Only a fraction of the original city remains, but in their age and scale, the ruins are reminiscent of the Angkorean temples of Cambodia.
While both the London Plan and PlanNYC represent compelling efforts to re-invent the aging electric infrastructure in London and New York City, they ultimately seem inadequate given the scale of the challenge the cities face in this regard.
Thanks to its Modernist architecture, which differs drastically from the rest of the city, some locals feel the building is off scale in comparison to the rest of Seville.
Artist Luzinterruptus fitted 10, 000 books that had been discarded by public libraries with LED lights and covered the streets of Melbourne with them, and in an exciting development the much-anticipated Low Line underground park in NYC debuted a full-scale model of their incredible fiber-optic solar-concentrating technology in New York City's lower east side.
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Mischel is also preparing a large-scale study involving hundreds of schoolchildren in Philadelphia, Seattle, and New York City to see if self-control skills can be taught.
The yards and meters labels on the scale of a map of Vatican City, which was contained in a World News graphic on Saturday about the papal conclave, were incorrectly reversed.
The RSC season will not be on the scale of previous years, when the company would take over multiple theatres in the city.
The scale of the casualties is not yet known, but tens of thousands of people remain in the devastated city of New Orleans while 75, 000 people have been forced to take shelter in neighbouring Texas.
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The Flash-based tool in one example showed a map of London, and with the touch of a sliding scale you see areas of the city where housing is a certain price and commute times are a specific length.
With no evaluation deal in place, the city will revert to its previous system of grading teachers on the up-or-down scale.
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