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	SLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the City Council passed an ordinance to regulate the burning of soft coal in 1890, it was seldom enforced.
		The area from Murray to Salt Lake City was called the "smoke belt." Farmers complained of damage to their crops and livestock from smelter smoke pelted onto their fields and animals by wind and rain.
		City parks — including a nature park in City Creek Canyon — were built, sewer systems and street lighting installed and streets were paved.
	www.slcgov.com /info/area_info/salt_lake_city.htm (2914 words)

	Underground city -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An underground city is a network of underground (A passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)) tunnels that connect buildings, usually in the downtown area of a city.
		Underground cities are especially important in cities with cold climates, as they permit the downtown core to be enjoyed year round without regard to the weather.
		Underground cities are similar in nature to (A designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another) skyway systems and may include some buildings linked by skyways or above-ground corridors rather than underground.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/un/underground_city.htm (1108 words)

	JS Online: City blocks veterans from headquarters
		A padlock and an eviction order block the veterans in VFW Post 2874 from their headquarters in a city-owned building on W. Wisconsin Ave., prompting another legal skirmish between the old fighters and the City of Milwaukee.
		City planners envision retail and housing developments on the entire block from N. 26th St. to N. 27th St. between W. Michigan St. and W. Wisconsin Ave.
		City officials say that the post's lease ceased to exist after the city acquired the property through the condemnation, and that the real issue now is just money.
	www.jsonline.com /news/metro/mar03/128513.asp?format=print (584 words)

	Carfree Cities: Blocks
		In some cities, blocks are often perfectly uniform, as in large gridded areas of Manhattan and many other US cities.
		In other cities, blocks are highly irregular, as in most European city centers and the oldest parts of Boston.
		About 88 blocks of this size would comprise a single district (although only a few of the blocks could be the same shape as the reference block).
	www.carfree.com /block.html (429 words)

	1947 Texas City Disaster
		A queer quirk of the Texas City explosion was found by Johnny Hendrickson, photographer for The News, in a tour of the devastated area Thursday.
		Although not all casualties were residents of Texas City, the total was equivalent to a staggering 25 percent of the towns estimated population of 16,000.
		In 1997, the City of Texas City, both the elected leadership and volunteer citizens, planned to observe the Fifthieth Anniversary of the Texas City Disaster in a meaningful way that would both commemorate the event and celebrate the City's recovery and progress over the past fifty years.
	www.local1259iaff.org /disaster.html (3617 words)

	SANDBRIDGE RESIDENTS' MISTRUST OF CITY INTENTIONS BLOCKS RESTORATION PLANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Deciding that Sandbridge was on the brink of serious property damage from steadily eroding beaches, the City Council agreed last fall to a one-time city-funded project that would dump 1.5 million cubic feet of sand on the beach, raising and widening the beach to absorb punishment from storms.
		But first, the city needs to get easements from all the property owners - not an easy task when there is lingering suspicion of the city's intentions that tie in with the issue of failed bulkheads.
		The city threatened last year to remove some of the faulty steel bulkheads, declaring them a public hazard, and bill the owners, but the city backed off after losing in court its right to take such action.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970211/02110219.htm (682 words)

	City of San Diego Redevelopment Agency City Heights Project Area
		The City of San Diego's 1,984-acre City Heights Redevelopment Project Area comprises various community planning areas focusing on education and beautification of the community.
		The centerpiece of the project area is the City Heights Urban Village, a public/private partnership effort that encompasses nine City blocks.
		A variety of excellent redevelopment opportunities are afforded in City Heights due to several established commercial districts, multi-family and single-family housing, access via four major freeways, and industrially-designated properties.
	www.sandiego.gov /redevelopment-agency/cityhts.shtml (305 words)

	City Comforts, the blog: Hello Columbus to the I-670 Cap
		Cities, architecture, the 'new urbanism,' real estate, historic preservation, urban design, land use law, landscape, transport etc etc from a mildly libertarian stance.
		City Comforts Blog: Hello Columbus to the I-670 Cap Of course, those with a sense of history will know that this is far from a new concept.
		City Comforts is essential reading if you want to understand your environment, and better yet, gives you the tools to change it.
	citycomfortsblog.typepad.com /cities/2003/08/i670_cap.html (2220 words)

	Pourade: City of the Dream
		The City's Old Guard, oriented as it was to the buying and selling of land, could take cheer in the fact that in 1958 almost 11,000 new homes had been built, or were about to be built, in the City, and more than 22,000 in the County as a whole.
		It was blocked off to the north from a Los Angeles spill-over by a huge Marine base; to the east by mountains and to the south by Mexico; to the west by the ocean.
		Mayor Dail assured the CAA that the City was not planning to permanently use Lindbergh Field as the City's master airport and as a result the CAA looked favorably on a request for Federal assistance in the interests of practicality and safety.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /books/pourade/dream/dreamchapter8.htm (5425 words)

