Daily commuting meant being confronted by prostitution, drug use, public urination, theft urban life run amok.
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Its goal is to explore new ideas, experiment, and ultimately the create forward-thinking solutions for urban life.
After a long career as a theoretical physicist, Geoffrey West began studying the science of urban life.
The movement of rural Indians to urban life could play a big role in achieving that rate.
In the developing world, Urban life is a hieronymus Bosch-like vision of tangled traffic, crumbling infrastructure, overcrowding and crippling economic inefficiencies.
It still provides an antidote to the deadening commercialism of contemporary urban life.
As a faith-based creed, populism always tended to corrode respect for elite achievement, individualism, urban life, secularism, and capitalism.
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Today the Hawkesbury River valley is home to those wanting to escape a busy, urban life, as well as legions of tourists.
Other places around the country are also grappling with an influx a cycle that has become a fact of urban life.
An entrepreneurial market economy became a defining feature of Greek urban life.
Iranians seem stoic, but the pressures of urban life take their toll.
This is not a how-to guide, but a call to legs: anyone can, and should, escape urban life and run, he writes.
This panorama of Northeastern urban life is filled with intrigue and conflict.
Called BMW Guggenheim Lab, the partnership is a six-year-long program designed to help architects, engineers, artists and scientists design new models for urban life worldwide.
The site is part public park, part wildlife sanctuary, part space for installation art -- just one more piece of reclaimed land enriching Berlin's urban life.
But the exhibition also focuses on the specific innovations developed at Uruk and shows how they often arose in response to new challenges posed by urban life.
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From its treehouse perspective, modern-day archaeologists and architecture enthusiasts can take in rooftop gardens, slices of gritty urban life and views of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building.
We dream of these cities as being well-managed and administered, relatively clean and absent of congestion, offering mobility, access, the capacity to partake and enjoy in urban life.
"One of the joys of urban life is the collision of uses, the chance to sit and observe the passing scene, to see and be seen, " he adds.
Cities around the world have been trying to lure commuters out of their cars and onto mass transit with the aim of making urban life cleaner and greener.
MST's political success is stimulating a new migration to the countryside, as the children of those who moved to the cities find that urban life offers only unemployment.
With that comes opportunities of great interventions, new projects, rethinking urban transportation, creating vast new park systems, and experimenting with urban design strategies that might improve the quality of urban life.
You are in the middle of the city, part of an urban life that was as much a target of the terrorists in 2001 as the lives of three thousand people.
The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Church's Bishop for Urban Life and Faith, said he feared Britain would simply return to a "financial system based on indebtedness" after the current crisis.
The director, Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Meg, pretends to confront the chaos of contemporary urban life: free-floating anger and violence, racial abrasions, the fragility of family bonds.
When HIV arrived in Leopoldville-Kinshasa, it was one of the burgeoning cities of late colonial Africa, rich with a new kind of urban life and music like this, recorded in the mid-50s.
But Chicago, like almost all America's older cities, still faces the prospect of decline, or at best stasis, unless it can find the elixir of urban life how to grow richer without growing bigger.
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Born less than a month apart in 1882, Hopper and Bellows were fellow students of Robert Henri, patriarch of the Ashcan School, an early-20th-century movement known for its gritty depictions of urban life.
In any event, other trends suggest that for every Timmy Willie, there is a Johnny Town-Mouse: many people like urban life and want to go on living in a city, particularly the centre.
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