Today, Old Shanghai is walled in by the apartment and office towers slowly and inevitably approaching from all sides.
The walled in town with castles and fortresses is right on the coast.
Wearing a baggy, navy corduroy suit brightened by a turquoise Little Bear tie, Hirsh, 51, is holding court in his cinder-block-walled office in a former munitions factory in Toronto.
For years, a holiday in the Dominican Republic entailed staying at a walled-in, cookie-cutter resort.
Unless you already happen to live beside a stunning mountain lake in Guatemala or inside a fairy-tale walled garden in Varanasi, you are far, far away, but your individual comforts and desires are still in familiar focus.
The city was formally founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, and is now the only walled city in the Americas north of Mexico.
Here in Qobtan Jebel, a pinprick village of century-old stone walled homes in the hills west of Aleppo, Mr. Shehab Eddin's word is law, at least for now.
Too often, modern television audiences are walled off in their own taste silos.
The block-wide, walled-in Czech beer garden has enough picnic tables to comfortably seat 800 and is merrily packed all summer with pitcher-swilling, sausage-eating bonhomie.
According to Umansky, the Hollywood dream couple purchased the glass-walled home in 2005 and were considering completely remodeling the one-story home but decided in the end it was too much work.
And if the new owners get to feeling cramped, they can always expand--Pulte designs the houses so that a third story or a walled-in patio out back can easily be added.
In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.
What makes the success of "Clybourne Park" so interesting is that American theater is a monoculture, a thick-walled bubble in which you'll look long and hard to find anyone with an opinion about anything that is anywhere other than well to the left of center.
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In fact, several of the more sophisticated spots are in hotels, including the glass-walled Blu Horizon in the Shangri-La overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hemmesphere in the Establishment Hotel and the cavernous lobby-level Water Bar in BLUE Sydney.
This year is the 400th anniversary of the building of the city walls that make Derry one of the finest examples of a walled city anywhere in Europe.
Meanwhile, Abdelazziz lives in a walled concrete compound with thundering diesel generators providing 24-hour electricity.
Many of the old plant varieties found in the walled garden from the original estate were replanted and regrown.
In a walled vineyard belonging to a former poppy farmer Mr Shaulis has set up a drip irrigation system.
Still, there is an extensive security presence in the walled colonial city of Cartagena for the summit -- including more than 7, 600 police officers and thousands more troops.
It will require a departure from the walled-garden mentality in which the operation of a static Web site or a network of disparate branded blogs has been the status quo.
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Near the medina and the Menara gardens, the hotel is set in 40 walled acres of Moorish gardens and every one of the 139 rooms and suites has a balcony that overlooks them.
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More than 7, 600 police officers and thousands more troops are set to be deployed in the walled colonial city as part of stepped up security for the summit, which started Monday with a youth conference.
Mark Kurlansky is eating a steaming plate of chipirones en su tinta (squid in its own ink) at Marichu, a quaint, brick-walled Basque restaurant near United Nations headquarters in Manhattan.
They adjoin one another in glass-walled offices with Fiorina inhabiting a far corner.
Geography was much more significant in a more walled off economic era.
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Now they are prized and pricey, found on mezzanines overlooking the kitchen or in glass-walled rooms adjoining the "hot line, " where cooks dish up their vittles.
Sipping lemon-ginger tea on the cushions of our house's rooftop pavilion, I watch the first light spangle the leaves of the poplars along the village's irrigation stream, see lambs herded into a small willow-walled corral, a woman in a black robe and orange head scarf testing her lower back after filling her buckets.
Nudged up in the northeast of Switzerland, walled by mountains, the town and the surrounding hamlets abound with prim chalets, their window boxes overflowing in riotous reds and pinks.
In a white-walled village where the sun made me squint, I went to see a doctor.
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