Sentence examples for accommodating a city from inspiring English sources

One of the clear lessons of the last century is that accommodating a city to the needs of the automobile is probably the surest way to devitalize that city.

Now, to accommodate a city plan to turn the island into a park, and the site into two softball fields with adjacent hills, Building 877 was to be imploded Sunday.

In 1981, he rebuilt his shop to accommodate a city street-widening project.

Because the city accommodated a new spice in the mix.

The deforestation was led by the city to accommodate a road project.

Pepco is relinquishing land through a swap with the city to accommodate a portion of the stadium footprint.

Elaborating on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's disclosure last month that city planners were drafting a strategy to cope with this expected growth, Daniel L. Doctoroff, the deputy mayor for economic development, said the city could accommodate a million additional people or more, but only if it began planning for their needs now.

Real-estate investments to keep the upper-middle classes in the city, to accommodate a growing army of international students and young service workers, to attract major corporates and financial service providers to business parks, to persuade the hypermobile cosmopolitan 'creative class' to nest locally.

Manhattan's famous grid plan turns 200 years old today and the New York Times has a great interactive map showing how closely the plan in 1811, meant to accommodate a burgeoning population, matches the city's layout of avenues and streets today.

China is expanding its cities to accommodate a growing urban population.

Cave's tour finds him spending multiple nights in most cities, to accommodate a screening of the film one evening and a concert the next.