Concurrently, a strong City Beautiful movement, promoted by Mayor Frank Kanning Mott, was responsible for creating and preserving parks and monuments in Oakland, including major improvements to Lake Merritt and the construction of Oakland Civic Auditorium, which cost $ 1M in 1914.

The Oak View Civic Council ( OVCC ) focuses on community improvements and events.

Civic improvements in the 1940s included an extensive paving project and a commercial airfield.

The following year, one of the most important bond elections in the city's history passed for the funding of the construction of the Abilene Civic Center and the Taylor County Coliseum, as well as major improvements to Abilene Regional Airport.

Further Civic improvements included the construction in 1759 of a reservoir which supplied water to public pumps in the streets.

" The Merion Civic Association made several important improvements to Merion such as paving, better lighting, cast-iron street signs, better fire and police protection, and planned tree-planting.

The university saw a number of campus improvements including construction of the Center for Civic Engagement, the L. Gale Lemerand School of Nursing, the creation of the Alexis Pugh and Eugene Zimmerman Scholarship houses, and the provision of a university-owned house as an alumni center during her tenure.

Following the Second World War, the City Planning Commission, in conjunction with the Borough President ’ s Office, presented and adopted a Master Plan for the Civic Center, which included an ambitious public improvements program.

In 2005, Wilson filed a report regarding the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, a fund created by Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to help improvements in education and voter empowerment.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

At the time of the Lisbon Treaty ratification, they were actively campaigning against it, unlike the governing Civic Democratic Party, who endorsed it in the Chamber of Deputies.

Most locations for filming were in the San Francisco area, including the then unfinished tunnels of the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) subway system, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, the San Francisco International Airport and at a remote manipulator for a hot cell.

Cameron attended a gathering at Warsaw's Palladium cinema celebrating the foundation of the new alliance ; also present were Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of PiS, and Mirek Topolánek, leader of the Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) in the Czech Republic.

San Diego Civic Light Opera ( 1983 ), Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera ( 1965, 1967, 1974, 1984, 1990, 1999, 2008 ), and Banff Musical Theatre ( 1984 ) were among the first smaller regional companies to produce it.

The exteriors ( including the roof scene ), and some of the interior shots, of the Gattaca complex were filmed at Frank Lloyd Wright's 1960 Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California.

Next to the Duomo were the Civic Tower ( existing at least from 1330 and enlarged in 1583 by Pellegrino Tibaldi ): its fall on March 17, 1989, was the final motivating force that started the last decade's efforts to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from a similar fate.

Civic disorders at Bologna were prolonged, so Pope Eugene IV soon named him as one of the legates sent to Frankfurt.

Works such as Ildefons Cerda's General Theory of Urbanization ( 1867 ), Camillo Sitte ’ s City Planning According to Artistic Principles ( 1889 ), and Robinson ’ s The Improvement of Cities and Towns ( 1901 ) and Modern Civic Art ( 1903 ), all were primarily concerned with urban design, as did the later City Beautiful movement in North America.

The scenes of police chasing a half-naked intruder and of Grant berating the promoter for receiving kickbacks were both shot at the Baltimore Civic Center on 23 July 1973.

In 1990 the political landscape of the Czech Republic and Slovakia started to develop and many new political parties were formed, mainly from the Civic Forum and the VPN.

The winners of the June 1992 elections in Czechoslovakia and new prime ministers were the Civic Democratic Party led by Václav Klaus in the Czech Republic and the HZDS led by Vladimír Mečiar in Slovakia.

In the Toronto area, " Teleguide " terminals were common fixtures at larger shopping malls, government buildings ( e. g. Scarborough Civic Centre ) and notably the Toronto Eaton Centre.

With Cadena on board, Black Flag began national touring in earnest, and arguably saw two peaks: first as a commercial draw ( they sold out the 3, 500-seat Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, a feat they were never able to manage again ); and second, perhaps seeing the peak of attention from police in the Los Angeles area, due to the violence associated with Black Flag and punk rock in general.

More indications of the increasing population were the building of Brandon Community Hospital and the Brandon Cultural Center ( now the Center Place Fine Arts and Civic Association ).

The Port Sulphur school and other buildings located around the Civic Drive area were originally located on company property and are oriented towards the former Freeport Property.

Outside the Civic Center complex, Southfield also has municipal parks and recreation facilities, which were largely developed in the 1970s, including Beech Woods Recreation Center and John Grace Community Center.

Later developments in this corridor were the Ford airport ( later converted to the Dearborn Proving Grounds ), other Ford administrative and development facilities, The Henry Ford ( the region's leading tourist attraction containing a reconstructed historic village and museum ), the Henry Ford Centennial Library, the super-regional shopping mall Fairlane Town Center, and the Dearborn Civic Center.

