Downtown is the center of Chicago's financial, cultural, and commercial institutions and home to Grant Park and many of the city's skyscrapers.

Other live-music genre which are part of the city's cultural heritage include Chicago blues, Chicago soul, jazz, and gospel.

In 1944, one of the city's most enduring cultural hubs was inaugurated, Malmö Stadsteater ( Malmö Municipal Theatre ) with a repertory embracing both stage theatre, opera, musical, ballet, musical recitals and theatrical experiments.

Much of the city's cultural life has revolved around its large university community.

Major investments in renovation of the city's monuments, building new hotels ( including high-standard ones ), improvement in promotion, as well as launching new cultural and scientific events and facilities, give very good prospects for Toruń's tourism.

Dresden remains a major cultural centre of historical memory, owing to the city's destruction in World War II.

Today the legacy of the city's early European immigrant populations is evident in many social and cultural institutions in Downtown and South Omaha.

The city's historical and cultural attractions have been lauded by numerous national newspapers, including the Boston Globe and The New York Times.

The city's cultural centre organises a number of regular events, most notably the Medieval Market in July each year.

The city's main theatre and cultural venue is the Courtyard Centre for the Arts which was opened in 1998, replacing the New Hereford Theatre.

The city's most important cultural loss was that of the Romanesque church of Obermünster, which was destroyed in a March 1945 air raid and was never rebuilt ( the belfry survived ).

The status of the Black Sea Fleet has a strong influence over the city's business and cultural life.

Before being occupied by Romanian troops in 1941, a part of the city's population, industry, infrastructure and all cultural valuables possible were evacuated to inner regions of the USSR, and the retreating Red Army units destroyed as much as they could of Odessa harbour facilities left behind.

The city's cultural contributions in the first half of the 20th century included, amongst many, the Vienna Secession movement, psychoanalysis, the Second Viennese School, the architecture of Adolf Loos and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle.

In the early 19th century, many Russian artists, officers and nobles were sent into exile in Siberia for their part in the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. Irkutsk became the major center of intellectual and social life for these exiles, and much of the city's cultural heritage comes from them ; many of their wooden houses, adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations, survive today, in stark contrast with the standard Soviet apartment blocks that surround them.

Brazilian architecture and foods are important to the city's cultural life.

The industry is a key component of the city's economic make-up with more than 10 % of all Berlin residents employed in cultural sectors.

The resulting conflict made at least two points of view available to the public and served as the impetus for some improvements to the city's infrastructure and cultural life.

NJPAC is involved in the construction of One Theater Square, a mixed-use skyscraper in the heart of the cultural district that is planned to include the city's tallest building.

Terrasa has a local newspaper, the Diari de Terrassa, that is published daily from Tuesday to Saturday, as well as several radio stations: Ràdio Terrassa / Cadena SER Vallès on 828 AM and 89. 4 FM, with more than 75 years of history behind it, being one of the pioneering radio stations in Catalonia and Spain ; the municipal radio ( Noucincpuntdos, 95. 2 FM ); and Radio Star de Terrassa, the city's cultural station, on 100. 5 FM, which was founded in 1984 and is one of the historic local radios of Catalonia.

He immersed himself in the city's literary and cultural life, studying art, visiting the National Gallery, attending the theatre, and writing prose and poetry.

Among the city's cultural attractions is the Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Black Veteran Archives.

They were interested in learning about the Swedish city's economic development efforts, cultural facilities, innovations in education and ability to attract visitors and businesses to the area.

The city's geographical riverside location, and noted cultural and historical heritage — particularly the baroque Tvrđa, one of the most immediately recognizable structures in the region — facilitated the development of tourism.

Many of the city's financial institutions ( for example, CBOT, Chicago Fed ) are located within a section of downtown called " The Loop ", which is an eight-block by five-block square of city streets that are encircled by elevated rail tracks.

In line with the city's history as an important convention center and the current presence of institutions such as the ICJ, The Hague's city council employs a city branding strategy that aims to establish The Hague as the Legal Capital of the World and the International City of Peace and Justice.

Following the Iranian revolution in 1979, the city's municipality and other related institutions initiated important restoration and reconstruction projects.

Religious institutions reflect the city's heritage.

The city's political institutions and the university were all handed over to the Huguenots.

It destroys all of an inner city's major social structures, and acts as the straw that broke the camel's back for the social institutions of ghettos, whose positions are already precarious.

Thomas M. Messer succeeded Sweeney as director of the museum ( but not the foundation ) in 1961 and stayed for 27 years, the longest tenure of any of the city's major arts institutions ' directors.

And Bexley's other institutions of higher education, although sectarian in religious affiliation, have likely contributed to the city's increasingly progressive reputation.

The city's large African American population and the presence of black institutions of higher learning made Marshall a center of the civil rights movement in the American South.

During the 16th century the city's political influence decreased dramatically, due to many governmental institutions being moved to Brussels.

For much of his Canadian career he lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was instrumental in shaping that port's military defences for protecting the important Royal Navy base, as well as influencing the city's and colony's socio-political and economic institutions.

With the rising prominence of its graduates, this was also the period in which Boston College and its powerful Alumni Association began to establish themselves among the city's leading institutions.

The province of Azua de Compostela, Dominican Republic, honored him by naming one of the capital city's secondary education institutions after him: Liceo de Estudios Secundarios Román Baldorioty de Castro.

The city's well-known cultural institutions include the Formosa Regional Historical Museum ( image, above ), the Juan Pablo Duffard Historical Museum ( a National Historic Monument ), the Qomp Toba Artisanal Museum, and the Oscar Albertazzi Arts Institute.

The city has used many descriptions in advertising and promotion, including " Rose City " ( referring to its international rose trial grounds ) and " Knowledge City " or " Student City " ( referring to the city's many academic institutions ).

These institutions ’ close association with Mexico City also ensured this city's dominance in the political territory of New Spain, providing the links that kept the vast and expanding empire together.

Planning, development and municipal functions were increasingly dictated by national policy and legislation ; council finances came to be dominated by central government subsidies ; and institutions such as gas, water and transport were taken out of the city's control.

The Financial District of New York City ( sometimes called FiDi ) is a neighborhood on the southernmost section of the borough of Manhattan which comprises the offices and headquarters of many of the city's major financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

* 1984: Kenneth Cooper, Joan Fitz Gerald, Jonathan Kaufman, Norman Lockman, Gary McMillan, Kirk Scharfenberg and David Wessel, Boston Globe, " for their series examining race relations in Boston, a notable exercise in public service that turned a searching gaze on some the city's most honored institutions including the Globe itself.

The growing political and economic power of the city's gay community conflicted with the established but dwindling numbers of the conservative institutions, such as the police and fire departments.

Two of the city's institutions, the Library Company and the American Philosophical Society, were centers of enlightened thought and scientific inquiry.

The city's cathedral was home to the Crown of the Andes, a 16th century Marianist devotional object featuring emeralds taken from the captured Inca Emperor Atahualpa before its sale to finance local health care institutions.