The downtown core got a boost with the 2012 opening of the City Creek Center, a shopping mall and mixed-use development of rentals and condos across the street from the Salt Lake Temple, financed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"The need is so vast, " said Lynn Kelly, executive director of the City Bar Justice Center, a nonprofit arm of the New York City Bar Association that has worked on more than 400 Sandy-related cases.
From the top of a skyscraper in the center of the city at night, the lights of apartment buildings and office towers twinkle all the way to the horizon.
After the collapse of a communal grave near the center of the city it was decided to transfer all the bones to one vast ossuary.
On September 19, a group of students took over a public school in the historic center of Guatemala City, in protest of the education reform.
After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 Johannesburg experienced a new, unofficial apartheid as businesses moved away from downtown to the city's wealthier, whiter, northern suburbs, leaving the city center a shadow of its once dynamic self.
The bullpen became the operational nerve center of city government and a signature feature of the Bloomberg administration.
The GSM Association, which organizes the shows, expects more than 70, 000 attendees, and the demand for exhibit space has forced a move from the historic conference center at the foot of the Montjuic hill to a larger, more modern venue further from the city center.
The family lived in a large residence in the very center of the city and regularly entertained relatives and friends.
If places like this are still too close for comfort, opt to inch even farther out of the center at an accommodation situated in the outlying areas of a city.
This spring the company opened in New York, the first of five planned city-center stores in the U.S. It boasts a latte bar, scores of high-resolution flat-panel displays and a studio for a budding financial news and information operation.
This spring the company opened onMadison Avenue in New York, the first of five planned city-center stores in the U.S. It boasts a latte bar, scores of high-resolution flat-panel displays and a studio for a budding financial news and information operation that serves radio and the Web.
The excitement over Jeremy Lin feels authentic and loud, a city confidently reset as the center of a self-created universe.
It will take in two other mega-projects: the planned administrative center of Putrajaya and a separate "intelligent city" nearby that will provide commercial and residential facilities for the MSC's high-tech work force.
In Tokyo, a city of 12 million, the Disaster Prevention Center operates a command room 24 hours a day and holds drills for everything from smallpox to missile attacks.
Pre-planning extends to knowing the physical location of the airport you fly into, too, as it relates to the city center, says Malin, who's made the mistake of choosing a cheaper flight into a satellite airport that required more transit time to reach the city center.
But it also reflects a cosmopolitan tradition that has long been part of the character of this diverse Mediterranean port city, a thriving trading center for thousands of years and a place where 18 officially recognized religious sects live -- most of the time -- in a state of respectful coexistence.
At the center of the antispam effort is a small Redwood City, Calif. not-for-profit organization called Mail Abuse Prevention System or MAPS (spam spelled backwards).
At an operations control center in the English city of Derby, a handful of railway engineers spend their days focusing intently on four large wall-mounted computer screens displaying data about the conditions of the engines, the heating and cooling systems and whether a door might be jammed on any of 33 Scottish trains.
Crossing downtown Seoul is the Cheonggye stream -- a river that was covered by a road until it was unearthed in 2005 and transformed into one of the city center's most popular urban oases and worth a stroll in the evening.
Bowden accompanied the Queen's Dragoons Guards as they pushed within a couple of miles of the city's center Saturday.
The facility -- the largest public hospital in the city and a comprehensive trauma center -- was accommodating scores of patients Friday before it was emptied.
That was the news over the weekend from the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Boston, where a team of researchers from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center presented evidence demonstrating the effects of aspirin against two types of breast cancer.
The Catalan capital is still a city best enjoyed from outside the city center, thanks to some of its whimsical architecture, courtesy of Antoni Gaudi .
They were kidnapped from a government building in the center of the city.
Four days later, two other soldiers were shot dead and another injured by a black-clad man wearing a motorcycle helmet in a shopping center in the city of Montauban, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Toulouse.
Martin van Vliet, a researcher at the African Studies Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, said that while Timbuktu was no longer a city of vital economic or military importance, it stood out as an important prize for the rebels due to its symbolic significance.
The city has long been a center of health-related research, having given rise decades agoto medical-device maker Stryker Corp.
He grew up near a cultural center, the Hellenized city of Sepphoris.
Pittsburgh "has transformed itself from the city of steel to a center for high-tech innovation -- including green technology, education and training, and research and development, " the president said.
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