However, some urban historians contest Mr. Shi's account, saying that the California College was elsewhere in Beijing.
We witness conflict, that is to say: the formation of urban context through the contest of ideas.
OSAKA'S concrete canyons and elevated freeways will never win the city any urban beauty contests.
The coincidence this time with many more urban authority contests will boost Labour.
Bidding contests for urban spaces, which epitomize the interplay of global power relations and local opportunities, are paralleled by contests over locationally valuable non-urban resources, notably those associated with the expanding business of tourism.
There were almost 100 entries into New York City's third annual Big Apps contest, grappling with urban issues like transportation, education and land use.
The academy also consolidated four awards for various genres of rural Mexican music into two categories and put all the Latin pop, rock and urban music into a single contest.
At the end of Friday's performance Tamango introduced Maritza Concepción, the 16-year-old winner of Urban Talent Search 2001, a contest inspired by his company and sponsored by the New Victory and the radio station WBLS-FM (107.5).
To build such a machine costs around $1m for the car, kit, software, and brainpower, says Jonathan Sprinkle, co-leader of an American-Australian team that entered a driverless vehicle in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, a robotic-car contest sponsored by the research arm of the American Department of Defence.
Mr. Neumann was part of a design team, called normaldesign, that was recently a finalist in a contest to develop urban place markers -- ways of highlighting sometimes obscure New York City locales of significance, from the meatpacking district in Manhattan to the Empire Roller Skating Center in Brooklyn.
