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.
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.
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.
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.
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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On the outskirts of the city, a modern toll road appears from nowhere and soars over lush rice fields.
The modern-day city has several world class research institutes, colleges and progressive environmental NGOs.
Today, the pair's modern counterparts in the university city continue to work on DNA's complexities.
In fact, for the most part, the city is a modern metropolis dotted with luxury shops such as Louis Vuitton.
The most recent addition to the city's modern landscape is Dutch architect Rem Koohaas' " Transformer ".
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.
The square forms part of the mayor's Connecting Leicester plans to link historic parts of the city with the modern shopping areas.
The kinda in, kinda now, kinda cool youth that are stylin along the city streets are modern, relevant and connected.
Elsewhere, much has changed: Ottoman minarets pierce the sky and outside the old city the prosperous Akko is unmistakably modern Israel.
The GSM Association, which organizes the shows, expects more than 70, 000 attendees, and the demand for exhibit space has forced a move from the historic conference center at the foot of the Montjuic hill to a larger, more modern venue further from the city center.
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.
The photographs will go on display in Lyon in November, as part of the city's biennial modern art festival.
The folks of modern real-life Mason City do appear to share that belief themselves - the American certainty that the old-fashioned virtues of the New World will somehow prevail in a crisis.
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In her mind, she holds an alternative map of the centre of the city: one which, instead of modern buildings and highways crowded with traffic, has ancient walls, baths and residences dating back to Roman, Hellenistic and even prehistoric times.
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.
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.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
That led to helping the village revive its business of making silk weavings with age-old techniques but with modern designs that sell in the city.
Art Deco's simplified, streamlined forms, thrusting vertical elements and geometric ornamentation captured the spirit of a rising city determined to secure its place in the modern world.
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