Sentence examples for concrete cities from inspiring English sources

Now milk cows live increasingly in concrete cities on factory farms with hundreds and hundreds of animals.

Modern, but not in the harsh, severe way favoured in the 1960s, when most of these people cut their teeth as young new left radicals, mortified by the concrete cities taking shape around them.

Most people will surely be listening to Björk's Utopia while underground on metal trains, in concrete cities, isolated in crowds, listening through headphones – as close and as far from paradise as possible.

The ability to generate every aspect of his pictures gave rise, between 2004 and 2006, to his "Scena" (Scene) series of amazing mountain landscapes bridged by gigantic dams, and the "Veduta" (View) sequence of nightmare concrete cities stretching away into infinity.

Some of the 20th Century's best-known "concrete cities", such as Birmingham, Hull, Portsmouth and Coventry, are embarking on major regeneration work.

Green roofs come with the added benefit of mitigating the dreaded urban heat island effect, whereby, as a result of heat-absorbing materials like asphalt and concrete, cities can be several degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside.

It is a boundary between the green park and the concrete city.

But it's hard to maintain that innocence in the concrete city that never sleeps.

"I love it, it's really green in a concrete city.

For such a concrete city, Birmingham is surprisingly green in places.

"There is a real thirst to bring nature and the seasons back into the concrete city," Woodward said.