And a key factor is the hurricane that almost destroyed the City.
He said the work looked at the theme of the child in the city in a positive light, unlike the Victorian, negative view of children somehow being destroyed by the city.
Homes and businesses throughout the city were destroyed, officials said, bringing back memories of a 1947 twister that wiped out city blocks in Woodward and killed more than 100.
Strongholds in and around the city have been destroyed, including defensive positions on the outskirts of the city.
When a city is destroyed, what can we say of the buildings that rise in its place?
That policy was made clear this week when city inspectors destroyed illegal buildings in both Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.
Louis before alien terraforming technology destroyed most of the city.
That is despite the ravages wrought by hurricanes in August and September, which not only destroyed a major port city but closed down a big chunk of the energy industry.
"About 30% of the city has been destroyed, so a large number of people have lost their homes, " said WFP spokesperson, Lara Melo.
The British bomb in Koblenz, now covered by just 16 inches of water, is thought to have been dropped in the night of Nov. 6, 1944, when Royal Air Force planes blanketed Koblenz with bombs and destroyed much of the inner city.
By the war's end, air raids had destroyed some 80% of the city.
"Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans -- virtually a city that has been destroyed -- that things are going relatively well, " Brown said.
If the early reports of no deaths or major damage hold, the quake would stand in stark contrast to Mexico's 1985 earthquake that measured 8.0 in magnitude, killed thousands of people and destroyed thousands of buildings in Mexico City, including hospitals, office towers and hotels.
And yet, she keeps the pieces of her destroyed BMW 650 in her New York City apartment.
More than 5, 000 homes in the city alone were damaged or destroyed, and hundreds of businesses in the area were also affected, according the West Alabama Chamber of Commerce.
Yet fighting between the Zetas and the Gulf has destroyed Monterrey's reputation as a safe city.
At least 1, 000 homes were damaged or destroyed as the sea surge moved into the city, witnesses said.
After the great fire of 1871, which destroyed the homes of a third of the city's inhabitants, Chicago decided to rebuild itself in style.
"It's a sad situation, " said Abee Zarkeshan, 58, whose house was destroyed on the east side of this large city block and who isn't sure he'll rebuild.
Several buildings in the city's Garden District are destroyed.
From the air, he wrote, the entire city looked as though it had been destroyed.
On Thursday, a fire destroyed election materials at a depot in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, where electoral commission offices were ransacked earlier in the week.
After the Hurva was destroyed, the rabbis began negotiating the surrender of the Old City to the Arabs.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland have been destroyed and flames have encroached on Portugal's third largest city, Coimbra.
Earlier in the morning the president toured tornado-devastated Pratt City where more than 300 homes were damaged or destroyed during the storms.
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