Sentence examples for functional city from inspiring English sources

Commanders predict the British will leave behind a functional city, growing in confidence because of increased security.

Are the trains a proxy for the — by rights chaotic, despite-all-odds very functional — city, or do they enable a sort of suspension?

During the morning rush hours, road conditions of other parts in the city may not change so sharply and global connectivity of whole functional city may stay stable.

New York City's official zoning book is now 4,257 pages long (warning: 83MB PDF file), the point of which is to rationalize what a beautiful, functional city should look like.

It is clear that efforts at the global scale are all aimed at upholding a self-sustaining and ecologically functional city that affects positively on the natural environment (Hutchings [2011]; Freestone [2006]).

By the mid-twentieth century, the guiding ideal was the modernist functional city, distinguished by specialized transportation systems, high-rise buildings, extensive open spaces, planned dormitory communities, and new towns.

It is concluded that Chinese edge urban areas are being transformed from mono-function development zones into new fully functional cities.

The Manchester Larger Urban Zone, a Eurostat measure of the functional city-region approximated to local government districts, has a population of 2,539,100 in 2004.

The Birmingham Larger Urban Zone, a Eurostat measure of the functional city-region approximated to local government districts, has a population of 2,357,100 in 2004.

It is Camp Bastion: a brutal, functional, military city built from nothing in the desert, from which the UK has orchestrated its conflict against the Taliban for the past six years.

Under Joel I. Klein, the former schools chancellor, the perception had grown among charter school leaders and those on the outside that as long as their test scores were middling at worst and their schools were functional, the city would not interfere.