Mesopotamia created urban culture: Ur, Babylon, Nineveh and countless lesser-known sites are where humans first worked out ways to live together in close quarters in large numbers.
Urban culture caters heavily to autonomous singles, both in its social diversity and in its amenities: gyms, coffee shops, food deliveries, laundromats, and the like ease solo subsistence.
It is the fifth year that the Ideas Lab has taken place, the first time that Dundee participated as a UNESCO designation, bringing settlements together to share stories, short film clips, photographs and sketches that represent and celebrate different aspects of urban culture.
He has taken his time converging into the Los Angeles Urban League culture, cherishing the legacy of his predecessors, treasuring each and every board member, outside supporter, and knowledge-filled employee.
The designation supports developing creative industries, broadening access to culture, raising urban living standards and increasing public participation in civil society, through the growth of digital and electronic technologies.
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"Living culture is critical to the vitality of urban places, " Ms. Phillips told me.
The counter-culture was pleasure-seeking, socially liberal and predominantly urban.
Matson's story is a reminder of a growing problem in many of the nation's busy, sprawling urban landscapes: More people are using bikes for transportation amid a culture and infrastructure designed for automobiles.
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Afghan Authorities, including Mr. Sayed Makhdum Raheen, Minister of Information and Culture and Mr. Sultan Husain Hesari, Minister of Urban Development and national and international experts from different agencies and universities discussed the current condition of cultural heritage in Afghanistan and spotlighted the necessary steps to be taken in the future.
The Seattle-based coffee-shop chain is the latest symbol of American consumer culture to make its mark on China's rapidly changing urban landscape.
But let's put their shared consensus another way: Somehow it became a conventional view in contemporary American politics that it is non-urban conservatives who in every case have to accommodate their beliefs to a national culture created by people who live somewhere else.
Firms including BT and Virgin will be able to bid for the money, which they can use to fill in urban notspots or increase wi-fi coverage, a spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport told the BBC.
Culture creates jobs, carries educational benefits and makes societies more cohesive, especially in urban areas.
In terms of culture, finance, media and certain other transaction-based industries, a number of dense urban cores remain unassailable in their efficiency and appeal.
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