But in the days that followed, we ventured beyond the modern city, into Yunnan Province.
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The designer, 68, sees his work as a pitched effort to bring a bit of quietude to the modern city.
The "New Frontier" rooms are stocked with kid-friendly interactive multimedia games that teach about conservation, the environment and life in the modern city.
They then move into progressively larger and more open streetscapes leading at last to the modern city, bustling with its mural art.
As environmental concerns become ever more prevalent, some architects are moving away from the glass, steel and concrete model of modern city building.
So to spectacular Yokohama for the finale, with Japan's tallest building and the world's biggest ferris wheel as landmarks for a modern city.
Reaching La Paz, 362km south, the modern city is framed with a long oceanfront malecon (promenade), busy with locals walking or jogging as the sun sets.
It hints at an image of what Monrovia could be like - a modern city with opportunities for the ambitious graduates we could see around us.
Soft City, which depicts disillusion with capitalism and life in the modern city, was created between 1969 and 1974 and all 154 pages are displayed in the exhibition.
The Forum was held at the modern city campus of the Universidade Gamo Filho and attended by more than 80 participants including government representatives, civil society, academia, media and students.
Leopold II of Belgium had likewise remade Brussels into a modern city punctuated by royal monuments, streamlined facades and broad new boulevards that implied not only prosperity but a controlling order.
Paris was spared the most uncomfortable experience a big modern city can have, for the water system has continued to work, a very important factor not only in sanitation but morale.
Since the creation of the modern City Council in 1989, when the municipal legislature was granted full power over the budget, a bill has never made it to the floor without the express support of the speaker.
For Ffion Lloyd, Ryder Cup project director at Newport City Council, the tournament is already playing a key role in Newport's continuing redevelopment from a former industrial town to a modern city with a diversified and growing economy.
Unlike the Bund of the late 19th and early 20th Century, which had a reputation for exclusivity, modern developments have made the historic waterfront more universally accessible, opening the area to a wider demographic and providing a natural centre to a modern city.
While a recent inflow of migrants from eastern Europe has restored to Salonika some of its old diversity, not much in today's spanking modern city reminds the visitor of a rich, cosmopolitan past: only the ghosts evoked by an occasional Jewish or Ottoman building, if you are sensitive to that kind of thing.
The indigenous tribe founded a city called Tenochtitlan in the valley now occupied by the modern Mexico City.
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The obvious next step, to him at least, was to create his own bike, one built exclusively for getting around the modern US city.
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Somewhere in this stew of stories is an attempt to savor the many ingredients of a modern multicultural city, as well as an old-style injunction to follow your dream, but neither is discernible for long, due to the ham-fisted nature of the filmmaking.
The modern-day city has several world class research institutes, colleges and progressive environmental NGOs.
Just upstream from modern day Brazzaville city are the huge "cataracts" - rocks which, for millenia, have stopped river boats passing this point.
Even in New York City, modern-day mecca of psychoanalysis, CBT "is spreading everywhere, " says New York psychologist Robert Leahy, author of The Worry Cure.
Vampire Weekend will play the Aug. 2-4 festival in Chicago just months after their upcoming album, "Modern Vampires of the City, " is released in May.
Stocked with architectural gems, including Art Deco and Miami Modern buildings, the city wanted to ensure that its parking structures "became urban assets rather than urban albatrosses, " Mr. Cary says.
Modern Berlin is a city escaping the weight of its history, yet while Berliners seem intent on inventing their own future, visitors will find themselves constantly reminded of the city's past.
Again, Omaha was once a modern, heavily populated city.
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Rabat, modern capital and historic City (Morocco): a shared heritage, on Atlantic coast in the northwest of the country, is the product of a fertile exchange between the Arabo-Muslim past and Western modernism.
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