However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was reoriented to focus on socialist countries, and the city's global influence declined.

The traditionally affordable and practical, yet stylish and chic attire produced by the city's stylists made it a serious global competitor, threatening Paris ' century-long status as the world capital of haute couture.

Among the reasons the town was chosen were its small population size and thus its likelihood to accept such an offer, and the city's global geographic location, which fit perfectly into Half. com's marketing scheme.

The event's iconic status offers Calgary global publicity and plays a significant role in defining the city's image.

Replenished housing stock might be an improvement in quality ; it may increase density and reduce sprawl ; it might have economic benefits and improve the global economic competitiveness of a city's centre.

Covering the city block bounded by Lonsdale, Little Lonsdale, Swanston, and Russell Streets, and located directly opposite the State Library of Victoria and Melbourne Central, QV comprises a large shopping centre, a central plaza, an underground food court, Melbourne central city's first full-size supermarket, apartment buildings, and the global headquarters of BHP Billiton.

Especially in Ulsan, where heavy industries make up most of the city's revenue, Hyundai Auto and other automobile companies are slowly taking leading positions in the global society.

Over the course of the decade, the city's image transformed from being one of a bygone, decaying metropolis to one of the world's preeminent " global cities.

A strong demand for new residential and commercial areas drove to extreme urban expansion and architectural renewal, that has produced some of the major milestones in the city's architectural history, including Gio Ponti's Pirelli Tower ( 1956 – 60 ), Velasca Tower ( 1956 – 58 ), and the creation of brand new residential satellite towns, as well as huge amounts of low quality public housings.

The urban renewal process, which includes the reconstruction of the area around the Neumarkt square on which the Frauenkirche is situated, will continue for many decades, but public and government interest remains high, and there are numerous large projects underway — both historic reconstructions and modern plans — that will continue the city's recent architectural renaissance.

The city's architectural and historic interest, and its fast links to other towns and cities have led Winchester to become one of the most expensive and desirable areas of the country.

The old city's architectural character is strongly influenced by the Venetian style, coming as it did under Venetian rule for a long period ; its small and ancient sidestreets, and the old buildings ' trademark arches are particularly reminiscent of Venice.

During a trip to Venice in 1880, Whistler created a series of etchings and pastels that not only reinvigorated his finances, but also re-energized the way in which artists and photographers interpreted the city — focusing on the back alleys, side canals, entrance ways, and architectural patterns — and capturing the city's unique atmospherics.

With the protection of a Historic District Commission, much of the city's irreplaceable architectural legacy survives.

There are no special effects or elaborate sets ; instead, the film was shot in real locations in Paris, the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings ( in 1965 they were new and strange architectural designs ) represent the city's interiors.

The city's Catholic and Orthodox churches are important architectural treasures.

The architectural salvage, its eventual sale for £ 800, 000 and move to Tallinn awaiting reconstruction as the centrepiece of the city's commercial sector can be seen in the Baltic Exchange listing.

Pennsylvania Station's demolition is considered to have been the catalyst for the enactment of the city's first architectural preservation statutes.

The astonishing feature of the city's architectural development was a characteristic synthesis of two modernist urban utopian visions: the first inspired by Ebenezer Howard's Garden city movement and the second tracing its lineage to Le Corbusier's vision of urban modernity.

He and Schütte-Lihotzky, together with the rest of May's assembled architectural staff, successfully brought functional clarity and humanitarian values to thousands of the city's housing units.

The border regions faced direct attacks from forces within Serbia and Montenegro, and saw the shelling of UNESCO world heritage site Dubrovnik, where the international press was criticised for focusing on the city's architectural heritage, instead of reporting the destruction of Vukovar, a pivotal battle involving many civilian deaths.

As a part of the 2006 European Capital of Culture programmme, there was a project for the restoration of the city's architectural heritage.

The Dumaguete Belfry is the city's most popular architectural landmark.

The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation ( MTDC ) operates open – air tourist buses to give an aerial view of the iconic fountain and the city's unique distinctive historical, aesthetic and architectural identity depicted in the largest representations of the grand neo – Gothic style of architecture and also numerous ones of Indo-Saracenic architecture.

