noted.
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But it is the flow of resources between cities that determines which cities rise to become major, empire-sustaining metropolises, and what areas subsist mostly to fuel that progress.
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He knows from cursed metropolises, having played for the Boston Red Sox, who didn't win a World Series title for 86 years and then won three in a decade.
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He angled it so that it appeared poised on a bridge spanning the gray water, taking people and goods perhaps to the far-off metropolises of Moscow or Leningrad.
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But Airbnb, like Uber and other tech giants, has come under fire for its impact in dense metropolises like New York City, its largest market in the United States.
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While many midsize and smaller cities have lost out to the superstars — large urban metropolises that gulp up scads of employers, workers and customers — the Lehigh Valley is booming.
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The researchers are part of the Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project (KRASP), an international collaboration that is working to reveal the ancient lost metropolises buried within Turkey's Konya Plain.
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In language, culture and atmosphere, the city more closely resembles Taiwan, which is within swimming distance of Xiamen, than the frenetic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai to the north.
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From L.A. and San Francisco to Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City, many of the country's biggest metropolises are making great strides towards understanding their power and water usage.
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San Francisco Bay Area companies raise so much venture capital relative to other places that a lot of little-known cities in the region outrank major metropolises in total funding.
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As a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford, Spin plans to "deploy quickly across hundreds of U.S. markets, including large metropolises and mid-sized cities," Poon wrote in a blog post.
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In simple strokes, Progressive Americans tend to live in major metropolises, to be highly educated, to work in knowledge industries like media, tech or academia, and to be less religious.
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In 2014, the two started the Appalachian Queer Film Festival as an effort to show that film festivals—something typically reserved for major metropolises—should be held in rural areas.
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Jakarta, one of the world's most populous metropolises, will choose a new governor on Wednesday in a fevered election marked by mass demonstrations, fake news and even the Islamic State.
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With a robust volunteer base, he's been able to muster a statewide ground game, in contrast to most Democrats who prefer to run up the score in California's urban metropolises.
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Combine that with spiraling income inequality, the erosion of tenants' rights, and stagnant real wages, and it makes paying for a roof over your head almost impossible in many metropolises.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Three Asian metropolises - Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore - are the world's leading environmentally-friendly commuting cities, a report to be released by data insight company Kantar on Thursday says.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Three Asian metropolises - Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore - are the world's leading environmentally-friendly commuting cities, a report to be released by data insight company Kantar on Thursday says.
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Many cities lay claim to being important financial centers, but two metropolises are usually seen vying for the title of Asia's most important financial hub: It's Hong Kong versus Singapore.
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New York City found it after decades of pollution rivaling that of the Indian city and other global metropolises through staunch local controls and the Clean Air Act of 1970.
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Others haven't; old habits die hard, and besides, it's logical to assume that celebrating metropolis-style diversity might not play as well in states like Virginia that don't have metropolises.
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To put that number in perspective, there are more than 50 cities in California with more people than Manchester, New Hampshire — including such metropolises as Roseville, Thousand Oaks, and Visalia.
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Cheaper living costs and less demanding work schedules — relative to peers living in major metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai — also give this group of consumers more time and disposable income.
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"Everybody else" includes not just the restless immigrant communities living on the outskirts of the "globalized metropolises," but residents of the hollowed-out second-tier cities and impoverished rural communities.
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It boggles the mind that it took Donald Trump to make those of us in capital-rich metropolises sit up and pay attention to the nation's interior, the places in between.
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President-Elect Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to cut federal funding to these cities, even as defiant liberal metropolises like Seattle, New York, and Chicago have vowed to stay the course.
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Perhaps one of the Midwestern metropolises that are already seeing a resurgence would enjoy an even bigger jolt from Amazon bestowing 50,000 new jobs on a region that could use it.
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Even if the real L.A. seems unlikely to acquire quite as many flying cars and giant neon billboards by 2019, Blade Runner still sets the standard for seedy science fiction metropolises.