Despite opposition against the new plan, the Marcos government gained Congressional approval and Philippine troops were sent from the middle of 1966 as the Philippines Civic Action Group ( PHILCAG ).

Entry level Pintos were priced on launch at around $ 1850, making the Pinto the least expensive Ford since the " Six " of 1958, undercutting GM's Chevrolet Vega and directly targeting imported models — which continued to add competitors such as the Mazda 1200 in 1971, the Subaru DL in 1972, and the Honda Civic in 1973.

The pops concerts were usually given in the Civic Auditorium.

The by-elections were triggered by the resignation of five members of the Legislative Council, one each from the territory's five constituencies, three of them from the League of Social Democrats, and the other two from the Civic Party.

The next day two public ceremonies were also held at the New Orleans Civic Auditorium, where 14, 000 seats were sold for each.

In the Fall of 2011, the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement made its appearance at two locales in Berkeley: on the campus of the University of California and as an encampment in Civic Center Park.

Attempts have been made to have the official provincial name — still Civic Holiday — amended, but none have succeeded.

Due to discontent towards the proposal of political reform made by the Hong Kong government, the Civic Party and the League of Social Democrats joined together to carry out " Five Constituencies Referendum " in early 2010, by having one Legislative Councillors ( from either one of the parties ) in each constituency resigned, forcing the government to carry out a by-election, thus giving a chance for all voters to show their will towards universal suffrage and the abolishment of functional constituencies. Quite often, it is refereed as " De facto referendum ".

In April 1981, Glass Harp reunited when Sferra and Pecchio made surprise appearances at two consecutive Phil Keaggy solo concerts in Ohio ( Cleveland's Masonic Auditorium on April 10, and Akron's Civic Theatre on April 11 ).

The Glen Ridge Civic Conference Committee, established in 1913, is made up of delegates from the community and from local civic organizations, provides a non-partisan method of candidate selection for Borough elections.

Civic leaders have consistently made note of the Stampede's impact on the city.

After a stint with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater and a short period of vagrancy involving hitchhiking, freight hopping, picking fruit, logging in the Pacific Northwest ( Preston Sturges conceived the film Sullivan's Travels after hearing Garfield tell of his hobo adventures ) Garfield made his Broadway debut in 1932, in a play called Lost Boy.

In 1988, COPE entered the election an equal partner with the newly-formed Civic New Democrats, a party directly affiliated with the BC NDP ; led by anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson, the coalition made few gains but under the leadership of Jim Green in 1990, it came close to winning the election.

He formed the Civic Trust in 1956 and was its President ; the Royal Institution of British Architects made him an honorary Fellow in 1968, and the Royal Town Planning Institute made him an honorary member.

The WHA officially made its debut on October 11, 1972, in the Ottawa Civic Centre, when the Alberta Oilers defeated the Ottawa Nationals 7-4.

The Honda Civic is a line of subcompact and subsequently compact cars made and manufactured by Honda.

From 1995 – 2000 the Civic was sold under the CX, DX, EX, SE ( Canada only ), EXR, HX, LX, and Si trims ; all base models were made with 1. 6L engines.

The company made its mark in American opera long before the upsurge of regional opera in the US. Maria Callas opened the Civic Opera's first season with an inaugural recital conducted by Rescigno.

Paige sang at the opening of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then made her Los Angeles concert debut at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

In 1999, Civic, Social, and Political Education was introduced as a subject, and made mandatory from 2000, when Religious Education was also brought in.

Many Civic hybrid owners are not happy with the gas mileage claims made by Honda and have filed a class action lawsuit against Honda.

Civic involvement is encouraged and made more effective through the use of information channels.

The Americans who, in the words of United Press International ( UPI ) sports writer Joe Carnicelli, " made the last-minute score almost their trademark ", were upset 26 – 21 by the Portland Storm with 14, 273 in the stands at Civic Stadium ( now PGE Park ).

With the introduction of the similarly powerful and less expensive 2006 model-year Honda Civic Si to the marketplace, the decision was made to discontinue production of the RSX, with the final units built in summer 2006.

With the construction of the Civic Arena in the Hill District large African-American populations made Hazelwood a home.

The clear boards made for better sightlines for most spectators seated between the blue lines, since the seating angles in the Civic Center were shallow.

The huge supermarket as well as the other shops promised to create hundreds more jobs then would be lost through the loss of trade in the Civic Centre, this was no doubt one factor which made the redevelopment favourable with many Seacroft residents.