And just beyond their doorstep, residents can traverse city blocks teeming with local centers of industry and research.
Set up in 1948 to house families displaced in Israel's struggle for independence, they have evolved into tangled alleys of elemental concrete blocks, teeming with children, chickens and the occasional goat.
May Chee, who is a neighbor of the family and grew up on the block, said she would often see Ms. Li outside with her children, who would chase one another and play with the other children who live along 57th Street, a block teeming with young people.
Now living in Zarqa, a poor Jordanian city teeming with factories and crumbling apartment blocks, she is looking for work.
It was just minutes after the shots were fired, but already the street was teeming with officers, and ambulances were blocking traffic.
The 30-block neighborhood, teeming with bars, cabarets and restaurants, will be ground zero on Friday when Sapporo is host to the most eagerly awaited -- and feared -- match of this World Cup: England versus Argentina.
For all the improvements it has undergone, the office still stands across the street from one of the city's many boarded-up buildings, and just blocks from streets teeming with drugs, violence and despair.
These photographs confront the dominant vision of la as a sprawling non-place of freeways and disconnected downtowns by zooming in on public parks and neighborhood blocks that are teeming with edible plant life (or "public fruit").
It stocks new and used books, takes up a whole city block, and is teeming with long-haired Oregonians, baskets overflowing with important novels.
Afghanistan was teeming with opportunists.
Platforms were teeming with people.
