Sentence examples for transformations of cities from inspiring English sources

As urban planning has sought to shape the trajectory of urban development, human geography has recorded and reported these efforts while also charting the transformations of cities that planning seeks to harness and control.

The transformation of cities into theme park versions of themselves.

The most obvious result has been the dramatic transformation of cities like Beijing and Shanghai into gleaming, international metropolises filled with cars and shopping malls.

But it is the section on New York that best captures the show's subtext: the transformation of cities themselves from places where things are made to places mostly about consumption.

The opprobrium hurled at anyone who could be called a "hipster" indicates a belief that it is the choices made in consumption by such reprobates: vintage clothing, expensive coffee and a questionable taste in music – that is the driving force behind the spatial transformation of cities.

This philosophical and economical demand was satisfied by the transformation of cities where people lived in, into areas where people move around.

This volume of Progress in Planning seeks to contribute to the widening debate about how the transformation of cities to respond to the changing climate is being understood, managed and achieved.

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Mega-events have driven the urban transformation of cities such as Barcelona, London, Rio, Beijing, and Shanghai, but while the prospect of economic growth is the driving force for hosting a major event, the legacies that follow their hosting have been difficult to design and quantify (Preuss 2007).

The design criteria for major infrastructure, such as bridges, ports, campuses, shopping centers, etc. will need to be urgently redefined to facilitate the transformation of cities towards renewable sources, and readjusted for extreme climatic events, like floods, storm surges, global temperature increases, sea-level rise, water shortages, and droughts.

A consistent pattern in the transformation of cities and metropolitan areas by transnational economic integration, in countries rich and poor alike, is that gaps between economic winners and losers grow, based on their position within the global economy and the basis of their connection (or lack of connection) to it.