Sentence examples for urban theme from inspiring English sources

Is there a urban theme developing?

Michael Hann Julian Siegel Urban Theme Park A UK-jazz supergroup, pairing the powerful and imaginative reeds soloist Julian Siegel with pianist Liam Noble, and both are melodically absorbing and disinclined to run out of improv steam.

Now, nearly a half-century later, New York is home to the most high-profile attack on the movement yet: in a recent exhibition at the New Museum, the architect Rem Koolhaas accused preservationists of aimlessly cherry-picking the past; of destroying people's complex sense of urban evolution; and, most damningly, of bedding down with private developers to create gentrified urban theme parks.

For a while now, it's been clear that much of New York's cultural and artistic energy has moved across the East River, vacating Manhattan — or the lower two-thirds of it — to its fate as an urban theme park and empty nesters' retreat.

"The real tragedy is that there is no effort to reclaim what was there, no aspiration and no resources to go back to something that approximates what was there before," said Camilo Jose Vergara, a photographer who has proposed creating an urban theme park out of the downtown wreckage, which was highlighted in his 1999 book, "American Ruins".

The album opens with an instrumental track, "The Urban Theme", which begins with the sound of a stylus dropping on a vinyl record.

He had made the move to urban themes.

Whereas Chase tended to focus on socially prominent subjects, Henri increasingly sought out unrefined urban themes.

Mr. Brown had a long and prolific career producing work on religious, historical and urban themes in addition to his portraiture.

The modernist poet Forough Farrokhzad felt indebted to Nima, but, unlike her role model, she explored urban themes in her verse and candidly expressed her sexual longings.

He continued to paint industrial and urban themes, but at the same time something new and interesting in his paintings began to occur.