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According to UN Women, nine of every 10 women in Mexico City, one of the world's most populous metropolises, have been subjected to some type of sexual abuse riding the subway.
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Not only did the number of Chinese cities included in the report jump significantly over the past decade, but these East Asian metropolises also outperformed nearly every other region we covered.
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If it comes into play in our current era of warming, it could lead to sea levels that are 3 feet higher by 2100, wiping out coastal metropolises around the world.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Mayors of cities from Lisbon to New Orleans called on Thursday for urgent global action to tackle climate change that could see hundreds of coastal metropolises swamped with water.
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People ran into the streets in Mexico City, one of the world's largest metropolises and home to more than 1203 million, and alarms sounded after the quake struck just before midnight.
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He would recall his younger brother's new, prosperous life in San Francisco, which invariably made him think of images he had seen of sprawling metropolises and the New York City skyline.
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Levin found that of the country's five largest metropolises—Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Houston—only Houston failed to see hate crime incidents increase by a double-digit percentage.
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For those who could not otherwise afford to own a car in China's pricey metropolises, driving around is also a status symbol, even if they are paying off car loans every month.
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For all the talk of American cities undergoing a renaissance, economic success has been concentrated in a few standout metropolises while the rest either struggle to keep up or fall further behind.
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For the people who live in towns and cities far from the top-tier of globally-connected metropolises, these spaces signal membership of the world beyond the narrow boundaries of their homes.
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Across China's metropolises, the appetite of a burgeoning middle class for expensively fresh U.S. cherries has become a symbolic casualty of China's festering, tit-for-tat trade battle with the United States.
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His comments are in line with the government's willingness to tolerate urging prices in the country's biggest metropolises as Beijing takes steps to flush out a huge inventory overhang in smaller cities.
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Congonhas in Sao Paulo and Santos Dumont in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's two most profitable airports in the country's two biggest metropolises, will be part of that latter group, de Freitas said.
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This epidemic spans across cities large and small, in red states and blue states, in rural communities and established metropolises; it's also happening in Washington, D.C., but incredibly doesn't involve Donald Trump.
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Congonhas in Sao Paulo and Santos Dumont in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's two most profitable airports in the country's two biggest metropolises, will be part of that latter group, de Freitas said.
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Even as modern skyscrapers bring space to densely packed metropolises like New York, they darken their neighbors' doorsteps and raise quality-of-life questions about whether people have a right to sunlight.
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Then, as now, wealth and poverty were more entwined than in many metropolises, the neat grids of red and yellow on the maps disrupted by thickets of blue and slugs of black.
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Metropolises where rents and labor costs are highest — places where chains have to at least pretend they care about their workers — will often charge consumers higher prices to get the same profit margins.
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The Bakken still only accounts for about 21 percent of all US oil, but production is so concentrated around a small area that it has turned certain towns into traffic-clogged mini-metropolises.
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It's easy to get caught up in the hunt, the endless dusty fingered pursuit of rare or otherwise unturned treasured buried in the bins of record stores in hidden corners of mega metropolises.
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Last year, Alex Ingram spent a good deal of time in St. David's, photographing the people who have chosen to live out their days outside of great metropolises for the series David's House.
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The artist and designer behind Half-Life 220's City 17 and Dishonored's Dunwall, Antonov has created disturbing, memorable, and unique worlds that simultaneously conjure images of cyberpunk metropolises and grim London alleyways.
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Sand from the Mekong, used for land reclamation and as an ingredient for concrete and asphalt, has helped build Asian metropolises, from Singapore to Ho Chi Minh City, further eroding the river's ecosystem.
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The Pulitzer's pitch-perfect galleries are a regional treasure, providing a strong argument for major exhibition spaces outside of crowded metropolises where space is expensive and galleries are often overhung as a result.
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"Deutsche Telekom is starting in the metropolises and will broaden out its network into less densely populated areas," Deutsche Telekom said in a statement released before a briefing on the company's 5G strategy.
