The transfer was made partly for defensive purposes: Ravenna was surrounded by swamps and marshes, and was perceived to be easily defensible ( although in fact the city fell to opposing forces numerous times in its history ); it is also likely that the move to Ravenna was due to the city's port and good sea-borne connections to the Eastern Roman Empire.

Eight centuries of Prince-Bishop rulers, relative independence from the rest of Europe, the Austrian domination and a strong sense of communal fate left a distinctive mark on the city's culture, which is dominated by a fairly progressive Social-Catholic political orientation ( in fact, Trento is one of the few cities in Italy where left-leaning Catholics form the majority party ).

The Duke has not in fact left the city, but remains there disguised as a friar ( Lodowick ) in order to spy on the city's affairs, and especially on the actions of Angelo.

The presence of CSB, and the fact that it is all-female, have major implications for the city's demographics.

The city's slogan, " It's better in Mentor ," reflects this fact.

In fact, the impact of the glass industry was so significant that the city's name actually comes from Jeannette E. Hartupee McKee, the wife of H. Sellers McKee, a local industrialist who cofounded the Chambers and McKee Glass Works and was a member of the elite South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club of Johnstown Flood fame.

In fact, two trees that were transplanted to the front lawn of the city's civic complex in the mid 1990s are some of the only remaining examples.

The city's motto, based on the fact that outsiders tend to mispronounce the name, is " A great place, no matter how you pronounce it.

Vetinari has refused to become involved in the war with Klatch, due to the fact Ankh-Morpork does not have an army to stand against any opposing forces ( the reason given being that killing enemy soldiers makes it difficult to sell them things afterwards ), but Rust declares Martial law and orders the city's noble families to revive their old private regiments.

It is clearly visible to many inhabitants of the city's high-rises, a fact that many visitors remark upon.

The city's nickname is " Crossroads of the North ", a reference to the fact that the city is at the junction of two U. S. highways, 53 and 63, and State Highways 70 and 253.

The building formed part of the city's defenses, and was in fact a blockhouse occupied by 15 Quebec militia armed with muskets and cannons.

The excitement was generated by the fact that the city of Pontiac and its community leaders made a presentation to the Metropolitan Stadium Committee of a site on the city's east side at the intersection of M-59 and I-75.

Kōchi was selected as a target by the United States ' XXI Bomber Command because of the city's status as a prefectural capital, and the fact that it was a center for industry and commercial trade.

He ran for mayor of Saskatoon, in 2003, while still sitting as an independent MP, and again attracted controversy because his home was in fact outside of Saskatoon's city limits and not in the city's Forest Grove area as he claimed on his application.

The effects of the earthquake and damage was exacerbated by the fact that the city chiefly consisted of mud brick buildings, many of which did not comply with earthquake regulations set in Iran in 1989, and that most of the city's people were indoors and asleep.

The city's name origin comes from the fact that Saint Joseph ( São José ) is the patron saint of the city, and the Rio Preto ( Black river ) cuts the city lands.

The Free City was created in order to give Poland access to a well-sized seaport while respecting the fact that the city's population was roughly ninety-five percent German.

But in view of the fact that our city of Florence, daughter and offspring of Rome, was mounting and pursuing great purposes, while Rome was in its decline, I thought it proper to trace in this chronicle the origins of the city of Florence, so far as I have been able to recover them, and to relate the city's further development at greater length, and at the same time to give a brief account of events throughout the world as long as it please God, in the hope of whose favor I undertook the said enterprise rather than in reliance on my own poor wits.

Gay rights activists asked New York State Governor Mario Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to the case, citing the fact that Staten Island District Attorney William Murphy had been the only one of the city's five district attorneys to go on record as opposing the city's anti-gay-discrimination law when it was passed in 1986 ; and that also, in that same year, Murphy had prosecuted a carjacking case involving Taylor, Sarlo and two others that resulted in Taylor, then 16 years old, being adjudicated a juvenile offender when he could have been tried as an adult, and Sarlo receiving the minimum sentence — 1½ to 4½ years — then possible on the charges under which he had been indicted.

Riordan was succeeded in 2001 by James Hahn after being term-limited out of office ; in fact, it was Riordan who spearheaded the city's term limit ballot initiative, prior to becoming mayor.

In November 2011, a salary of £ 100k was recommended by the Mayor's remuneration committee-a rise of £ 44k based on the fact that the mayor carried out the work of the city's former chief executive who was paid £ 175k.

