Petersburg is an open city which historically has united various cultures.
The series took more than a decade to travel to the U.S., where the first four books were published by a small press, Open City Books, and sold modestly.
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In Open City, writer Teju Cole describes Colonel Tassin - a (real) 19th Century figure - who kept count of the number of birds killed by flying into the Statue of Liberty, as many as 1, 400 a night.
The Ferragamos, from Florence, have paid municipal workers' salaries to open the city's ancient center on weekends.
The business community likes what it sees so far, particularly a proposal to open the city's much underutilized waterfront to developers and a promise of speedy approval.
Councilman Daniel Dromm's proposal would open all city elections to foreigners who are in the country legally and have lived in the city for at least six months.
With the company's core rural consumers saturated with stores, union-pandering urban politicians making it tough to impossible to open big city locations, and overseas missteps in key markets like Germany and South Korea, there's reason to believe Wal-Mart's growth phase is near its end.
New stores will open in the city center, and new corporate offices will be built in the financial district.
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As a liberal city open to the world, Odessa was an aberration by the 19th-century standards of the Russian empire.
The first gym will open in Mexico City in mid November and the singer herself is slated to visit on November 29th.
But states like Nevada and New Jersey are moving toward introducing regulated online poker within their states, with New Jersey legislators considering a law that would only make the market for online poker players in the state open to Atlantic City casinos.
"BEACON is New York City's next generation open communications platform, connecting the city and its services with our communities, businesses, residents, and visitors, " said the Beacon team.
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Wal-Mart stores, given their large size, tend to be located in relatively open parts of a city.
If we can open firehouses in Baghdad, then we can keep them open in New York City.
Meanwhile, businesses in Worcester say the city is open for trade as usual.
The more open and multifarious the city becomes, the more it attracts people who want it to stay that way.
On education, the mayor said the city will open 26 new charter schools in September and work toward approving more for 2014.
And Brannan has taken the unusual step of writing an open letter to the city's evening newspaper regarding the plight of the club.
Meanwhile, church supporters will be appealing to the state Assembly to pass a bill that would force the city to open up schools to worship.
The massive, open world of LEGO City lets players explore the city using numerous vehicles from the real-life play sets to pursue criminal mastermind Rex Fury.
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He collaborated with Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci on his latest project, "An Economy of Grace, " which will open at New York City's Sean Kelly Gallery this month.
The toads' destination: their birthplace in the Roxborough Reservoir, which once provided drinking water to Philadelphians and is now preserved as open space in the city's park system.
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For DBS to get full control, Indonesian regulators said, Singapore would have to allow more Indonesian banks to open branches in the city-state, in what they called a "reciprocity" arrangement.
Should he decide to leave his home in Madrid to take in one of the world's greatest fixtures, there is no doubt he would be welcomed back with open arms in the city he once adorned.
Mr Scadding hopes the parade will provoke similar support among Newport residents as Sunday's Cardiff City parade did in the capital, when the Bluebirds toured in open-top buses from the city centre to Cardiff Bay to celebrate their promotion to the Premier League.
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Green u-City will also provide an open-source development platform for local developers to create further apps, either for city managers or for citizens.
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