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In press materials for the exhibition, Hou Hanru highlights how this capital city can be seen as "a major laboratory of urban and social mutation," which might help us understand many other metropolises worldwide.
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Barring that, Opportunity Zone advocates point out examples of the tax break prompting local banks, companies and high-net-worth individuals to invest not in far-off metropolises, but rather in their own backyards.
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Rueda's plan for Barcelona, now adopted by the city, is based on design principles and metrics he shares in his "charter for the ecosystemic planning of cities and metropolises" and his book Ecological Urbanism.
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In fact, these communities might benefit the most from the competition as they draw up plans for their own mini-Burning Mans, new temporary metropolises which might soon be dispersed all over the world.
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The band alternates between a more traditional grind sound and at times delves into death/grind territory, with lyrics painting a bleak picture of urban life in any one of Taiwan's sprawling major metropolises.
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But this thriving industrial park is just one sign of the many metropolises and smaller cities across the nation that have not only regained their footing since the recession, but are on the upswing.
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There were plenty of players—including in some cases the police—who all had a role in funneling the shipments from New York into specific neighborhoods around the city and into other major metropolises.
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Lots of the truisms of the modern suburb may have originally described Greenwich, Stamford, and the like, which I-95 put within easy reach of New York City and the metropolises of New England.
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One of the most over-used slogans of recent years has been "smart cities," the vision of connected, Jetsons-like future of streamlined metropolises where technology smoothly manages energy use, traffic, policing and more.
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The major metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are traditionally seen as Tier 183 cities, with the following tiers made up of smaller, fast-growing cities that still boast of millions of inhabitants.
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In major Western European metropolises like London and Paris, the piercing was having a definite moment, and for a variety of reasons—the main being that it walked the line between fashionable and kinky.
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"Our brains are not well designed for living in the dense and overcrowded metropolises of our world," said Mazda Adli, author of Stress and the City, during a TEDxBerlin Talk about urban mental health.
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During an interview in New York, Mr. Chazelle spoke about being moved by the tradition of 1920s city symphony films like "Manhatta" or "Man With a Movie Camera" that paid tribute to other metropolises.
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In the past few years, the country's municipal authorities have cracked down on the unregulated street markets in the busy metropolises of Shanghai and Beijing, which has purged countless carts from their usual corners.
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That will allow investments with a lower expected pre-tax return — in the downtowns of depressed second-tier cities like Louisville or Cleveland, for example — to be more competitive with those in booming metropolises.
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Yet that its appeal goes far beyond China's richest metropolises is one of the reasons it is thrilling investors, says Eric Zhang of General Atlantic, an American private-equity firm with a stake in Toutiao.
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The province lies between Beijing and Shanghai, so it is easy for the province's young women—said to be unusually tall and beautiful—to migrate to the great metropolises in search of work and boyfriends.
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Cape Town, South Africa (CNN)From rural settlements in the hinterlands of the African Savannah, to plush hotels in bustling metropolises, terror groups in sub-Saharan Africa are pursuing their fundamentalist agenda with deadly ambitions.
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It took an earthshaking election for the pundits to catch on that cities from Scranton to Cleveland and Johnstown to Gary have been lagging behind coastal metropolises in jobs creation, income growth and housing value.
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The long-held belief is that trends tend to start on the coast, bubbling up in influential epicenters like New York City or Los Angeles before making their way to major metropolises across the nation.
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And as was the case with the owner of the rice mill, many patients had traveled more than 400 miles to see the doctor — not only from tiny rural villages but also metropolises like Mumbai.
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The city's name might change, the circumstances may be different, but this kind of scenario could play out in a large number of smaller American cities outside the metropolises where Uber's seen its biggest successes.
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Moving to Geneva for the wine prices is probably a bit extreme, but if you indulge regularly, your hobby will cost you a lot less in the Swiss city than in the other nine metropolises.
