Large swaths of the city's residential areas away from the lake are characterized by brick bungalows built from the early 20th century through the end of World War II.

In 1998, he designed the new bus station for Vimercate ( near Milan ), a red brick building linked to many facilities, underlining the city's recent development.

Later that same decade, many of the city's brick sidewalks were converted to concrete ; the bronze plaques of the concrete installers are still visible today.

Since 2009, the city's downtown has been the center of an extensive renovation and remodeling featuring a refacing or rebuilding of many buildings on Grand River Avenue, as well as brick paver sidewalks, the Farmington Pavilion, new lighting, and landscaping.

The city's two-block business district consists of the original brick buildings built in the 1880s and 1890s.

By 1900, the lumber industry had declined, and the city's economic base rested on other industries, including a furniture factory, a paper mill, a fire brick plant, and a silk mill.

In Tōkyō, Waters designed the Commercial Museum, thought to have been the city's first brick building.

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.

Known as San Pedro Heights during the 17th century, the area was mostly home to the city's growing contingent of dockworkers and brickmakers ; indeed, the area became Buenos Aires ' first " industrial " area, home to its first windmill and most of the early city's brick kilns and warehouses.

The old Plaza area became a forgotten remnant of the city's roots, and the remaining adobe and brick buildings within the Plaza area fell into disrepair as the civic center of the city shifted to present-day Temple and Main Streets.

The imposing edifice is built of brick, and is one of the city's three notable churches built in the Italian Gothic style.

Pieces of vitrified brick scattered over the surface of the large mound bore witness to the city's destruction by fire.

Hovering over the broad brick plaza, the City Hall was designed to create an open and accessible place for the city's government, with the most heavily used public activities all located on the lower levels directly connected to the plaza.

The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum opened in 1982 in the city's historic brick firehouse with 25 exhibits on two floors, one staff person and ten volunteers.

The site was abandoned soon after the city's massive walls were constructed, its temple rebuilt and its grain production reorganised.

With the coming of the Mamluks in 1250, the city's walls were demolished, and were subsequently rebuilt during the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

Constantius captured Amida and initiated a major refortification the city, enhancing the city's circuit walls and constructing large towers.

Huge Glasgow School murals decorate the walls, depicting the granting of the city's charter, its history and culture, and the four main Scottish rivers.

An amphitheatre built in the third century AD is still visible, but the thermae were demolished during the crisis of the third century to build the city's walls, which remain some of the most complete circuit of Gallo-Roman city walling that survives.

The Minotaur is also the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante come across within the walls of Dis ( the fallen angels, Erinyes, and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX ).

As Cuzco grew, Sacsayhuaman's walls were partially dismantled, the site becoming a convenient source of construction materials for the city's newer inhabitants.

Battering rams and siege hooks could also be used to force through gates or walls, while catapults, ballistae, trebuchets, mangonels, and onagers could be used to launch projectiles in order to break down a city's fortifications and kill its defenders.

* October 26 – An earthquake strikes Constantinople and the surrounding countryside, causing destruction to the city's land walls and buildings, and many deaths.

Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.

There are some vestiges of the Alans in Portugal, namely in Alenquer ( whose name may be Germanic for the Temple of the Alans, from " Alan Kerk ", and whose castle may have been established by them ; the Alaunt is still represented in that city's coat of arms ), in the construction of the castles of Torres Vedras and Almourol, and in the city walls of Lisbon, where vestiges of their presence may be found under the foundations of the Church of Santa Luzia.

Unfortunately for the future of Leptis Magna, Gaiseric ordered the city's walls demolished so as to dissuade its people from rebelling against Vandal rule.

He began the construction of the Bastille in order to protect the city and ordered the construction of new walls, increasing the city's size.

He employs the city's demoi (" Circus factions ") in the work and rebuilt the walls within 60 days.

While flooding has been common with Binghamton sitting at the confluence of two rivers, a major flood was able to overcome the city's flood walls and wreak havoc in June 2006, causing millions of dollars in damage.

In 1915, the Army allowed the destruction of the walls and abolished the building ban in the city's surroundings.

They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, because they constructed the city's walls.

The Geneva militia's successful defense of the city's walls is celebrated to the present day as an act of heroism with the annual festival of L ' Escalade.

The Prussians introduced religious toleration, leading to the construction of the Protestant parish church Zum Garten Christ from 1746 – 47 ; Catholic Poles were later discriminated against, however. The city's textile industry was booming by the end of the 18th century, and by 1800 large parts of the city walls had been dismantled to allow the city to expand.

Tivoli however managed to keep a level of independence until the 15th century: symbols of the city's strength were the Palace of Arengo, the Torre del Comune and the church of St. Michael, all built in this period, as well as the new line of walls ( authorized in 1155 ), needed to house the increasing population.

Piraeus would follow the fate of Athens and was to bear the brunt of the Spartans ' rage, as the city's walls and the Long Walls were torn down, the Athenian fleet surrendered to the winners and some of the triremes burnt, while the neosoikoi were also pulled down.

With internal dissent increasing, they joined these new fortifications to existing walls to form a redoubt defensible against attacks from land or sea, which contained a large warehouse into which the extremists moved most of the city's corn supply.

Between 1582 and 1601 the city's defense walls were renewed and expanded to include the shipyards as well.

When Jazco of Salzwedel from Gützkow founded a Franciscan friary within the walls of Greifswald, the Cistercians at Eldena lost much of their influence on the city's further development.

Attila's men had made a breach in the city's walls and had positioned a party within the city.

While the factories were always the center of the labor market, they were often on the city's periphery.

She was not alone for there were three other such children in the big city's special nursery.

Grain was cleaned, and rations of grain and oil were distributed in standardized vessels made by the city's potters.

All the city's fortifications were destroyed, aside from the citadel, which was left as residence of the governor and a garrison for the emiral troops.

Traveling in the same social circles, the two men engaged in a 20-year mutual vendetta, as described by the Daily News in 1998: " They crossed paths often, in the midtown watering holes and at National Cartoonists Society banquets, and the city's gossip columns were full of their snarling public donnybrooks.

After Kristallnacht in 1938, thousands of the city's Jews were imprisoned in the nearby Sachsenhausen concentration camp or, in early 1943, were shipped to death camps, such as Auschwitz.

In addition, owing to the city's legal status, citizens of West Berlin were unable to vote in elections to the Bundestag, and were instead represented by 20 non-voting delegates, indirectly elected by the city's House of Representatives.

The White Stockings finished the season in second place, but ultimately were forced to drop out of the league during the city's recovery period, finally returning to National Association play in 1874.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

Consuls were responsible for the city's political agenda, commanded large-scale armies and controlled important provinces.

Germans, Irish, Poles, Swedes and Czechs made up nearly two-thirds of the foreign-born population ( by 1900, whites were 98. 1 % of the city's population ).

Chicago's streets were laid out in a street grid that grew from the city's original townsite plat.

Around 1388, the city's fortifications were strengthened further.

Most of the city's heritage was destroyed during the construction of basements in the 19th century or during World War II, but the backyards and latrines of the houses were not changed and provide information on the city's history.

The shogunate's official rice-storage warehouses, other official buildings and some of the city's best-known restaurants were located here.

The city's great financiers, however, were less important in decision making than policy makers in Washington, and very high wartime taxes were not offset by heavy war spending.