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	VALENCIA (CITY IN SPAIN) : Encyclopedia Entry
		The estimated population of the city of Valencia proper was 796,549 as of 2005 estimates.
		The Blessed Virgin was proclaimed patroness of the city under the title of "Virgen de los desamparados" 'Virgin of the abandonees', and Archbishop Pedro de Urbina, on 31 June, 1652, laid the corner-stone of the new chapel of this name.
		King James I of Aragon reconquered the city in 1238 and incorporated it to the new formed Kingdom of Valencia, one of the kingdoms forming the Crown of Aragon.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Valencia_(city_in_Spain) (3597 words)

	'City of Arts and Sciences' in Valencia, Spain, features planetarium and science museum that make extensive use of ...
		Valencia's planetarium (left) and science museum opened in 2000.
		A newly opened 'City of Arts and Sciences' in Valencia, Spain features a planetarium and science museum that both make extensive use of laminated glass to achieve "a challenging and audacious architectural assembly", in the words of architect Santiago Calatrava, also of Valencia.
		The planetarium globe, which houses a viewing theatre, is roofed over by an elliptical shell structure of laminated glass and aluminum with longitudinal sections that can open to the sky.
	www.dupont.com /safetyglass/lgn/stories/1801.html (325 words)

	City Tech - About Us - City Tech Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		New York City College of Technology (City Tech) of The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest public college of technology in New York State and a national model for technological education.
		City Tech’s outstanding faculty -- many recruited from business, industry and the professions and most holding the highest degree in their fields -- provide students with the benefit of their extensive knowledge and real-world experience.
		City Tech has produced some 75,000 graduates, most of whom have remained in the metropolitan New York area and continue to contribute to its economic and professional vitality.
	www.citytech.cuny.edu /aboutus/profile/index.shtml (899 words)

	College of Arts and Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The College of Arts and Sciences is the intellectual center of the University of South Alabama and is the foundation for establishing and building the quality of the University’s academic programs.
		The natural sciences, mathematical, and statistical component of the general education curriculum focuses on the experience of science as a rational search for understanding the natural world, and the appreciation of mathematics and statistics as valuable tools for everyday life and as intrinsically important ways of thinking.
		Undergraduate students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree in the College of Arts and Sciences are required to have a major and a minor.
	www.southalabama.edu /bulletin/artsansc.htm (2877 words)

	arts@MIT Press Release 2/2/2005: Santiago Calatrava receives MIT's McDermott Award
		The Eugene McDermott Award was established in 1974 by the Council for the Arts at MIT to honor the memory of Eugene McDermott, benefactor to MIT in education and the arts.
		From 1974 to 1989, the award was presented annually to an individual for "major contributions to the arts as a means of human fulfillment." In 1990, the Council for the Arts amended the criteria of the award to enhance its relevance to the MIT community.
		The Council for the Arts at MIT is a volunteer group of alumni and friends established to support the visual, literary and performing arts at MIT.
	web.mit.edu /arts/announcements/prs/2005/0202_calatrava.html (1483 words)

	Web-Valencia: Photos of Valencia, Spain. City of arts and sciences.
		The city of the arts and sciences are a set of buildings, of futurist design, built by the most prestigious architects of the moment.
		Inaugurated at the end of the 2000, the Museum of Sciences is a spectacular building of 40,000 square meters dedicated to approach the science to the visitors.
		The museum objective is the spreading of science and technology, so, it animates the visitors to participate actively in the experiments.
	www.web-valencia.com /valencia-photos-cityofartsandsciences.htm (467 words)

	Santiago Calatrava - City of Arts and Sciences :: arcspace.com
		The City of Arts and Sciences, developed by Santiago Calatrava, is a large-scale urban recreation center for culture and science which also incorporates L’Oceanogràfic, an underwater city designed by the late Felix Candela.
		Set in the old dried-up river bed of the Turia, midway between the old city of Valencia and the coastal district of Nazaret, the City of Arts and Sciences covers an area of 350,000 square meters.
		Following a disastrous flood in 1957, the river was diverted along a canal to the south of the city, and the dried-out riverbed planted as a 7 kilometer long promenade through the center of the city.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/calatrava/camino_moreras/index.htm (573 words)

	Macon Telegraph \| 09/17/2006 \| Spain's third-largest city is only getting better (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Here, on an 87-acre, derelict parcel, the city has spent nearly $3 billion in recent years to produce a series of futuristic crystal palaces that serve as museums and performance spaces.
		Four of the buildings in the City of Arts and Sciences were designed by the dazzling architect Santiago Calatrava, a native of Valencia whose bridges and buildings have met wide acclaim throughout Europe and the Americas.
		The 229-foot-high performing arts center, which opens for its first opera season in October, is as distinctive as the Sydney Opera House.
	www.macon.com /mld/macon/living/15519195.htm (975 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel: Valencia adds new performing arts center
		Already open in the $495 million complex are the four-level science museum; the sprawling oceanarium with its nine buildings and 83-foot-high global aviary; a combination planetarium and IMAX theater called the Hemispheric; and the Umbracle, a huge covered garden/belvedere that acts as a connecting walkway and transportation hub for the project.
		Although Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences undoubtedly will dominate Valencia as it prepares to host the America's Cup yacht race in 2007, the city already is blessed with a trove of well-preserved buildings from the past.
		Similarly striking old buildings are scattered throughout the Old City, among them the old gate to the city, the Torres de Serranos; the Palaces of Batlia, Los Scala and Benicarlo; the Santa Catalina Tower; City Hall and the Convent of Santo Domingo.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/travel/2002497656_valencia18.html (980 words)