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For with that land — the urban villages of East Jerusalem, the sprawling hills and metropolises of the West Bank, the concrete density of the Gaza Strip — came people: Palestinians now numbering more than 278 million.
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Mark Watts, executive director of C40 Cities, which promotes climate action in metropolises, said his group was funding advisors for member African cities, to help them put together plans in line with the 1.5C warming goal.
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As the associate director for the SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT, Assaf Biderman realized the best way to get around a city is by bike, but most can't handle the size and terrain of modern metropolises.
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If brands see brick and mortar as marketing expenses that drive affinity through foot traffic and exposure through social media, it might not make sense to set up shops in any but the most dense metropolises.
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A 1997 government white paper identified the main culprits (vehicle exhaust and industrial emissions) and outlined urgent actions to avert the smog-choked fate of Mexico City, among the world's most polluted metropolises at the time.
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Many of China's more remote areas are catching up to rich metropolises and connecting to the broader economy in ways they had not before, with potential long-term benefits for the Chinese economy and the world.
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As the title of "Ghostbox Cowboy" indicates, the unpopulated metropolises built by China's government have a metaphoric affinity with this unusual movie — a scary, dryly funny dissection of entrepreneurial absurdism bleeding into existential and metaphysical despair.
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The 6,000 cities included in Facebook's expansion do not include major metropolises including Los Angeles and New York, according to the AP, due to the challenges of aggregating relevant hyperlocal content for users in larger cities.
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Mr. Frankl said inefficiency in Gansu was "astronomically high" and underscored the need for China to build more ultrahigh-voltage transmission lines to carry electricity long distances, and to position new turbines closer to major metropolises.
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More interesting and important are the longer-term trends, which are pretty clear: Over the past several decades, top-end wealth in America has increasingly concentrated in a handful of metropolises, leaving the in-between parts behind.
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While you might think of smog-shrouded cities as the biggest offenders when it comes to air pollution, in the United States the most dangerous air to breathe is actually found far outside of its biggest metropolises.
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In a fierce war to boost market share, Chinese developers are planning a larger budget than last year to expand their land reserves and enter smaller cities as supply in bigger metropolises gets more difficult to find.
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With a special interest in the darker side of sprawling metropolises, Ryan Monahan's collection of grungy city tableaus, complete with corner bodegas, adult video stores, abandoned store fronts, capture the spirit of the inner city in minature.
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Their metamorphosis from drab factory towns into dizzying metropolises in just a few decades has been propelled by a crude mixture of political and economic objectives, resulting in a wrecked environment, gaping inequality and broken family ties.
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Today, residents of Detroit and other fading metropolises want their old cities back, but generations of people must create the fresh ideas and industries that spawn great cities, and they can't do it by fiat from Washington.
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China may hope to replace its flailing manufacturing-based economy with one focused more on technology services to bring jobs and business to the nation's many struggling metropolises, but this is not the way to do it.
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However, "MARS" successfully drives home a bleak concept that arguably gets lost in the excitement over the next phase of space exploration: It won't be easy, and space isn't filled with glittering metropolises, massive spaceships and friendly aliens.
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Los Angeles is taking advantage of tech-enabled entertainment, Seattle on Saas opportunities (thanks to Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, Zillow, etc.), while the metropolises of the Midwest are ripe for bringing tech tools to bear on food tech opportunities.
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Lightly interactive, viewers can move around to examine the world from any angle, and in an inspired touch reminiscent of dollhouses and Lego metropolises, lean in to make walls vanish, revealing bonus scenes inside tiny boats and houses.
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In the outback — a landscape central to Australian lore, far removed in distance and spirit from the coastal metropolises — rivers and lakes are disappearing, amplifying fears that wide swaths of rural territory may eventually have to be abandoned.
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Renewables like wind and solar farms figure prominently in the decarbonization of our energy, but we'll likely need another reliable source of clean energy to power our growing metropolises — something we can flip a switch and turn on.
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With miles and miles of tract homes, strip malls, fancy condos, traffic jams, and expensive restaurants, it's taken on more of the character of the state's true metropolises—Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston—than locals like to admit.