	California city blocks employees’ access to some sites
		But this city of about 12,000 is using software to block the gateway to harmful or inappropriate Internet use by city employees.
		At the end of each month, Finkel hands the city’s department directors a report for each employee, showing who has been where and for how long, and if any of these sites were monitored or blocked.
		No one on the city staff has yet has been able to foil the software, Finkel said.
	www.gcn.com /vol1_no1/daily-updates/21249-1.html (403 words)

	The San Fransico Earthquake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1906 San Francisco was the biggest city on the West Coast.
		Four hundred and ninety 490 city blocks were destroyed.
		City officials believed between 450 and 700 people were killed.
	www.mce.k12tn.net /disasters/earthquake.htm (227 words)

	Casino sells 3 blocks to city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		City council members will vote on the sale this week; a meeting hasn't been scheduled.
		The city will pay for the land from the $12 million in revenues it receives annually from Argosy Casino, which won the gaming license Golden Nugget sought in 1994, Mr.
		Argosy paid the city nearly $6 million in wagering and admission taxes during the last half of 1997, but downtown hasn't experienced a big spinoff from the casino docked just east of the business district.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/06/08/loc_goldennugget.html (622 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While conquering Fallujah was seen as a must in combating the insurgency and setting the stage for national elections planned for January, immense destruction and delays in returning the city to something close to normalcy threaten to further inflame Sunni Muslims already at the heart of the insurgency.
		Journalists embedded with U.S. troops inside the city witnessed destruction on a massive scale, with entire city blocks of homes badly damaged or reduced to rubble.
		Daniel Wilson, the expeditionary force’s deputy director of current operations, said there were as many as 50,000 buildings in the city, all of which must be checked room-by-room for insurgents and weapons.
	www.navytimes.com /print.php?f=1-292925-514679.php (532 words)

	City solicitor blocks private enterprise while waiting for 'right' developer: 7/ 13/ 2004
		The July 10 headline on The Standard-Times article which sums up City Solicitor Matt Thomas's position on the vacant mill property, "Coveted complex still waiting for right developer," should be a wake-up call to all of us who pay taxes in the city.
		That sir, is the task of private enterprise, not the city.
		I believe that the first priority of city government is to provide a safe and secure environment for its population; the city is failing at this miserably.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/07-04/07-13-04/a13op722.htm (612 words)

	The Eli Whitney Museum, Eli Whitney: The Family
		But with the rapid westward movement of the population into the nation's western empire in the 1830s, a mass market for firearms was developing, a market which could not be adequately supplied by gun-smiths, craftsmen who operated on a small scale.
		In addition, with the rise of the urban middle classes in the great eastern cities, a major market was developing for sporting arms, guns used for target-shooting and hunting.
		But by 1850, the city contained 20,345 souls and had become a major transportation nexus and a center for the industrial production of clocks, carriages, and firearms.
	www.eliwhitney.org /family.htm (2120 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ryan's Room City Blocks includes 12 chunky, colorful wooden blocks in the shape of familiar city sights.
		City Blocks encourages great imaginative play as kids begin to imitate everyday life with these "realistic" playthings.
		But not only do Ryan's Room City Blocks encourage imaginative play, kids also develop manipulative skills and hand-eye coordination through the lacing activities - all the blocks can be laced together using break-away string with a sturdy wooden dowel rod to make lacing safe, easy and fun!
	www.growingtreetoys.com /product/4901pf (122 words)

	The number of city blocks in a country mile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I am not sure where you are but I am sure that the size of a city block varies from city to city.
		It is very flat here and there were no trees when the city was established so the central part of the city is laid out with streets rinning east-west and north-south.
		I asked the the Regina Urban Planning Board, an agency of the city, and the response was that in Regina there are 16 blocks to the mile on easy-west streets and 9 blocks to the mile on north-south streets.
	mathcentral.uregina.ca /qq/database/QQ.09.99/hearst1.html (237 words)

	MAXON Computer Cinema 4D Tutorials: Camera Animation through a City
		You'll have to create copies of City Blocks and move them around so they can cover a large area while still leaving a space for the detailed buildings.
		The key to getting your scene to look like a city is by giving the impression that your city blocks continue to sprawl outward as far as the eye can see.
		This is a simple way to hide the fact that your city is limited only to what you can see directly in front of the camera.
	www.maxoncomputer.com /tutorial_detail.asp?tutorialID=65&site= (1137 words)

	MAXON Computer Cinema 4D Tutorials: How to Create City Blocks
		Rotate the city blocks so that your new larger block of city doesn't look repeptitive.
		You can go even further with this concept and group together a very large city block.
		Place the light source somewhere above and slightly to the side of your city blocks.
	www.maxoncomputer.com /tutorial_detail.asp?tutorialID=60&site= (2684 words)

	Brigham City Virtual Travel in 741 images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Brigham City was founded in 1851 by Mormon Pioneers in the Bear River Valley at the mouth of Box Elder Canyon.
		Brigham City was laid out with wide streets and large city blocks so that the settlers could raise their animals and gardens at their homes.
		The city was named after the Brigham Young, the prophet of the Mormon Church.
	www.untraveledroad.com /USA/Utah/BoxElder/BrighamCity.htm (308 words)

