Sentence examples for urban experiment from inspiring English sources

Governors Island is another enlightened urban experiment.

Then the fire came, gutting their urban experiment.

The world's greatest urban experiment is under way right now in Copenhagen.

But they did then, even as crime and welfare costs were sinking the "urban experiment" across the nation.

Thessaloniki Otherwise's first major event last year, an "urban experiment and celebration of our public spaces", drew 30,000 people.

The most intriguing part of the show is about a group of artists and hackers in Paris called UX, or Urban eXperiment.

Remembering that it was in the EUR development (one of Mussolini's urban experiments), we guessed at the train stop, incorrectly.

But for Brad Smith, a resident for more than half a century, the opportunity to live on the footprint of one of the great urban experiments means a great deal more.

Their gargantuan scale and tabula rasa approach conjure old-style Modernist planning efforts like the creation of Brasília in the 1950s or the colossal Soviet urban experiments of the 1930s, but these are driven by anxiety over the future, not utopian idealism.

The concept may sound a little all over the place, but in truth the show is mostly about buildings, the dreams that inspired them, the plans their builders had for them, what got built as well as what didn't and the influences those buildings wrought -- all meant, in the words of the exhibition's introduction, to "highlight some of the region's most ambitious urban experiments".

But after seeing the results of his urban farming experiment, he said he wouldn't have done it any other way.