This essentially preserved the city's architectural traits, which has been key to San Juan's current status as a tourist destination.

São Paulo Museum of Art, one of the city's most controversial architectural landmarks.

The hill became a popular spot for the city's early economic and cultural elite to build their mansions, and the name derives from the architectural style typical of many of the early homes.

In 1998, the building's exterior was designated an architectural landmark by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission.

It was designed to rival the Salt Lake Temple as the city's architectural centerpiece.

Famous tourist attractions include the ancient castle, and the numerous architectural attractions in the city's center, including the cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Holy Trinity Church, the city hall building, and the numerous fortifications.

Also in recent years, a major program of restoration of the city's architectural heritage has enhanced local tourism.

Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas ; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis ; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid.

Previous to the war, the city's civilian population was about 300, 000, but before it was over, most of the populace had sought refuge elsewhere in Iran.

In 1972 police in Chicago arrested two college students, Allen Schwander and Stephen Pera, who had planned to poison the city's water supply with typhoid and other bacteria.

Harvard University had always been important in the city ( both as a landowner and as an institution ), but it began to play a more dominant role in the city's life and culture.

As late as the 19th century, a similar situation developed at Antwerp, where a Dutch garrison under General David Hendrik Chassé held out in the city's citadel between 1830 and 1832, while the city itself had already become part of the independent Belgium.

In the 19th century, when the political climate had liberalised enough to permit it, the people of Barcelona had the citadel torn down, and replaced it with the city's main central park, the Parc de la Ciutadella.

Thus, Cyril followed his uncle in a position that had become powerful and influential, rivalling that of the prefect in a time of turmoil and frequently violent conflict between the cosmopolitan city's Pagan, Jewish, and Christian inhabitants.

The increased demand for limited college slots had the effect in New York City of increasing the competitiveness of the city's system of higher education.

The city had a population of 21, 000 in 1640 before a plague in 1649 – 51 wiped out almost half of the city's inhabitants.

Gentile government was strengthened by the city's refoundation under Herod the Great ( r. 37 – 4 BC ), when it had taken on the name of Augustus Caesar.

During the political opening after the military regime, the people elected the city's first woman mayor, Maria Luíza Fontenele, and had the first city hall commanded by a left-wing party.

He had earned the enmity of some of the city's leading scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences.

He established a good working relationship with the British military authorities, using them to neutralize the workers ' and soldiers ' council that had become an alternative base of power for the city's left wing.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

The Liverpool badge is based on the city's liver bird, which in the past had been placed inside a shield.

As a result of NHC's forecasts there had been a massive evacuation of New Orleans amid warnings ( for example from the city's mayor, Ray Nagin ) that this would be the “ storm of the century ”, potentially more devastating than Katrina almost exactly three years earlier, but these fears were not realised.

Since 1974 the Kockums Crane had been a landmark in Malmö and a symbol of the city's manufacturing industry, but in 2002 it was disassembled and moved to South Korea.

Standing alongside the Weinhaus Rheingold's Potsdamer Straße entrance, this five-storey steel-framed edifice had been erected as an office building in 1907-8 by architect and one-time Berlin inspector of buildings Otto Stahn ( 1859 – 1930 ), who was also responsible for the city's Oberbaumbrücke over the River Spree.

However, when they learned that their compatriots had given up the fight, they lost confidence ; the end result was that they concluded a peace pact that greatly restricted the city's powers and burdened the city with serious penalties and reparations payments.

Gen. Grant, who had just arrived at his headquarters in City Point, narrowly escaped certain death when Confederate spies blew up an ammunition barge moored below the city's bluffs.

Napoleon was seen as something of a liberator by the city's Jewish population, although it can be argued they had lived with fewer restrictions in Venice.

Another estimate was that in 2007, the financial services industry which had a $ 70 billion profit became 22 percent of the city's revenue.

Since New York's financial industry provides almost one-fourth of all income produced in the city, and accounts for 10 % of the city's tax revenues and 20 % of the state's, the downturn has had huge repercussions for government treasuries.