In fact, there are many lessons to be learned from Alex's farm that can be applied to our towns and cities: building durable, well-insulated buildings with simple, redundant systems out of easy-to-fix local, renewable materials in strong, caring communities makes sense just about anywhere.
Built of the cold, durable materials of the city — concrete, granite, hard-surfaced brick — the complex was connected by elevated pedestrian expressways.
Yet this enactment is ephemeral; without continuous repetition over the long term, it does not lead to durable transformations of the city as a civic space or to stable employment for themselves as civic actors.
Kitchen Club opened in 1990, before anyone thought of the neighborhood as NoLIta, and has been one of the city's more durable Japanese-European fusion restaurants.
But before anybody invests in more durable or attractive seats, the city's traffic experts want to make sure the idea works.
The windowpane oyster sports a shell so transparent and durable that some Indian and Philippine cities use the coverings as an affordable alternative to window glass.
He had left perhaps nothing durable, except the change of the city's name to Mumbai from Bombay.
Britain is still looking for a durable political economy beyond just the City and the seductive booty of financial services.
"I have seen the great cities, including those noted for their durable construction.
