The scheme thus aims to match a hard-headed acknowledgement of the problems of contemporary city life with a softer vision of a better future very New Labour.
"Times Square was the capital of exhibitionism, " Sharon Zukin, a professor at Brooklyn College and author of "Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, " a book chronicling the city's gentrification in recent decades.
After visiting The Lowry himself, Tunick was intrigued the paintings of LS Lowry which, he said, illustrated the vulnerability of life in a rough city landscape.
The story deftly navigates the intricacies of creative life in a repressive society, and Ghobadi brilliantly captures the vibrant city with the skill of a great neorealist.
Between the clogged arteries of the main thoroughfares, Mexico City is a mosaic of neighbourhoods where the pace of life often seems rooted in another era when the air was clear.
In Pyongyang, the rhythms of life hark back to a previous century: the city goes dark at night, and the most common way of getting around town is by foot.
But the vision of a renaissance for city life spelled out by Lord Rogers has, at least, concentrated the minds of politicians.
Since 1929, when it opened, the museum has become a fixture in the cultural life of the city, not to say the world.
"The scheme will enable the regeneration of this great historic landmark, so that it can once again play a prominent role in the life of the city, " he said.
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What appears to be a mundane depiction of Berliners going about their everyday lives reveals, on closer inspection, the repression, fear and looming cruelty of life in a city split into the communist East and the capitalist, democratic West.
River dwelling tribes that number less than a thousand strong worry that when the diversion is through, the river will no longer be navigable and may see some Xingu tributaries dry out for good, impacting their way of life and a key route to the city of Altamira nearby.
Sir David says the standard of life that can be bought in the city for a low salary is one reason why he and other colleagues have not taken much better-paid jobs in America.
Rockets were fired at the town throughout the day, a day after heavy fighting that claimed the life of the city's police chief, the sources said.
Manchester councillor Pat Karney said the city was "full of underused pockets of space" and the play area was an "example of how we can be creative with our public spaces and bring life to a quiet corner of the city centre".
The starting point was a pioneering study in the mid-1970s on the ecology and metabolism of the city of Hong Kong, combined with a survey of the quality of life of individuals and human adaptation.
The sadness came because she occupied a special place in the life and consciousness of New York City.
Bloomberg hailed the population rise as a measure of the city's quality of life, crediting factors he often cites as key accomplishments on his 11-year watch: crime rates at historic lows, rising life expectancy and a public school system that has seen an aggressive, if not uncontroversial, overhaul.
Then when we needed someone to push the cause of inner city children struggling to avoid a life of crime, or to bring the benefits of high technology to ordinary Americans, or to clean the environment in a way that created new jobs, or to give small businesses a better chance to make it, John Kerry said: Send me.
This may explain the element of surprise so rampant when Hurricane Katrina broke through the levees in New Orleans in 2005, flooding the city and causing a terrible loss of life and property.
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Some of the growth has come from the domestic migration of young professionals with a taste for city life.
But they say the cars are a much beloved and valuable part of the city's life and character.
Jon lived the first two years of his life in a Guatemala City orphanage, before moving to New Jersey with his adopted family.
Since arriving in Prague over a year ago I have done my best to become a member of the authentic life of the city, including the small but dynamic Jewish community.
Steve Jobs, in the last months of his life, took time to attend a city council meeting in Apple Inc.
Sure, the drive can be a pain sometimes, but I feel like we get the small town life with many of the city benefits.
It "reverses a trend that has been a fact of life for decades and that a number of pundits have talked about when they predicted the end of New York City, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday.
Harlem, of course, is one of the city's most history-laden neighborhoods, the center of African-American life in a neighborhood filled with churches, jazz clubs and the famous Apollo Theater.
To earlier generations, escaping the claustrophobic all-knowingness of a village for the relative anonymity of the city was one of the more liberating aspects of modern life.
As well as being a parish church, St Peter's serves as a church for important civic events in the life of the city.
"Hong Kong has a stair culture which is typified by a certain slowness and rhythm that has defined a way of life and attitude in the areas of the city with steep topography, " said Melissa Cate Christ, an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong.
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