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Like most big-city liberals, I, personally, would not want to live in an all-native, all-white area without a wide range of restaurants, innovative small businesses, diverse cultural attractions, and the other upsides of cosmopolitan metropolises.
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A Burglar's Guide takes a look at our everyday urban environments through the eyes of the criminals aiming to hack them, illuminating the spatially-specific tactics used to break in, escape, and stay hidden in today's surveillance-heavy metropolises.
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In 503 David Albouy and Minchul Shin of the University of Illinois and Gabriel Ehrlich of the University of Michigan, estimated that as of 2006, just five metropolises accounted for nearly half of all urban land value in America.
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These cities have bought into the idea that other transit upstarts, urbanist wonks, and billion-dollar companies have: scooters are the next big thing, the killer app that will deliver eco-friendly relief to the globe's traffic-choked metropolises.
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In an increasingly interconnected world, it takes a single virus, hitching a ride on an infected human riding a jetliner, less than 24 hours to reach most of the world's metropolises, where it can then spread out of control.
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Metropolises on the up: 7 design-savvy cities to watch in 2018 Rise of the megacity Delhi is expected to overtake Tokyo as the world's largest metropolitan area around 2028, as Japan's population declines and India's continues to grow.
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New home prices in 2017 still crept up 5.3 percent from a year earlier, with sales by floor area picking up 7.7 percent, largely driven by a buying frenzy that has spread from the big metropolises to less-regulated smaller centers.
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Its half-shiny, half-grimy mega-city setting may have resembled the noirish metropolises of "Blade Runner" (1982) and "Brazil" (1985), and its cyborg heroine could have come from the same production line as "Robocop" (1987) and "The Terminator" (1984).
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Real estate in tier-3 and tier-4 cities, ranked below the major metropolises and the provincial capitals, is where the growth is now, analysts say, but the frenzied construction means the stock of unsold homes has remained stubbornly high.
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Kardel, for his part, notes that most of the biggest dark-sky preservation efforts are still taking place within the Colorado Plateau — campaigners haven't yet focused on how to deal with light from surrounding metropolises like Phoenix and Las Vegas.
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DEEP-ROOTED CORRUPTION Variously described as a left-winger, a populist and a nationalist, Lopez Obrador quit the PRI in the 1980s and his subsequent political career included a stint as mayor of Mexico City, one of the world's largest metropolises.
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Water issues once seemed a distant concern to Americans, but today we are grappling with myriad crises — from chronic droughts in the West to fast-growing metropolises in the Sunbelt unable to meet surging demand and clean drinking water challenges.
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Skyrocketing rents in major metropolises across the country have forced people to abandon places like San Francisco and New York City in favor of smaller nearby cities like Oakland and Hoboken, N.J. But now even those places are becoming unaffordable.
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Cities in North Carolina and Georgia both have significantly less of a backlog in their immigration courts system than metropolises like New York or Miami, and are filled with judges who aren't as sympathetic to immigrants as some courts are in larger states.
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But like the leaders of most metropolises, her administration failed to anticipate the rise of micromobility—not just e-scooters but also electric bicycles, electric skates, hoverboards, and the like—and the many new startups that are banking on their shared use.
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Over the years, the buildings appeared to be cinched even closer by bundles of electrical wires strung from rooftop to rooftop, pulling small urban quarters together into a densely packed tenement village in the heart of Shenzhen, one of southeastern China's surging metropolises.
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That flight haunts the United States perhaps most in its urban areas — especially neighborhoods that once housed the nation's working class — and helps explain why many African-Americans in particular today live in poverty in metropolises like Baltimore, Detroit, Newark and St. Louis.
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That raises the risk that the rebound is too narrow to be sustainable — it is concentrated in China's biggest and richest cities — and that it will not outgrow the huge oversupply of unsold homes that haunts China's smaller and farther-flung metropolises.
