Sentence examples for true city from inspiring English sources
"They are not true City supporters.
Still, for many New Yorkers, self-guided navigation remains a sign of true city citizenship.
Every city in America is approached the last true city; after him.
The novelist JG Ballard described the airport as "the true city of the 21st century".
A true city is a mirror, in which the blemishes are our own.
That is true city-making.
Although the civitates were too large to act as true city-states, they contained towns, either already in existence (e.g., Lutetia Parisiorum [Paris]) or newly founded (e.g., Augustodunum ["Augustusville"]), that could be designated as their administrative centres and developed, by local magnates at their own expense, in accordance with Classical criteria.
True cities should never have such smalltown mentalities.
But true cities are dense, messy, uncontrolled and cosmopolitan – the opposite of garden cities or self-styled "office hubs".
