One can see that this was once a vibrant city with an active commercial class.
Tom Hall from Lonely Planet said Derry was a vibrant city and was undergoing a renaissance.
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Glasgow is a vibrant city with a legendary music scene that stretches across the whole spectrum from contemporary and classical, to Celtic and Country.
"Picturesque plazas, baroque 17th-century cathedrals and the snow-covered peaks beyond form a backdrop to a vibrant city in motion, " begins BBC Travel.
Fleur de-Rhe Philipe, from Wiltshire Council, said the study supported the authority's belief that Salisbury was "a vibrant city with lots of opportunities for local businesses".
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How big a job are people taking on here when they commit to making this a vibrant city again and a safer city in the same location?
These days, Perth is a vibrant cosmopolitan city which still enjoys Mediterranean climate and rightly claims to offer more hours of sunshine than any other Australian state capital.
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Once a vibrant and beautiful city, Detroit is sinking from its own ineptitude and greed.
Mozambique's capital, Maputo is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city bursting with lively sidewalk cafes and jazz venues.
The escalator helps create "a more convenient and vibrant city life for residents in the region, " a Wheelock spokesman said.
Despite the challenges, Cairo remains a fascinating, vibrant city, and local optimists argue that dangerous areas are few and far between.
In America today, a house in a safe neighborhood with good public schools featuring a convenient commute to the central business district of an economically vibrant city is a scarce commodity.
The shipping-container mall, with bank branches, fashion shops and a two-story cafe, has become a vibrant though temporary new city heart amid the rubble and din of heavy machinery demolishing condemned buildings.
Even as the Orchard has shifted from dealing in boxes of silvery discs to managing millions of digital songs, the company's real-world roots in a city with vibrant music and startup scenes has remained important.
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The story deftly navigates the intricacies of creative life in a repressive society, and Ghobadi brilliantly captures the vibrant city with the skill of a great neorealist.
It is an economically vibrant city replete with a medical school, a hockey rink, and most importantly a robust military establishment.
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Graeme Reid, the council's inner-city manager, argues that it is neither feasible nor desirable for the area to go back to what it was, but that a new, vibrant, multi-ethnic city is evolving.
The city is also home to a vibrant fashion community, where dozens of independent designers and clothing brands influence country and continent-wide fashion trends.
Hundreds died in the illness outbreak that also crippled the Hong Kong economy and cast a gloomy pall on the normally vibrant and energetic city.
The contrast between the staid exteriors and the vibrant interiors of homes is a metaphor for the city, says Val Nehez, an interior designer who works both out of Philadelphia and New York.
The Plug-In City had the vibrant social dynamic of a cocktail party.
The Procession is a vibrant example of how a collective ceremony can unite a city through ritual enactment of its history and beliefs.
Belfast Lord Mayor, Gavin Robinson, said the four-day programme would "be a vibrant and exciting time" for Belfast and that the city was "going to be buzzing".
Among the city's advantages are a cosmopolitan crowd and a vibrant dance-music culture, spawned in part by the popularity of the drug ecstasy.
Today, it remains a city both in name and in feel, with a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly downtown lined with independent stores, ethnic restaurants and coffee shops, as well as the Bergen Performing Arts Center, a theater, gallery and concert venue.
But with the opening of the city's first contemporary art museums, the country's first W Hotel, and a growing restaurant scene, tourists are starting to get a taste of the vibrant cultural life that has been bubbling beneath the city's ornate veneer.
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Hardeep ends his visit by attending a service at the City Temple evangelical Christian church, and wonders whether this vibrant form of Christianity is the future of worship.
Indeed, just rehabbing the existing building would have been cheaper, Leder noted, but that wouldn't have upheld the vision that Mayer, the Warner brothers, Laemmle and the others had when they moved a congregation founded downtown in 1862 to the edge of a barley field and laid the foundation for what would become one of the city's most vibrant areas.
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