But just 20 kilometers from the city center there is a different kind of life.
The park is 2km from the city center and it's open seven days a week.
Federal Realty is developing a huge commercial complex with adjoining apartment buildings called Assembly Square near downtown Boston (3.5 miles from the city center).
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Still, the city of Tokyo has already banned diesel cars (effective October 2003), and there is talk of eventually banning all hydrocarbon-based cars from the city center.
They noted how other capitals such as Seoul, with its long history of violent student protests located their new universities far from the city center.
But if you want to browse, head out to Queen Street in Woollahra, an affluent section in the southeast suburbs about a ten-minute cab ride from the city center.
Whenever I take a taxi home from the city center to Etiler, I pass along the otobahn through an Alphaville landscape of Trump Towers, kiddy-neon malls and Carrefour Express supermarkets.
These satellite cities were expected to absorb half the growth between 1998 and 2017, but their distance from the city center, as well their lack of services and opportunities, make them unattractive and still unaffordable for the majority of Egyptians.
The GSM Association, which organizes the shows, expects more than 70, 000 attendees, and the demand for exhibit space has forced a move from the historic conference center at the foot of the Montjuic hill to a larger, more modern venue further from the city center.
The Catalan capital is still a city best enjoyed from outside the city center, thanks to some of its whimsical architecture, courtesy of Antoni Gaudi .
The single biggest advantage of train travel is that it goes from city center to city center, without the need to arrive over an hour early, which in many cases can save you 2-3 hours of travel time (and taxi expenses) before you even count the travel itself.
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Food retailer Safeway similarly moved from Oakland city center to the same city as Chevron.
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The Moscow city government lowered the maximum allowable height of buildings in the historic center of the city from 100 to 75 meters, although buildings which are already under construction will not be lowered.
From snake charmers to the labyrinthine old-city center, from merchants hawking colorfully woven carpets to the ornate mosques, Marrakech embodies many aspects of Morocco's fascinating heritage.
But for areas farther from the city's center, they are talking about clearing the way for more heights well above the 130-foot cap, though specifics haven't been publicly discussed.
In Nairobi's slums, which are often divided along tribal lines, rival groups have been fighting each other with machetes and sticks as police use tear gas and bullets to keep them from pouring into the city center.
He also had a police scanner and told CBS the inspiration for Twitter came from listening to the short bursts of chatter from the city's emergency dispatch center.
The goal of the Americans was to provoke and humiliate Audin, and ultimately drive him from his castle in the city center.
The research was conducted by Melissa Ditmore, from the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center based in New York City and Dan Allman, from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
In the 1940s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia saved the building that would become New York City Center from the wrecking ball.
That was the news over the weekend from the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Boston, where a team of researchers from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center presented evidence demonstrating the effects of aspirin against two types of breast cancer.
Lipitor, of course, is prescribed to prevent heart attacks, and Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) placed the billboards on the highway from the New Orleans airport to the city's convention center more than three months ago to greet doctors attending a cardiology meeting.
According to police estimates, more than 40, 000 demonstrators converged on the Greek Parliament in the center of the city from three separate marches, while protest organizers said there were more than 50, 000 taking part.
Many displaced Palestinians have been living for decades in Yarmouk, a nearly square-mile district inside Damascus about five miles from the center of the city.
Pittsburgh "has transformed itself from the city of steel to a center for high-tech innovation -- including green technology, education and training, and research and development, " the president said.
But for a fleeting glimpse of the city center from on high, the camera rarely ventures beyond the concrete corridors and prison-like courtyards of housing estates -- far from the glamour of the place where, according to tourism promotions, Wonders Never Cease.
Iraqi forces defending the city center from the east bank of the Tigris fired back at the Americans with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades, but as night fell on Monday, some American troops remained in the bombed palaces in the compound, the Iraqi equivalent of the White House, which once symbolized President Saddam Hussein's absolute power.
Caseloads at the Johnson County Mental Health Center near Kansas City rose from the recommended 15 per caseworker to more than 30 in 2010.
Data from the National Drought Mitigation Center shows rainfall in the southern Illinois city of Carbondale totaled 7.5 inches from the start of March to last week, down from 30.3 inches last year and 16.8 inches in a normal year.
All are self-made, grew up in the outer boroughs of New York City, and can now look back on middle age. (Ray Lamontagne, the chairman of the board of City Center, comes from New Hampshire, but otherwise fits the profile.) During one recent lunch together, the old farts had a contest of sorts to determine who grew up in the most modest circumstances.
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