	Shreveport City History
		The original townsite consisted of sixty-four city blocks divided by eight streets running west from the Red River and eight streets running south from Cross Bayou, a tributary of the red River.
		Today this sixty-four block area is the city's central business district and is a National Register of Historic Places-listed district.
		Shreveport, and its smaller sister city, Bossier City (founded in 1884 and incorporated in 1907) together have six historic districts and many landmarks listed on the National Register.
	www.ci.shreveport.la.us /history.htm (394 words)

	Knossos Games - If/Then City Blocks
		I don't remember how I came up with the notion of navigating city blocks from an overhead, map-like perspective, but it turned out to be the perfect match for the If - Then - Else structure.
		This type of puzzle was the first of many that I started making in 2002 that required new methods of charting a problem space.
		When I started making the first If/Then City Block puzzle, I had a large (approximately ten block by ten block) physical space for the problem, and had an intended solution path through the space.
	homepage.mac.com /boester/itcb/itcb.DBoard01.html (547 words)

	City Journal Autumn 2001 \| What Should Rise from the Ashes? by Alexander Stoddart, James McCrery, Arthur Lohsen, ...
		City Journal has asked the architectural firm of Franck Lohsen McCrery of Washington and New York, in collaboration with the Scottish monumental sculptor Alexander Stoddart, to imagine what the rebuilt site could look like.
		First, it rejoins the site to the city's street grid, inviting pedestrians into the area and making possible a vibrant urban street life.
		It interrupts Dey Street in order to encompass two city blocks, and two great arches span Dey Street to mark the ceremonial entrance to the square on either side.
	www.city-journal.org /html/11_4_what_should_rise.html (761 words)

	Tolerance.org: Teaching Tolerance: City Blocks
		Second graders use wooden blocks and their imaginations to build a tolerant community in their classroom.
		One of the problems was that some children got more blocks than others and some spaces were bigger than others.
		At those times, the child was usually persuaded by peers or an occasional raised eyebrow from me to give some blocks to other children who didn't have a lot.
	www.tolerance.org /teach/activities/activity.jsp?cid=341 (669 words)

	Dystopia City Blocks 031-040 (Poser) at Renderosity.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Collect all 100 city blocks and be the envy of other futuristic town planners.
		Another advantage of this approach is that you can save your city layouts as poses and set texuring options for the whole city at once instead of setting them block by block.
		A 3DS/OBJ Version and an LWO Version of city blocks 031-040 are sold separately.
	www.renderosity.com /products/25131.html (515 words)

	madison.com \| archives: City Blocks Booms $$ For Scouts
		On the eve of a news conference announcing details for this year's Rhythm & Booms, the City Council approved a provision that effectively prohibits event organizers from donating proceeds to the local Boy Scouts.
		The provision passed by the City Council amends the city's contract with the Fireworks Fund.
		The city also formalized insurance provisions in the event of a rainout to cover police costs.
	www.madison.com /archives/read.php?ref=tct:2004:06:02:374480:METRO (374 words)

	Sapporo, Japan, City Images
		Sapporo is a northern city, and even is Spring there are signs that this is a place famous for its winter festival of ice sculpture.
		The city is new by Japanese standards, and it an urban enclive in largely-rural Hokkaido.
		This page shows some ordinary views of the city, ordinary for the residents, that is, but novel to the Western visitor.
	www.cgsd.com /rlatham/Sapporo/Sapporo.html (341 words)

	ipedia.com: Underground city Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An underground city is a network of underground tunnels that connect buildings, usually in the downtown area of a city.
		Underground cities are similar in nature to skyway systems and may include some buildings linked by skyways or above-ground corridors rather than underground.
		Montreal (la ville souterraine) whose 32 kilometres of tunnels connect seven downtown metro stations and many important office towers and malls on 41 city blocks, with smaller tunnel systems in other parts of the city linking other attractions to metro stations.
	www.ipedia.com /underground_city.html (583 words)

	[No title]
		I spent a long weekend a year for sixteen years in Orinda with my extended family, walking around the city, picking persimmons, and in general enjoying myself.
		I visited for a music festival that turned several city blocks into a giant party.
		Sort of like a town that overgrew its city limits and realized, belatedly, that it had become a metropolis.
	www.couchsurfing.com /map_surf.html?id=74432 (156 words)

	William J. Clinton Foundation "A Hidden Treasure: The City Blocks Project"
		A public art display of painted ceramic tiles, the City Blocks installation covers the drab walls of the I-30 underpass, adding vibrant color and beauty to an otherwise forgettable façade.
		Parks and recreation staff worked with senior groups to coordinate the final glazing and firing of the tiles, and after two long years, the project was complete.
		Earlier this month, Little Rock Mayor Jim Dailey led the dedication ceremony for City Blocks, noting "The tiles are a snapshot of life in Little Rock from 2002 to 2004.
	www.clintonfoundation.org /111504-feature-underpass-tiles.htm (360 words)

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