They used the power of eminent domain to push freeways through the heart of urban areas, destroying some neighborhoods outright and cutting others off from the rest of the city.
By dint of its extreme location on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, a site barely accessible even to the island's 14, 000 inhabitants, the four-acre park is already far removed from the rest of the city.
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City officials say they are prepared to take charge of the Subte if the government pays 10% of its debt to Metrovias and lets the city raise the rest from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.
Thanks to its Modernist architecture, which differs drastically from the rest of the city, some locals feel the building is off scale in comparison to the rest of Seville.
And although the central precinct is planned for Stratford, three miles from the heart of London, events would be held across the city and the rest of the country, he added.
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But though their heart lay in the outback, the rest of their body was, at least from the mid-19th century, firmly in the city or, more exactly, in the suburbs, which is where most live today.
This is what happens when a city is cut off from the rest of the country by desert, developed by the Mob, built on broken get-rich-quick dreams and where visitors outnumber locals nearly 20 to one.
Many watching the scenes from the rest of the country would probably be surprised to have found bars full of customers in much of New York City outside of lower Manhattan, but it is still a prototypical city, still has neighborhoods and still has bars that cater to those neighborhoods.
From 1990 to 2009, while the rest of the nation increased its rate of incarceration by 65%, New York City decreased its prison and jail rates by 28%.
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