Its "classrooms" have included shopping complexes, museums and the gardens of Meiji Shrine.
These include two shopping complexes - the Arndale and Trafford Centres - the Birdcage nightclub and St Ann's Square.
Downstairs, a Chinese hipster in decidedly untraditional clothing was waiting in a beaten-up city cab, and soon we were hurtling through modern high-rise developments and shopping complexes.
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Rotherham Council said 20 teams - 50 people in all - had been hand-spreading salt around schools, sheltered housing complexes and shopping areas.
The effects can be seen everywhere: in new shopping centers and restaurant complexes, in building sites, in advertisements for the latest laptops and iPods.
That's funding much-needed housing complexes, shopping centers and office buildings while allowing developers to become far more ambitious in the size and type of projects they undertake.
For decades environmentalists have begged governments and business to take account of disappearing forests and the dwindling global water supply when building roads, apartment complexes and shopping malls.
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Lamda Development, the real estate development arm of the billionaire Latsis family, is behind the two largest shopping malls in Greece as well as office and residential complexes.
First begun in 2003, the Xanadu shopping complex was slated to be one of the largest entertainment and retail complexes in the U.S., with 2.2 million square feet of leasable space.
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