On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension: the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.

This is our duty -- not as nurses or city employes -- but as citizens of the United States.

It is visible throughout the city, and men from Madison Ave. would jump at the chance.

If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.

Or the city can be a graveyard monument to Western intransigence, if that is what the West wants.

The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Warsaw is my city, not Tel Aviv ''.

It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.

The problem for the city apartment dweller is primarily to plan the use of existing space.

One of the most delightful spots in a southern tour is the city of New Orleans.

Just after sunset is a good time to record the city lights in color since you get a `` fill-in '' light from the sky.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

Ephrem celebrated what he saw as the miraculous salvation of the city in a hymn which portrayed Nisibis as being like Noah's Ark, floating to safety on the flood.

Films such as Sergeant York or the Ma and Pa Kettle series portrayed the hillbilly as wild but good-natured, and television programs of the 1960s, such as The Real McCoys, The Andy Griffith Show, and especially The Beverly Hillbillies portrayed the hillbilly as somewhat backward but with a wisdom that always outwitted more sophisticated city folk.

It was a propaganda film about this new industrial city which was mainly built by forced labourers, who however were portrayed by Ivens as communist volunteers.

In ancient China, sieges of city walls ( along with naval battles ) were portrayed on bronze ' hu ' vessels, like those found in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1965 which have been dated to the Warring States Period ( 5th century BC to 3rd century BC ).

* January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam ' n ' Henry, in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city.

Chicago was portrayed as a lively city where blacks commonly went to the theaters, ate out at fancy restaurants, attended sports events, including " cheering for the American Black Giants, black America ’ s favorite baseball team ", and could dance all night in the hottest night clubs.

Shadow of a Doubt was both filmed and set in Santa Rosa, California, which was portrayed as a paragon of a supposedly peaceful, small, pre-War American city.

Terre Haute is often portrayed negatively in the media, such as a 2003 Indianapolis Star article that called the city a " model of stagnation ," citing high unemployment rates, low retention rate of graduating students, odor from the town's industries, and general lack of culture.

The movie angered many residents of the city and surrounding areas who felt the documentary portrayed Vernon in a negative light.

When the Chickamauga Dam was completed on the Tennessee River by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1940, much of the city was flooded, as portrayed in the 1960 movie Wild River.

The city of Big Lake was featured in the 2002 movie The Rookie, although the town portrayed in the movie was actually Thorndale, Texas, which is actually a little bit east of Austin.

' " On February 3 Christina Smith, the city censor of Atlanta, argued that because of " the sordid life it portrayed, the treatment of illicit love, the failure of the characters to receive orthodox punishment from the police, and because the picture would tend to weaken a respect for the law ," Scarlet Street was " licentious, profane, obscure and contrary to the good order of the community.

As with most other landmarks in the film, the city is portrayed as relatively isolated ( the Rammas, the Pelennor, the River Anduin and Gondor's abundant populace are virtually not featured ); the absence of these features is mentioned on the original DVD commentary.

Also added as regulars were their grumpy neighbor Mr. Bickley ( who was seen occasionally in the first season and ironically worked as a verse writer for a greeting-card company ) portrayed by Tom Poston, and Nelson Flavor ( Jim Staahl ), Mindy's snooty cousin who ran for city council.

Romulus and Remus regained their grandfather's throne and set out to build a new city, consulting with the gods through augury, a characteristic religious institution of Rome that is portrayed as existing from earliest times.

The movie about the life and times of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city Supervisor who was America's first openly gay elected official ( portrayed by actor Sean Penn, who won an Academy Award for his performance ), had its world premiere at the theater in November 2008.

Commorragh has always been portrayed as a colossal city within the Webway, and in November 2010 it was described to be in actuality an amalgamation of several cities and realms located within the Webway, having started as a single port but since Vect's overthrow of the old houses had grown to amalgamate these new territories such as Shaa-dom and Iron Thorn.

In some episodes ( such as " Walk in the Dark ") the city was portrayed as particularly crime-ridden, with the danger of muggings and bodily harm at every turn.

Marbella was portrayed as an extremely affluent city with most cars at the entrance of the palace being very expensive.

The indiscriminate Ottoman artillery fire, which did much damage to Mecca, turned out to be a potent propaganda weapon for the Hashemites, who portrayed the Ottomans as desecrating Islam's most holy city.

MTA New York City Transit ( the city transit authority ) first refused the production companies the right to film at any of its yards because it believed the film portrayed the agency in a bad light.

IGN rated the game's appearance highly, noting that overall " the downtown portion of Chicago is portrayed very accurately ", though generic-looking portions of the city were criticized.

Accordingly, colonial American Freemasons are portrayed as having embraced Bavarian Illuminism and used the power of the occult to bind their planning of a government in conformity with the plan of the " Masonic God " because of their belief that the " Great Architect of the Universe " has tasked the United States with the eventual establishment of the " Kingdom of God on Earth " — a Masonic world government with New Jerusalem as its capital city and the Third Temple as its holiest site — the initially utopian New World Order presided over by a Masonic Messiah.