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The delta region stretches from the Chinese metropolises of Guangzhou, Dongguan and Foshan in the north, to Hong Kong and Macau in the south, where three rivers and a host of small tributaries meet and combine as they pour into the sea.
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For what is driving the decline is the flip side of the forces powering the success of large metropolises: the accumulation of human talent that is spurring investment and driving innovations that are fueling the prosperity of the nation as a whole.
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In addition, big metropolises such as New York City, or Beijing, upgrading the whole city will be a challenge because of the vast number of people who live there, and not all of them are willing to make a change for the better.
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It jostles your seat, which is larger and more like something you might buy at Brookstone than your typical movie theater seat, and sends you bumping along as Vin Diesel and his Furious co-stars race through the streets of various global metropolises.
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He said he was inspired to do the show because he was living in Los Angeles at the time and gay men in all major national metropolises were transfixed by the story, and terrified Mr. Cunanan would be arriving in their city next.
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Living in the city — especially in metropolises where homelessness is an unsolved, unending crisis — means that at some point in your day, or week, a person seeming (or claiming) to be homeless, or suffering with a disability, will ask you for help.
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Thanks to rising water temperature and its negative effects on the algae that keeps coral alive, reefs that were once buzzing metropolises of kaleidoscopic sea life are currently the ocean's cemeteries, stretching out for miles and miles like a pale white skeleton.
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Right now, while the companies running testbeds in American metropolises are forced to pause, city leaders have a chance to shape the future of autonomous vehicles and ensure they are part of holistic efforts to improve equity and quality of life for all residents.
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" Another bouncer, 26-year-old Jyoti Kumari, points out that the situation may be different ouside of urban metropolises like Delhi: "Whilst my parents were supportive, and all my friends in the city are female bouncers, [I still experience] some resistance at the village level.
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BENGBU, China (Reuters) - Luxury lakeside homes and high-rise condominiums are coming up fast in China's sleepy inland town of Bengbu, a clear sign that a home-buying frenzy sweeping across the country's major metropolises and provincial capitals has reached even its smaller cities.
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The livability crisis that's currently afflicting Seattle and San Francisco is evidence of how cities need to be careful what they wish for when it comes to the explosive growth of technology companies (and the attendant wealth that comes with it) in their metropolises.
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And in 1994, when he unseated David Dinkins -- considered by many to be one of New York's most hapless and ineffective mayors -- he immediately launched a crusade to clean up the crime-ridden city, transforming it into one of the world's safest large metropolises.
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"She was plugged into a vast global commercial network stretching from the mines of Afghanistan to her community in medieval Germany through the trading metropolises of Islamic Egypt and Byzantine Constantinople," Michael McCormick, study co-author and historian at Harvard University, said in a statement.
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Related: Watch A Cerebral Animation Illustrated With Ink, Coffee, And Whiteout We Spoke To The Illustrator Behind These Incredible Sci-Fi Architecture Mashups An Artist Visualizes The Terrifying, Dystopian Metropolises Of Tomorrow Underpaid Chinese Artists Commissioned To Recreate Stock Photos Of "Artists" As Paintings
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The problem for all the characters is essentially the same: None of them have any basis for doing what they're doing, which eventually turns out to be battling each other in a clunky, computer-generated finale that casually destroys a handful of major global metropolises.
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"We are all used to the fact that we have flourishing industrial metropolises around the central manufacturing plants of German carmakers and their suppliers, places where people like to live and work, but that's not guaranteed for eternity," Diess told an auto supplier conference in Wolfsburg.
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The houses along the tree-lined blocks of Josina Avenue in Palo Alto, with their big back yards, swimming pools and driveways are about as far removed from the snarls of traffic, sputtering diesel engines, and smoggy air of South America's major metropolises as one can get.
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Its strange take on the storefronts, small towns, and metropolises of America is unlike anything else I ever saw, and the ability to plot a course through that world and explore it with a friend was more meaningful than anything else the game ever gave me.
