Like its counterparts nationwide, the city began building a vision deemed reasonable in the boom years, and had to scale back those dreams when the recession hit.
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.
The document also opens a window on a vision of the city a place with "a can-do attitude, competitive spirit and aggressive nature" that sounds not unlike Weiner himself.
All the same, the juxtaposition of brutality and improbable chivalry, in a dystopia built on the foundations of "Blade Runner, " "Brazil" and even "Naked City, " is a vision that's hard to dismiss.
So you're focused on addressing the pressing problems we face today, but you've got a vision for your city.
The document also offers a vision of the city a place with "a can-do attitude, competitive spirit and aggressive nature" that sounds not unlike Weiner himself.
William Mitchell, a professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his team of engineers and architects have a vision of stackable, two-seater cars forming a city-wide car share scheme.
The post-1945 planners were not much more successful in imposing a new vision on the city.
Laurie is one of more than 50 educators from New Orleans and around the country who've worked to develop a new vision for the City's schools.
HBO's hit series Boardwalk Empire, entering its second season this September, has reincarnated a nostalgic vision of Atlantic City, replete with gangsters, molls, speakeasies and poker joints.
After the canvas was cleaned, it became clear that Ensor's nightmarish vision of a boisterous city boulevard teeming with banners, placards and a massed, modern rabble was shaped not only by the artist's deep-seated pessimism but by his critical view of contemporary art, captured here in dazzling displays of virtuoso painting that are as variable, original and richly parodic as the painter's darkly comic brigade.
But the vision of a renaissance for city life spelled out by Lord Rogers has, at least, concentrated the minds of politicians.
Nagin said the city needed a, quote, "bold vision" to demonstrate to the rest of the nation and the world that New Orleans was on the rebound.
When the vision and determination of a city bent on regeneration of its spirit and resources met the ambitions of a director with a growing collection and dreams of expansion, a bargain was struck with international reverberations.
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This vision of a self-supporting city of the arts is never likely to be realised.
The writer and director, George Nolfi, and the cinematographer, John Toll, have produced a uniform vision of New York, a place of dark skies and frequent downpours, a city whose towers stick up like hostile gray stalagmites.
Nolfi and the cinematographer, John Toll, have produced a sombrely unified vision of New York as a place of dull skies and frequent downpours, a city whose towers stick up like hostile gray stalagmites.
Stuart Gillis, head of museums at Derby City Council, said his long term vision was for the tour to raise enough revenue to pay for a new gallery in the city.
It is with that vision of a brighter future -- for this city and for the country -- that we begin this project, and I am looking forward to seeing all that you achieve in the years and months to come.
His vision includes making the power-hungry Sun Belt city into a leader in the new energy economy through initiatives like the largest municipally owned mega solar project and the Decade of Downtown inner-city revitalization program.
The City's Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge allowed us to build a team around this vision and share it with the rest of the community.
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Mr Giuliani brought both a vision of a safe, attractive, hard-working city and a mastery of the detail needed to implement it.
Although Koetter Kim has produced some expensive-looking ideas, such as building a funicular railway to link the main station with the city centre, Mr Moore insists that the new vision will be affordable.
Clearly, there are a wealth of political issues at play here assertive unions, flamboyant Tea Partiers, cross-cutting state and city legislators. (The Republican Governor will outline his vision for the referendum this morning.) But a real challenge for the transit plan, one that spans 10 counties, is its very intentional regionalism.
That led to a public row and recriminations - both at odds with the vision of unity and prosperity, as the city uses its hard-won cultural title to rebrand its image at home and abroad.
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