On most Wednesday nights for the last seven years, hundreds of cyclists have joined in the Ciclopaseo ride, a Critical Mass-style pedal through the city streets that is about the fun of riding and also stands as a political message about cycling rights in the city.
For nearly 90 years until production ceased in 1999, a factory made pasta where the library now stands, in a square near the city's centre.
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Proprietors generally license the stands from the city and a private vendor.
Lescott, linked to a move to Manchester City, watched from the stands as his teammates built up a comfortable first leg advantage.
On his wall hung a painting of the huge conical brick structure that still stands at the west of the city, built by the British to store rice after a devastating famine in the 1770s.
"The idea of just slapping on a congestion charge to Bristol as it stands will have a negative impact on motorists and the city's economic livelihood, " he added.
The titanic red-brick mill built by Izrael Poznanski, Lodz's most flamboyant industrialist, still stands sentinel over the heart of the city, a cathedral to 19th-century capitalism.
The city centers are chaotic, and the contents of a shopping list are distributed over dozens of different stores or street stands.
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Across Kansas City in Lenexa, real estate agent Charles Wilson stands in the kitchen of a two-year-old townhouse.
And a bleached 18th-Century mission house still stands at the city's epicentre, one of the oldest buildings in America and perhaps the closest this nation has to a site of pilgrimage.
Now in its sixth year, Contemporary Istanbul stands as something of a symbol for the changes that have overtaken this city in the past decade, not just culturally, but socially, as well.
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The largest, the 6-meter Large Zenith Telescope (LZT) operated by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, stands on a hilltop in a research forest some 40 miles east of the city.
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