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In the years ahead, before cancer struck her down on March 23, 1981, at the age of 40, Tinsley would become known as the world's leading expert on the aging and evolution of galaxies — the gigantic glowing stellar metropolises that are the true citizens of the cosmos.
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It might seem like just a bureaucratic complication, but this episode could point progressives toward a persuasive economic message, one that reflects the economic realities of the middle class and the striving of people in struggling small communities as well as those in tech-driven metropolises.
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Columbus, with an economy anchored by banking, insurance and higher education, fits the profile of a Sun Belt city plopped down in the Midwest: It is one of the 15 fastest growing metropolises in the country, and the only one on the list in the Midwest.
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Of course, inhabitants of other great metropolises experience similar sensations, but the feeling is more intense in New York, in part because the city is both younger than and smaller than many other places that have at one point or another determined the global cultural agenda.
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Since I haven't played a proper entry in the series in many, many years, I couldn't tell you how these compare to their original iterations, only that I enjoyed the living hell out of going very fast down neon tubes, though vast aquariums, over and under overwrought, futuristic metropolises.
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When: Opens Saturday, July 23, 6–9pm Where: Charlie James Gallery (969 Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles) Anyone who's spent any amount of time in Los Angeles knows that there is not one LA, but multiple metropolises, many of which are overshadowed by the behemoth of Hollywood.
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Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.
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Throughout the day reports of rallies, most of them unsanctioned, flowed in from dozens of cities, including metropolises like Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, industrial centres like Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Tagil, and even Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, a North Caucasian region where Mr Putin regularly receives more than 90% of the vote.
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In a city which has stunning sights — from the natural wonders of Barcelona's beaches and parks, to the incredible architecture by Antoni Gaudi — it's hard for any employee not to be mesmerized by the views of one of Spain's most popular metropolises — of which can be seen from the office's terrace.
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And while metropolises offer big-city allures, from versatile dining options to beautiful architecture to world-class art and cultural scenes, there are many of places across America brimming with small-town charm and underrated draws, from lesser-visited outdoor attractions to storied historical landmarks to budget-friendly lodging choices.
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The show is confusingly lacking when it comes to giving people of color meaningful roles, despite the fact it takes place in bustling metropolises like New York City and Washington D.C. Yet, we do get one purposeful conversation between Grace and her employee Tony (Anthony Ramos), who is played by a Puerto Rican actor.
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Mr Qiu's map makes you think of Grayson Perry's maps, Xu Tan's kitschy interiors of Tracey Emin, Huang Yong Ping's broken aeroplane of the Algerian Adel Abdessemed and Cao Fei's sizzling coloured metropolises of the work of Bodys Isek Kingelez from Congo, which was shown to such great effect in Paris earlier this year.
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Educated whites in the prosperous metropolises of the New South sublimated the frenetic, violent anxieties that once marked race relations in their region into more palatable policy concerns about "stable housing values" and "quality local education," backfooting liberals and transforming conservatives into mainstream champions of a set of positions with enormous appeal to the white American middle class.
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But when I adjust the telescope a bit and compare then with now -- 15 years later -- things feel very different: The Communist Party is no longer in power; Kolkata has continued to fall behind the pecking order in India, overtaken by previously lesser metropolises; and there's been a considerable brain drain, with the best and brightest students packing their bags for other cities.
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He's not got enough room for his briefcase, you see, and his briefcase needs room because, being his briefcase, it is special, but right now he's having to hold it up in his arms like a baby (the pose, he thinks, is emasculating, as if hunter-gatherers ever crammed their bodies onto metal trains to take them to metropolises where single-serving sandwiches are readily available).
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In all, it represents a shocking combination of greed and short-sightedness, compounded by an apparent urge to appeal to the worst impulses of the Trump base -- people he and Republicans seem to assume are motivated by an urge to stick it to Prius-driving egghead liberals, even if doing so means their grandchildren might suffer or perish in a world of flooded metropolises, unbreathable air and expansive, unlivable deserts.
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