It is thought as many as 40, 000 people may have still been in the city at the height of the inferno.
The levees intended to protect the city vary in height, from as low as 10 feet above sea level to about 14 feet, he said.
Indeed, the financial and organizational history behind the Heisman Trophy is just as open to debate as the award itself has been since it was first handed out in New York City at the height of the Depression in 1935.
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.
Viewed from a height, the city seems to spread out in an endless expanse of mundane, low-rise buildings.
He also said developers have the option of rebuilding aging buildings or building in nearby office districts outside city limits with less-restrictive height limits.
Zoning and height restrictions limit constructions in the city centre from being more than 99m high.
Later this year the city will decide whether to reduce the maximum height of downtown buildings from 60ft to 40ft (18 metres to 12 metres).
It is the height of the holiday season but Derry City Airport is empty.
In Dubai City the central stump of Burj Dubai is steadily gaining height.
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New York's 432 Park Avenue, potentially the city's tallest residential building when completed in 2016, may also be one of the city's skinniest, with a width-to-height ratio that could require more complicated dampening techniques.
At the height of the storm, about 100, 000 Kansas City Power and Light customers were without power, the company said.
Facing the demands of a growing population and business district, the nation's capital is reconsidering a height limit on buildings that has defined the low-slung city.
With its short life and great height, the spiky Shard graphically illustrates exponentially increasing inner-city land values, while the chaos of old and new masonry surrounding it testifies to the greed and short-termism of successive generations.
At least 15 engines and 75 firefighters were called in to tackle the height of the blaze in a disused warehouse in the east of the city.
At the height of the shelling of Sarajevo, the Bosnian Serbs poured 3, 500 shells on the city a day.
During the height of their civilization in the 8th century, the Maya recorded dates and deeds at dozens of city-states, from births and battles to the triumphant wrenching of trophies from enemies.
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