In 1950 Gordon Childe attempted to define a historic city with 10 general metrics.

Between 1950 and 1960, the city achieved an economic expansion in excess of 100 % and outlying neighborhoods began to grow.

The city has hosted several promotional functions and some international sports events: in 1950 it hosted the VI Central American and Caribbean Games, and in 2000 the FIFA Futsal World Championship.

Since inaugural event in 1950, Indianapolis is the only city in the United States to have hosted the event.

This was followed by the Kunstpreis of the Bayrische Akademie der Schönen Künste ( 1950 ), the Arnold Schönberg Medal of the IGNM ( 1954 ), the Große Kunstpreis of the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen ( 1957 ), as well as the Ludwig Spohr Award of the city of Braunschweig, the Schwabing Kunstpreis ( 1961 ) and the Bavarian Medal of Merit ( 1959 ).

Curt Valentin began exhibiting Marini ’ s work at his Buchholz Gallery in New York in 1950, on which occasion the sculptor visited the city and met Jean Arp, Max Beckmann, Alexander Calder, Lyonel Feininger, and Jacques Lipchitz.

The city again became a voivodeship capital ; in 1950 the size of Poznań Voivodeship was reduced, and the city itself was given separate voivodeship status.

While 680, 000 people lived in the city proper in 1950, a combination of suburbanization and economic turbulence caused a sharp decrease in city population to just 330, 000 in the year 2000.

During winter, average temperatures in the city center fall below freezing levels (− 2 ° C / 28 ° F ) and significant accumulations of snow can occur: the historic average of Milan's area is during the period between 1950 and 2007, with a record of during the snowfall of January 1985.

After large incorporations and city restoration, the population grew to 522, 532 again between 1950 and 1983.

Caffè Cova, founded in 1817 and one of the city ’ s oldest cafés and confectioners, relocated to Via Monte Napoleone in 1950 from its original premisses next to the Teatro alla Scala.

After 1950, remnants of an earlier walled city were discovered near Zhengzhou.

The racial makeup of the city was 61. 41 % African American, 34. 41 % White, down from 62. 8 % in 1950, 1. 46 % Asian, 0. 19 % Native American, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 1. 45 % from other races, and 1. 04 % from two or more races.

Lagos, Nigeria has grown from 300, 000 in 1950 to an estimated 12. 5 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that the city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.

In 1950, the People's Liberation Army defeated the Tibetan army in a battle fought near the city of Chamdo.

The city had approximately 30, 000 inhabitants in 1950: by 1960 ( the year Togo gained its independence from France ) the population had reached 80, 000, increasing to 200, 000 by 1970.

The population of the city has declined significantly in the second half of the 20th century, from a high of 85, 000 in 1950, as a result of suburbanization and economic stagnation.

The population of the city of Binghamton peaked at around 85, 000 in 1950.

Freidorf ( German for " free village "; ) is a former village, since 1950 a district of the city of Timişoara, Romania.

Hrabal lived in the city from the late 1940s onward, for much of it ( 1950 – 1973 ) at 24 Na Hrázi ul.

Brașov (; ;,: ; Medieval Latin: Brassovia or Corona ; 1950 – 1960: Orașul Stalin ) is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.

From 1950 to 1960, during part of the Communist period in Romania, the city was called Orașul Stalin ( Stalin City ), after the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

The " New City " was designated by the Polish government in 1950 and deliberately located near to Katowice with the intention that it would not be a self-sustaining city.

In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton, Sr., who owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his brother.

In 1950, the first group of South Asians arrived in Southall, reputedly recruited to work in a local factory owned by a former British Indian Army officer.

His son Louis Hill later owned North Oaks Farm until death in 1950.

The Deincourt family had owned the land here since the 1170s and on the marriage of Elizabeth Deincourt to Sir William de Stirkeland in 1239, the estate passed into the hands of what became the Strickland family, who owned it until it was gifted to the National Trust in 1950.

It is unclear how long the state owned the cemetery, but Pierce Brothers bought it in 1950 and, within two years, closed the rotunda to vehicle traffic and moved the entry to the cemetery from Valhalla Drive in Burbank to Victory and Cahuenga boulevards in North Hollywood.

In 1950, Philip Loeb was blacklisted and pressure was placed on Berg ( who owned the television version as she had the radio original ) to fire him.

In 1950 Rank sold Simmons's contract to Howard Hughes, who then owned the RKO studio in Hollywood.

The Bookers had owned sugar plantations in the colony since the early 19th century ; by the end of the century owned a majority of them ; and by 1950 owned all but three.

He also owned 19 ancient Egyptian papyri that he gave to the British Museum, including the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri and the Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus .< REF NAME =" MARRY-2004 "> Marry 2004 .</ ref > He moved his collections to Dublin, Ireland, in 1950.

Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1950 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) Special Activities Division from 1950 to 1976.

After 1950, the magazine was owned by Rudolf Augstein and John Jahr ; Jahr's share merged with Richard Gruner in 1965 to form the publishing company Gruner + Jahr.

He emphasized how much of agrarian production depended on the small privately owned plots ( he was writing in 1950 ) and predicted quite accurately the rates at which the Soviet Union would start importing wheat after Russia had been such a large exporter from the 1880s to 1914.

Fernando Pereira ( May 10, 1950 – July 10, 1985 ) was a freelance Dutch photographer, of Portuguese origin, who drowned when French intelligence ( DGSE ) used two underwater mines to sink the ship Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on July 10, 1985 ( see sinking of the Rainbow Warrior ).

In August 1950 The Wangle III, owned by 1st Mortlake Sea Scouts was lost on a return voyage from France, all 10 scouts on board perished in the disaster.

: In 1950, Supreme Records, Incorporated – a small label owned by Al Patrick ( Albert T. Patrick ; 1910 – 1973 ), who was African American – lost a case in United States District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, against Decca Records, Inc., a large record label.

The couple jointly owned Desilu Productions from its inception in 1950 until their divorce in 1960, after which Ball bought Arnaz out and ran the company by herself for several years.

The company and the Micro Switch trademark has been owned by Honeywell Sensing and Control since 1950.

The villagers of Tae Sung Dong are direct descendants of people who owned the land before the 1950 – 53 Korean War.

From 1950 to 1965, the team was owned by the former Japanese National Railways ( known as Kokutetsu ( 国鉄 ) in Japanese ) and called the Kokutetsu Swallows ; the team was then owned by the newspaper Sankei Shimbun from 1965 to 1968 and called the Sankei Atoms.

By 1950, the Albrecht brothers owned 13 stores in the Ruhr Valley.