The city's popularity as a tourist venue is highlighted by the fact that the official summer residence of the President of Finland, the Kultaranta estate, is located on Luonnonmaa.

One social-class factor which plays a large part in educational policy today is the fact that a great many school and college teachers are upward mobile from urban lower-class and lower-middle-class families.

" Although such similarities have given rise to arguments for the existence of a standardized system of urban layout and planning, the similarities are largely due to the presence of a semi-orthogonal type of civic layout, and a comparison of the layouts of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa shows that they are in fact, arranged in a quite dissimilar fashion.

" From its earliest beginnings, Christianity spread much more quickly in major urban areas ( like Antioch, Alexandria, Carthage, Corinth, Rome ) than in the countryside ( in fact, the early church was almost entirely urban ), and soon the word for " country dweller " became synonymous with someone who was " not a Christian ," giving rise to the modern meaning of " pagan.

In fact, after 1945, urban planning became one of the methods through which capitalism could be managed and the interests of developers and corporations could be administered ( Irving 1993, 479 ).

But the generic city, the general urban condition, is happening everywhere, and just the fact that it occurs in such enormous quantities must mean that it's habitable.

According to the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, the actual de facto desegregation of U. S. public schools peaked in the late 1980s ; since that time, the schools have, in fact, become more segregated mainly due to the ethnic segregation of the nation with whites dominating the suburbs and minorities the urban centers.

As urban planning in Germany is the responsibility of city government, the integration of East and West Berlin was in part complicated by the fact that the existing planning frameworks became obsolete with the fall of the Wall.

This, together with the fact that the motors were made by Polymotor in Italy, started the urban myth that the C5 was powered by a washing machine motor.

At first, Warner Brothers did not promote Bonnie and Clyde for general release, but instead mounted only limited regional releases that seemed to confirm its misgivings about the film's lack of commercial appeal, despite the fact the film was doing excellent sustained business in select urban theatres.

Most " cities " are not, in fact, cities in the traditional sense of the word ( that is, a large urban area ) but are local government districts that have city status and often encompass large rural areas.

This gave students free rein in urban environments to break secular laws with impunity, a fact which produced many abuses: theft, rape and murder were not uncommon among students who did not face serious consequences.

In fact, in terms of its urban sprawl, medieval Angkor even approaches the size of modern Los Angeles, and is said to have been seventeen times larger than Manhattan Island.

This fact also contributes to a major difference from typical suburbs ; rather than being composed of new developments and urban sprawl, many of the structures in town are older, including a downtown area of brick storefronts.

Around the turn of the century, many huge and expensive buildings were erected and became symbols for the area's wealth ; massive chapels and a new Grammar School were built in Cleckheaton, and to mark the new urban district and the fact that it was the centre of it, Cleckheaton built a town hall in 1892, paid for by public subscription.

In fact this Ligurian influence is still visible in the urban layout as well as in the types of buildings and decorations.

Thracian civilisation was not urban and the largest Thracian cities were in fact large villages.

In fact, with feral pigeons existing in most every city in the world, they may form the majority of prey for several raptor species who live in urban areas.

If one lives in a large urban metropolis, this sort of trip might also be extended, taking a train or coach to get to a more convenient starting point, and may in fact take a lot longer than 24 hours, making it a weekend tour, but it otherwise still works on the same planning principals.

This rule targeted the ethnic-Chinese, who dominated both the rural and urban retail economy despite the fact that at this time few of them had Indonesian citizenship.

Another area of criticism comes from the fact that, since a greenbelt does not extend indefinitely outside a city, it might spur the growth of areas much further away from the city core than if it had not existed, thereby actually increasing urban sprawl.

After Green's death from lung cancer, Botham wrote the exposé story, also in the News of the World, of Green being the biological father of Jess Yates's daughter, TV presenter Paula Yates, a fact she had first learned after the tabloids printed the story ( although Green being her father had been an " urban legend " for many years ).

With a length of 13 km, including a 6 km promenade, the Marina is considered the world's second longest urban beach, although there exist in fact several longer beaches, including Praia do Cassino ( 254 km ) in Brazil, Cox's Bazar ( 120 km ) in Bangladesh, Padre Island on the U. S. Gulf Coast, Ninety Mile Beach in Australia and Ninety Mile Beach ( 88 km ) in New Zealand.

Beginning roughly in the 1960s, the wholesale privatization of public space ( especially in urban centers ) has become a fact of western society, and has faced criticism from citizen groups such as the Open Spaces Society.