	Valencia travel guide - Wikitravel
		This fact, along with the construction of the City of Arts and Science by renown architect and Valencian, Santiago Calatrava, have made Valencia a city in transition.
		The city center and the most visited neighborhoods are not particularly close to the beach.
		Valencia Airport (VLC) is 9 km from the city centre.
	wikitravel.org /en/Valencia_(city) (2426 words)

	City Watch: Under the sun, into the future - Travel & Dining - International Herald Tribune
		They may look more like spaceships than sailboats, but those other gleaming white forms on the horizon are the architectural marvels of the futuristic-looking City of Arts and Sciences, designed by Santiago Calatrava, a native son.
		Another cultural institution, the Valencia Institute of Modern Art, is embarking on a major expansion by the Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa that will not only increase exhibition space and services but will also reorient the main entrance of the museum toward the bohemian Carmen barrio in the old city.
		The Palace of the Arts, soon to be completed and widely considered Calatrava's most spectacular work to date, will house stages for opera, dance and theater performances.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/08/11/opinion/trvalencia.php (970 words)

	Web Valencia: Guide and photos of Valencia, Spain, the city of arts and sciences, fallas, paella and more...
		At few meters of the Seat of the City council of Valencia, in the Játiva street (Xátiva), we found the main railway station, the Station of the North, and the Bullring.
		It is located in the former riverbed of the river Turia, closely together of the city of the arts and of the sciences.
		On the 19th in the night, all they burn of almost simultaneously, between the emotion of the falleros and the surprise and incomprehension of the visitor, who does not remain impassive before the spectacle.
	www.web-valencia.com /indexeng.htm (1131 words)

	The City of Arts and Sciences on ValenciaValencia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The City of Arts and Sciences is a huge futuristic educational complex designed for Valencia by the famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrva, as a present to his home city.
		The City of Arts and Sciences is composed of 5 elements:
		The Palace of Arts has 4 distinct auditoriums for various kinds of stage arts, from classical concerts and operas to theatre plays.
	www.valenciavalencia.com /sights-guide/cas.htm (510 words)

	Bonetown \| Arts \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the center of the main room of Henry Art Gallery's exhibition, Santiago Calatrava: The Architect's Studio, is a model of the City of Arts and Sciences located in Valencia, Spain.
		Consisting of a white bridge, white opera hall, white planetarium, white floating walkway, and white winter garden, the City of Arts and Sciences is the City of God.
		The structures of Calatrava (who is a mathematician, designer, and sculptor) inspire two responses, the first of which is utter amazement at the sight of their soaring and asymmetrical elegance.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=19774 (618 words)

	Valencia (Spain) - City of Arts and Sciences - - SkyscraperCity
		Valencia (Spain) - City of Arts and Sciences - - SkyscraperCity
		Valencia is the third city of Spain (about 1 million inhabitants).It's a big modern city, and this is the City of Arts and Sciences (by Santiago Calatrava) with the Imax, Opera, Museum of Science, gardens and the biggest aquarium of Europe.
		The Arts and Sciences City is a great work and the buidings are very nifty and the my favourite is the the Hemisphere is the more little of those building but i love that organic structure, looks like a great armadillo.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=359945 (461 words)

	UMKC Life Sciences
		The quest to understand the human body is the burden and the joy of life sciences researchers.
		UMKC is one of fewer than 30 universities in the nation to have medicine, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy education programs centrally located on one campus.
		Seven of UMKC's 12 schools and colleges (Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Arts and Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Computing and Engineering) are actively engaged in life sciences research and have formal affiliations with four Kansas City hospitals that conduct biomedical research.
	lifesciences.umkc.edu (457 words)

	Biography: Santiago Calatrava
		His first winning competition proposal, in 1983, was for the design and construction of Stadelhofen Railway Station in Zurich, the city in which he established his office.
		A new stage in recognition was marked by two solo exhibitions: a retrospective at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, in 1992, and the exhibition Structure and Expression at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1993.
		The first phase of the Opera House of the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia is scheduled for an autumn 2003 inauguration.
	www.smu.edu /newsinfo/releases/m2013b.html (782 words)

	City of the Arts and Sciences (Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias) - Valencia - Reviews of City of the Arts and ...
		City of the Arts and Sciences (Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias)
		City of the Arts and Sciences (Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias) is featured in the following goLists.
		These cities may be off the beaten path, but each is well worth a visit.
	www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g187529-d244246-Reviews-City_of_the_Arts_and_Sciences_Ciudad_de_las_Artes_y_las_Ciencias-Valencia_Valencian_Country.html (1120 words)

