They were preserved as iron monuments to the shock and awe philosophy of the United States military.
If a cast-iron monument to RoboCop suggests resignation to Detroit's decline, it also suggests the playful will to keep Detroit alive as an object of imagination, and in imagination there is hope.
The old safety hydrants -- which, at over 500 pounds each, are like small cast-iron monuments -- haven't been used since the early 1980's, and the city has been painstakingly extracting and disposing of them for several years.
In this article we present a preliminary study discussing new perspectives for future research and interpretation of the Bronze and Iron Age monuments and monumental landscapes in terms of their social dynamic in these early complex societies.
She remains uncowed even as the party pulls down the cast-iron Stalin monument that dominates Dolgov's Victory Square.
The iron fence around the monument, which was restored and rededicated in 1995, is famous among aficionados of cast iron.
The city's Iron Mission State Historical Monument is the site of the first blast furnace west of the Mississippi.
Last month, landscapers planted flowers and other greenery in the north and south parks, the cast iron urns around the monument and all the concrete urns on the plaza and throughout the squares.
Today, the battlefield is kind of a hole in the corner, its iron fences rusting, its monuments crumbling.
In 1860 (38 years before the four other boroughs were consolidated into the city) and decades after the commissioners' surveyor, John Randel Jr., had staked out the intersections with marble monuments and iron rods, an army of laborers had begun to level and even pave the undulating landscape (Manahatta, by one definition, meant Island of Hills).
Three of the features on and around the courthouse grounds, Iron Mike, the War Memorial, and The Soldiers' Monument, all greatly contribute to the sense of time and place that the Oregon Commercial Historic District conveys.
