In 1959 it still had 1, 800 Jews and was becoming a busy industrial centre.
In particular, it has not seen the clustering of firms and suppliers that is needed to create a self-sustaining industrial centre.
Last year, 15, 000 visitors packed into freight elevators and wandered the gritty hallways of the Wah Luen Industrial Centre (15-21 Wong Chuk Yeung Street), the epicentre of the festival's activities.
No doubt he would have pined less during the late 20th Century, when many parts of the region became something of a hardscrabble industrial centre -- but as local manufacturing faded in the 1970s, rural charm re-emerged.
For example, the 300-room Renaissance Zurich Tower, opened in August 2011, is a central landmark in the blossoming Zurich West district, a former industrial centre now known as the city's zone for artists, designers and musicians.
EU-supported, high-speed rail line runs from Madrid to Seville (you know, that place where they grow oranges and flamenco dancers), while the Catalan capital, Barcelona, Spain's biggest industrial centre and, by the way, on the obvious route to most of Europe is still waiting for its line.
It was the lifting of the pensionable age and complicated changes to the way that pension entitlements are earned that was at the centre of the industrial dispute.
The notion that cars must form the centre of every industrial economy looks pretty quaint given that the combined market value of Detroit's Big Three is dwarfed by that of Bill Gates's Microsoft.
Office towers, housing and a conference and exhibition centre transformed a rundown industrial site.
Staff involved in the "work-in" at the centre on the Sowton Industrial Estate - who were supported by the Unison union - said the new service would employ fewer nurses and more unqualified call handlers, who would just send patients elsewhere.
It includes proposals for a new by-pass in Ballasalla to divert south-bound traffic away from the village centre, through to Balthane Industrial Estate.
But the Liberals' industrial base has contracted and Canada's centre of economic gravity has shifted, westward and towards natural resources.
Other key criteria for the proposed zone included the area being in the city centre, in or near an industrial estate, but away from night-time businesses.
There will be an exciting programme where you will visit key attractions within Blaenavon Industrial Landscape such as Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon Ironworks, visit the industrial landscape, and the Blaenavon World Heritage Centre.
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Instead of repairing old infrastructure, the preference has been for launching huge new projects named after the king: a giant financial centre on the outskirts of Riyadh, industrial cities, a university, and so on.
As in London, the main site was on reclaimed industrial land, a few miles west of the city centre, and it was connected to downtown Sydney by a new train line and ferries.
Craigavon- Northern Ireland Water Depot, Unit 41, Seagoe Industrial Estate, Craigavon, Co Armagh, Craigavon Golf Ski Centre and Lough Neagh Discovery Centre.
Jeannie Drake, the union's deputy general secretary warned that if BT announced any further plans to move call centre jobs to India there would be a ballot for industrial action.
For a more tranquil shopping experience, visit 44 Stanley ( www.44stanley.co.za), a collection of boutiques, design studios and cafes, hidden in the industrial suburb of Milpark on the western fringes of the old City Centre.
City-centre offices have spilled across the River Aire to make once derelict industrial land hum again.
Tensions within Austria's grand coalition of Socialists and the centre-right People's Party are running high as the political and industrial elite, led by Hannes Androsch, a former finance minister, discusses the establishment of a private-equity fund to protect Austrian companies from foreign takeovers.
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To economic liberals in the governing centre-right coalition, this looked like a plot to resurrect old-fashioned industrial policy.
The Ulster Hall is in Belfast city centre and the Duncrue complex is a cleansing depot and vehicle service area in an industrial estate in north Belfast.
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The industry is well chosen for such a study, because innovation and the commercialisation of technology are the centre of its own history, and because the business has played a pivotal role in the industrial and post-industrial revolutions of the richest economies.
Housed in the ultra-modern Stanley Plaza shopping centre but tucked away on its quiet upper levels, The Cupping Room is a welcoming space blending industrial design details (exposed ducts, white brick walls, wood-top tables) and warm, personable service.
Thomas Moritz, of the Umea Plant Science Centre in Sweden, and his colleagues, have found out how to make hybrid poplars that reflect this industrial preference.
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