	Valencia Overview \| Valencia City Guide \| iExplore.com
		A short hop from the resorts of the Costa Blanca to the south and serviced by a large number of low-cost airlines, its transformation is being led by two huge projects.
		The first is the architectural tour de force La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (The City of Arts and Sciences) housing an eclectic range of visitor attractions.
		Meanwhile, the nautically challenged and those unmoved by modern architecture should not forget that despite its unprepossessing first impressions (and ghastly high rise suburbs), Spain’s third city boasts an atmospheric old town that is the equal of any of the country’s centros históricos, as well as a good beach just a five-minute ride from there.
	www.iexplore.com /cityguides/Spain/Valencia/Overview (270 words)

	Santiago Calatrava - City of Arts and Sciences :: arcspace.com
		The City of Arts and Sciences is located in the dry bed of the Turia River, midway between the old city of Valencia and the coastal district of Nazaret.
		The Opera House, Planetarium/IMAX Theater (Hemispheric Theater) and Príncipe Felipe Science Museum form a linear sequence from west to east.
		A fourth structure, known as L'Umbracle, is a promenade and parking garage built within an open arcade, providing a contemporary reinvention of the winter garden.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/calatrava/video1/video1.html (123 words)

	Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias (City of the Arts and Sciences) \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Valencia \| ...
		Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias (City of the Arts and Sciences)
		Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe: Devoted to science and discovery, the building takes the form of a vast roof supported by a transparent glazed north facade and an opaque south facade.
		At the center, the visitor will be able to not only to look at, but also to touch and feel in this "museum of sensations." The museum is filled with special exhibitions demonstrating the high technology of companies in the 21st century.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/valencia/A21000.html (493 words)

	City Arts & Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		City Arts and Lectures will present an evening with
		Jim Lehrer once admitted that he is known as "the TV guy who also writes books.
		Lehrer has often voiced his concern regarding the "tendency of journalism to be something akin to professional wrestling, something to watch rather than to believe." Along with winning numerous awards in journalism, Lehrer is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	www.cityarts.net /n.lehrer.html (272 words)

	Valencia govt. to fund city centre F1 track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Valencian government has decided to go along with the idea of Formula 1 supremo, Bernie Ecclestone, and opt for the creation of a circuit around the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia rather than alter the Cheste circuit.
		Formula 1 supremo, Bernie Ecclestone, paid a second visit to Valencia yesterday, where, accompanied by Alfonso Novo and Victoriano Sanchez of Valencia town council, he undertook a second inspection of Valencia port, the quays, the City of Arts and Sciences and adjacent streets.
		In a generally highly relaxed atmosphere, Mr Ecclestone was asked his opinion of the Cheste circuit, which he stated was "very good," but added that he considered a circuit around Valencia port and the City of Arts and Sciences to be of greater value image-wise.
	www.thinkspain.com /news-spain/12280 (459 words)

	The Valencia's City of Art and Sciences - Valencia pictures on Worldisround (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Born at Valencia, in July 1951, he designed in 1991 the City of Arts and Sciences, a great complex that is now becoming finished in the Southern corner of that Mediterranean city.
		What we thought, indeed, when we saw by the first time the group formed by the Hemispheric and the Museum of Sciences of Valencia was that we were watching a fascinating mixture of Gaudí and Stars War.
		The City of Arts and Sciences is constituted by the Oceanographic Museum, the Prince Felipe Museum of Sciences, the Planetarium, and the Queen Sofía Museum of Arts, all these buildings being placed in the context of a great scenery made of blue water, white gates and green vegetation.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/267655/text.html (290 words)

	College of Arts and Sciences Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The College of Arts and Sciences offers a variety of programs and courses leading to many successful careers.
		Faculty in the arts, English, and social sciences are principally located in Beadle Hall.
		Math and science faculty are located in the C. Ruth Haberger Science Center.
	www.departments.dsu.edu /artssciences (102 words)

	UD College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		UD College of Arts and Sciences - Department of Geology
		If you would like more information about our geology program or want to arrange a visit to meet faculty or attend a class, please do not hesitate to contact me.
		A Solid Science Basis without a Science Major...
	artssciences.udayton.edu /geology (240 words)

	Apostolic Visit: Valencia, Spain, 8-9 July 2006, Pope Benedict XVI - EWTN Document Library
		On Saturday evening, 8 July, the Holy Father went to the City or Arts and Sciences, a modern complex of public buildings in central Valencia, for the prayer meeting and festive conclusion of the Fifth World Meeting of Families.
		On Sunday morning, 9 July 2006, the Holy Father returned to the City of Arts and Sciences.
		On Sunday morning, 9 July, at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, before the final Blessing of Holy Mass at which he had presided, the Holy Father spoke to the faithful prior to leading the recitation of the Angelus.
	www.ewtn.com /library/PAPALDOC/b16valspnind.HTM (359 words)

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