Sentence examples for urban imagination from inspiring English sources
And that they are as far from the urban imagination as a foreign country.
As Graeme Davison, author of City Dreamers, a new history of the Australian urban imagination, puts it: "In one bold leap, Melbourne threw off its Victorian dowdiness and became the most self-consciously modern Australian city".
The balancing act, officials say, is to find ways to slash expenses and raise money without endangering the city's recovery from the attack on the World Trade Center, or resorting to the level of layoffs, service cuts and deferred maintenance triggered by the 1970's fiscal crisis -- service cuts that still haunt the urban imagination.
I wondered if all that suffering the day before was worth with the picturesque views - the same views my worn urban imagination was starving for.
Rappers and comic books go together like peanut butter and jelly; the art of storytelling mixed with animated visuals influenced with an urban imagination - I am officially turnt up.
Some of the sketches have transformed into landmarks; some remain figments of urban architects' imaginations, good and bad.
It is testament to the power of Philadelphia's garden squares as an idea that they were inscribed in maps for a century or more before they materialised (indeed, while their grounds were used as rubbish dumps and burial sites), and that they are now an indelible feature of the city's urban identity and imagination.
The work of human geographers has concerned itself with numerous styles of urban representation and imagination.
"The party," analyst Pratap Bhanu Mehta told me, "is the creation of urban, middle class imagination".
In conclusion, reflecting upon recent critical literatures and providing pointers to nascent research directions, it suggests some aspects of urban representation and imagination which may have been hitherto overlooked.
First, it introduces the significant ways in which human geographers have represented and imagined urban geographies, and thus contributed significantly to the representation and imagination of 'the urban'.
