Each of the larger burhs became the centre of a territorial district of considerable size, carved out of the neighbouring countryside in order to support the town.

There are seven districts ( with an eighth currently under construction ), each of which is divided into smaller suburbs, and most of which have a town centre which is the focus of commercial and social activities.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Aerial view of the district of Unterkochen ( the town centre is partly covered and in the background ), the Aalen lowlands well perceptible in the back

The Kocher enters the town ’ s territory from Oberkochen to the south, crosses the district of Unterkochen, then enters the town centre, where the Aal flows into it.

Aalen ’ s territory ranges over all lithostratigraphic groups of the south-German Jurassic: Aalen ’ s south and the Flexner massif are on top of the Weißer Jura ( White Jurassic ), the town centre is on the Brauner Jura ( Brown Jurassic ), and a part of Wasseralfingen is on the Schwarzer Jura ( Black Jurassic ).

They are listed clockwise, beginning south, with their respective linear distances to Aalen town centre given in brackets:

Aalen ’ s territory consists of the town centre ( Kernstadt ) and the municipalities

The town centre itself and the merged former municipalities consist of numerous villages ( Teilorte Town of Aalen ’ s website

* Forfar, the county town and administrative centre

Aegina town centre

The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.

Afyon is the centre of an agricultural area and the city has a country town feel to it.

Best eaten at the famous Ikbal restaurants ( either the old one in the town centre or the big place on the main road ).

In the town centre is St Elvan's Church, a Church in Wales church at the heart of the Parish of Aberdare.

The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.

A tourist information office run by VisitScotland sits in the centre of town, offering free information, selling souvenirs and acting as a booking office for many of the local B & B's and hotels.

The town is a former centre of the cotton and textile machinery industries.

The town centre is home to a number of high street multiples, including: Greggs, Argos, Specsavers, Wilkinson's, Shoe Zone, Superdrug, Costa Coffee, JJB Sports, Cash Generator, GAME, Poundland, Timpson, Althams Travel, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, Claire's, Grainger Games, Post Office, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Burton, Holland & Barrett, Dorothy Perkins, Blockbuster, WHSmith, H Samuel, Iceland, Phones 4U, Boots Opticians, Card Factory, Boots, Store Twenty One, Poundworld, Peacocks, B & M Bargains, Wetherspoons and a mix of other shops.

A retail park near the town centre, Eastgate Retail Park, has stores such as Home Bargains, United Carpets Woodfloor & Beds, Morrisons ( formley Netto ) and Poundstretcher.

The Hyndburn or Accrington Brook flows through the centre of the town.

The main road running through the town centre is the A680 running from Rochdale to Whalley.

One of the most important pieces of the regeneration jigsaw for the Borough is reviving Accrington town centre.

Its principal expression was prishut, the practice of a married Talmud student going into self-imposed exile from his home and family to study in the kollel of a different city or town.

The town of Bshaale, Lebanon claims to have the oldest olive trees in the world ( 4000 BC for the oldest ), but no scientific study supports these claims.

He left his native town at a young age for Baghdad to study Arabic literature and Islamic sciences at Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad.

However, Bradley, in his 1978 study of the history and archaeology of the town, stated that " neither the documentary nor the archaeological evidence indicates that there was any settlement at the town prior to the coming of the Normans ".

A study by the Environment Agency identified that the current standard of flood protection in those parts of the town was insufficient, being of a 5 – 10 year event standard ; current guidelines require protection of a 50 – 200 year standard.

Milngavie is a commuter town, with much of its working population travelling to Glasgow to work or study.

After much deliberation and prayerful study, the merged membership made the decision for a new building on a new 3. 5 acre site on the North side of town.

The study was to help create a more pedestrian-friendly and interconnected town center by encouraging walking and other modes of transportation to and around the commercial core.

Recently, the Kewanee School Board and the Wethersfield School Board conducted a feasibility study on the subject of consolidation, which would provide the town one school district.

The town appointed a 44 member citizen study committee to review the benefits and drawbacks of a change of government type.

The town in May 2010 secured Michael Sparks, a previous town consultant and writer of a revitalization feasibility study, as Director of Economic and Community Development to revitalize downtown and attract tourism.

A 2007 study of New Jersey's wealthiest communities listed Colts Neck as New Jersey's 16th wealthiest town and categorized the town's population as " top rung ", meaning: These communities are the wealthiest consumer market, representing less than 1 percent of all U. S. households.

Traditionally, every town rabbi had the right to maintain a number of full-time or part-time pupils in the town's beth midrash ( study hall, usually adjacent to the synagogue ).

This was in sharp contrast to the slums that had developed in York and other cities during the previous century, the deprivation of which had been revealed in Seebohm Rowntrees ' report of 1901, entitled Poverty: a study of town life.

When he heard that the Guide of the Perplexed was being studied in the Muslim philosophical schools of Fez, he left for that town ( in 1332 ) in order to observe their method of study.

Examples include National Issues Forums, Choices for the 21st Century, study circles, deliberative opinion polls, and the 21st-century town meetings convened by AmericaSpeaks, among others.

According to a study looking into immigration patterns, Wisbech was once identified as the seventh " most English " town in Britain by Sky News However, on 16 February 2008 a report in the Daily Express titled " Death Of A Country Idyll " wrote about how the influx of Eastern European immigrants may have caused the increase of crime and other illegal activities.

Constant study then began to tell on his health, and in 1682, leaving his already numerous pupils, he opened a practice in Minden at the request of a relative who held a high position in that town.

Under the guise of a " study trip ", a group of students from in the fictional town of Shiroiwa, in Kagawa Prefecture, are gassed on a bus.

All his relations were Dissenters, and, after attending the Royal Free Grammar School of Newcastle, and a dissenting academy in the town, he was sent in 1739 to Edinburgh to study theology with a view to becoming a minister, his expenses being paid from a special fund set aside by the dissenting community for the education of their pastors.

A national commission formed to study causes of the 1894 strike found Pullman's paternalism partly to blame and Pullman's company town to be " un-American ".

His father, who was burgomaster of the town, intended him to study theology, but Friedrich preferred classical philology, which he studied from 1802 to 1806 at the University of Copenhagen, University of Halle, and then again at Copenhagen.