While the historic, defensive city gate may be lost with time (with the exception of "gated community" residential enclaves, security-based, but often seen as inequitable), monumental structures such as epic skyscrapers or reinvented natural features are still oriented around invitation and the prestige of arrival.
And I suppose I say that because I'm very sceptical about the modern, gated, defensive definition of family.
Indeed, with the rise of the Republic of Venice Serenissima, stone construction was given a substantial boost, and trachyte was largely employed in public buildings, churches, monasteries, monumental gates, defensive walls and private residences, as well as for paving squares and streets; the most striking examples can be admired in Padua and Venice ([32, 33] and references therein).
Just behind the Greyfriars turret is the islet of Helgeandsholmen, where the northern city gate and defensive wall were located.
A defensive barbican, or outer gate, was added in the early 14th century, and was destroyed in the 1528 siege, although fragments can still be seen.
The gate lacks defensive structures like murder-holes and is more decorated than the northern gate, which must be related to the fact that the gate faces the city.
He ordered the construction of new city walls, gates and defensive trenches, as well as a rosewood palace called Mahandrihono, which he had built in the traditional style.
He declared Ambohimanga the capital of the region, building numerous structures on the site and adding its first set of defensive walls, ditches and gates.
Several gates and 27 defensive towers are intact.
Of course, a de-emphasis on offensive tackles would open the gates for the defensive players who came in waves in this draft, intent on disrupting the finely tuned offenses that shattered records last season.
