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It was the Bauhaus contemporaries Bruno Taut, Hans Poelzig and particularly Ernst May, as the city architects of Berlin, Dresden and Frankfurt respectively, who are rightfully credited with the thousands of socially progressive housing units built in Weimar Germany.
* 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
Unlike its neighbouring city of Dresden this was largely conventional bombing, with high explosives rather than incendiaries.
Architects who were renowned for their constructions using the style include Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, an Italian architect who worked in Russia and who was noted for his lavish and opulent works, Philip de Lange, who worked in both Danish and Dutch Rococo architecture, or Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, who worked in the late Baroque style and who contributed to the reconstruction of the city of Dresden, in Germany.
Dresden (; ) is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.
Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendour.
Although Dresden is a relatively recent city of Slavic origin, the area had been settled in the Neolithic era by Linear Pottery culture tribes ca.
Dresden, 1945, view from the city hall ( Rathaus ) over the destroyed city ( the allegory of goodness in the foreground )
Dresden, 1945 — over ninety percent of the city centre was destroyed.
The inner city of Dresden was largely destroyed by 722 RAF and 527 USAAF bombers that dropped 2431 tons of high explosive bombs, and 1475. 9 tons of incendiaries.
The bombing raid on Dresden destroyed almost all of the ancient centre of the city in three waves of attacks.
Dresden is one of the greenest cities in all of Europe, with 63 % of the city being green areas and forests.
Dresden is a spacious city.
The population of Dresden reached 100, 000 inhabitants in 1852, making it the third German city to reach that number.
The population of the city of Dresden is 523, 058 ( 2010 ), the population of the Dresden agglomeration is 780, 561 ( 2008 ), and the population of Region Dresden ( which includes the neighbouring districts of Meißen, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge and the western part of the district of Bautzen ) is 1, 143, 197 ( 2007 ).
Plan of the city of Dresden in 1750 with the fortifications by the Zwinger by Lynar ( left half of the picture, north is to the right )
After the war, in a referendum, the people of Dresden voted to restore the building and generally preferred to rebuild the glories of the city, instead of having the ruins razed to make way for the architecture of socialist realism then prevalent in the German Democratic Republic.
* Dresden receives city rights.
Four years before, in 1685, the old city of Dresden was destroyed by a fire ; later, Wolf Caspar of Klengel and Balthasar Permoser were entrusted by the Duke with the reconstruction of the city in the baroque style which was the new fashion at the time.
Some examples include the Allies ' destruction of civilian Axis targets during World War II, such as the firebombing of the German city of Dresden and the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; and the mass killing of Biharies by Kader Siddique and Mukti Bahini before or after victory of Bangladesh Liberation War in Bangladesh between 1971 and 1972.

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I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
Grigorss overcomes the suitor in battle, delivers the city from its oppressors and marries Sibylla who had fallen in love with the beautiful knight the moment she saw him.
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
In 1687 the Turks, who had been in control of the city since the fifteenth century, with a truly shattering lack of prudence used the Parthenon as a powder magazine.
It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.
New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.
The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.
We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.
For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.
The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.
He had on his gray tweed overcoat and his city hat, and his brief case lay on the bench.
But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.
It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.
Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.
Davis commenced his remarks by an allusion to the general feeling of opposition which the meeting had encountered from many of the citizens and all the newspapers of the city.
And they also had the lights of the city, the port wall lanterns, and a shore crane's spotlight to guide on.
One vocational instructor in a city vocational school, speaking of his course in a certain field, said he had no difficulty placing all students in jobs outside of the city.
Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.
When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.
City Controller Alexander Hemphill charged Tuesday that the bids on the Frankford Elevated repair project were rigged to the advantage of a private contracting company which had `` an inside track '' with the city.

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Italy has always had a distinctive dialect for each city, since the cities, until recently, were thought of as city-states.
# Some city dwellers, especially the less affluent population, had their own distinctive dialects — for example the Warsaw dialect, still spoken by some of the population of Praga on the eastern bank of the Vistula.
Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits — often as many as thirty two, like a deck in the Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, between the 18th and 19th century.
This castle has a commanding view of the historic city centre with its distinctive green-domed churches and intricate architecture.
The Sydney Opera House, as well as quickly becoming a distinctive cultural landmark in that city, gave the company a permanent performance home and thus helped to expand its repertoire and develop local audiences.
In the 13th century, the city of Monza had a distinctive symbol in the Arengario.
What is today called Olmec first appeared fully within the city of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, where distinctive Olmec features occurred around 1400 BCE.
The city developed a distinctive sculptural style within the tradition of the lowland Maya, perhaps to emphasize the Maya ethnicity of the city's rulers.
This gives Tehama a distinctive appearance, since by city ordinance, houses must be raised above flood level, so most homes have high foundations and tall stairways to the front door.
Perimeter Center, which is the biggest edge city in the Atlanta area, includes many high-rise buildings, including the Concourse Towers, which are often identified locally as the " king and queen " towers because of their distinctive architecture.
A number of homes in the city still display these distinctive roofs.
The city's most distinctive landmark, which is used on the official city seal, is the Verona columns and reflecting pool at the intersection of Ensley Lane, Mission Drive and Overhill Road.
His most famous design, and a distinctive building in the city centre, is the so-called Glaspaleis ( Glass Palace ), listed as one of the world's thousand most architecturally important buildings of the 20th century.
Greyfriars had one of the most distinctive buildings in Oxford ; it is the only flint-stone Norman-style building in the city, and its green spire is notably visible along the Iffley Road and from the University's Roger Bannister running track.
The completed church gave the city of Dresden a distinctive silhouette, captured in famous paintings by Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of the artist Canaletto ( also known by the same name ), and in Dresden by Moonlight by Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl.
In works like The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog, Bellow painted vivid portraits of the American city and the distinctive characters that peopled it.
Henri Pirenne's reputation today rests on three contributions to European history: for what has become known as the Pirenne Thesis, concerning origins of the Middle Ages in reactive state formation and shifts in trade ; for a distinctive view of Belgium's medieval history ; and for his model of the development of the medieval city.
At that time, the Haçienda nightclub was a major catalyst for the distinctive musical ethos in the city that was called the Second Summer of Love.
The building itself, with its clerestory windows and small mezzanine balcony, also qualified as a city landmark because of its " distinctive characteristics typical of small commercial buildings constructed following the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Aravot argues that “ conventional analysis and problem solving methods result in fragmentation … of the authentic experience of a city … something of the liveliness of the city as a singular entity is lost .” The process of developing a narrative-myth in urban design involves analysing and understanding the unique aspects of the local culture based on Cassirer ’ s five distinctive “ symbolic forms ”.
Moses would remain Park Commissioner for the next twenty-six years, leaving distinctive and controversial marks on all the city parks.
Two distinctive new pottery shapes that first appear in this period suggest that new leadership was imposed on the city ; these newcomers may also have been responsible for the destruction of the Urban A / EBI settlement.
The city is well known for its distinctive ramen.

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