City

A city is a large and permanent human settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town in general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.

Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, and transportation. The concentration of development greatly facilitates interaction between people and businesses, benefiting both parties in the process, but it also presents challenges to managing urban growth.

A big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities are usually associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas, creating numerous business commuters traveling to urban centers for employment. Once a city expands far enough to reach another city, this region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis. In terms of population, the largest city proper is Shanghai, while the fastest-growing is Dubai.

Origins

There is not enough evidence to assert what conditions gave rise to the first cities. Some theorists have speculated on what they consider suitable pre-conditions and basic mechanisms that might have been important driving forces.

City (disambiguation)

A city is generally an urban settlement with a large population.

City or Cities may also refer to:

Places

  • City (Zürich), an area of the Altstadt district of Zürich, Switzerland
  • City, Vale of Glamorgan, a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
  • City, Powys, a hamlet in Powys, Wales
  • City, Australian Capital Territory, the central business district of Canberra, Australia
  • City of London, the historic core and chief financial district of London, more usually termed "The City" but sometimes written on maps as "City"
  • Literature

  • City (novel), a 1952 novel by Clifford D. Simak
  • City (magazine), a Finnish magazine
  • City (newspaper), an Italian free daily newspaper
  • City Newspaper, a free alternative weekly in Rochester, New York, USA
  • The City (short story), a short story by Ray Bradbury
  • Music

  • City (band), a German rock band
  • The City (band), an American alternative rock band of the 1980s
  • City (Client album), 2004
  • City (Jane Siberry album), 2001
  • City (Strapping Young Lad album)
  • City (Chengshi) Chinese album by Deserts Chang 2009
  • Cities (Anberlin album)

    Cities is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Anberlin, released on February 20, 2007. The songs "Godspeed" and "The Unwinding Cable Car" were released as singles with accompanying music videos. The album debuted at No. 19 on the Billboard 200.

    Production

    The band spent more than 40 days in the studio recording Cities and went back on tour on September 14 after listening to the finished work on the morning of September 13. Lead singer Stephen Christian kept fans posted on progress in the studio through the band's online forums. Anberlin asked fans to message their phone numbers to the band through their message board so they could call the fans and ask for advice on the album. The album was produced by Aaron Sprinkle, who also produced Anberlin's first two albums Blueprints for the Black Market and Never Take Friendship Personal.

    Promotion and pre-release

    In late 2006, the band started previewing content for the album in various ways. The song "Godspeed" was released as a single on December 28, 2006. The band started playing "Hello Alone" at concerts under its working title, "The Lesser Thans." Anberlin also posted individual song previews on MySpace and PureVolume.

    Total order

    In mathematics, a linear order, total order, simple order, or (non-strict) ordering is a binary relation on some set X, which is transitive, antisymmetric, and total (this relation is denoted here by infix ≤). A set paired with a total order is called a totally ordered set, a linearly ordered set, a simply ordered set, or a chain.

    If X is totally ordered under ≤, then the following statements hold for all a, b and c in X:

    Antisymmetry eliminates uncertain cases when both a precedes b and b precedes a. A relation having the property of "totality" means that any pair of elements in the set of the relation are comparable under the relation. This also means that the set can be diagrammed as a line of elements, giving it the name linear.Totality also implies reflexivity, i.e., aa. Therefore, a total order is also a partial order. The partial order has a weaker form of the third condition. (It requires only reflexivity, not totality.) An extension of a given partial order to a total order is called a linear extension of that partial order.

    Chain (caste)

    The Chain, sometimes also pronounced as Chai, are cultivating and fishing caste found in eastern Uttar Pradesh in India. They are a sub-group within the larger Kewat communinity of North India.

    Origin

    The Chai according to some traditions, were a community of Vaishyas, who lost caste, when they took to fishing. Other traditions make them out to be a branch of the Bind caste, and the two communities intermarry, with suggests a common origin. They are now recognized as a sub-group within the Kewat community, and they intermarry with other Kewat clans such as the Banaphar and Dhivar. The majority of the Chai are now cultivators, with a small number still employed as boatmen on the Ganges. They are Hindu, and have customs similar to other Kewat groups.

    The Chai are found mainly in southern and eastern Uttar Pradesh, with concentrations in Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Basti and Faizabad. They speak Awadhi, although most also understand Hindi.

    See also

  • Kewat
  • References

    Chain (Pylon album)

    Chain is the third studio album by American rock band from Athens, Georgia Pylon, released in 1990.

    Track listing

  • Look Alive
  • Catch
  • B-Complex
  • Sugarpop
  • There It Is
  • Springtime
  • This / That
  • Go
  • Crunch
  • Very Right
  • Metal
  • Outside
  • Sloganistic
  • Personnel

  • Michael Lachowski (bass)
  • Curtis Crowe (drums)
  • Randy Bewley (guitar)
  • Vanessa Ellison (vocals)
  • References

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Cities Part 1

    by: Chain

    If I want I could move these walls past my door to a better place
    I feel like there's a wind that could catch all my fingers, fly away
    Past towers of iron and cement touching sky over rivers continents wide
    Onto rolling walls with billions inside, augment my view of life, white cliffs isle's east side
    Blue fields of five waving patiently while I slide into new scapes of change
    Because tomorrow I'll be gone
    And all that now surrounds me will keep moving on
    When I look back what will I see
    Will I have learned a lesson, something I believe
    Give me a journey
    Show me all the colors of life
    Give me the distance
    Show me a way to navigate this world
    Give me a journey
    Show me the road that I should take
    There is no reason
    To be stuck in just one place
    Give me the journey
    Paint with the watercolors of life
    Give me the distance
    To walk the image I create
    Give me the journey
    Show me the road that I should take
    There is no reason
    To be stuck in just one place
    Keys unlock the plain to golden gates that lock again a violent bay
    Where will I land and what will fill my eyes - who will I be each time that I arrive
    Blades of grass cutting lines in the dirt and burnt goodbyes I've seen that star it guides my night
    By sea or land, shifting air, how I move I don't care
    Kiss me soft let me go, breathe in me the place you know - I want to know it too (spoken)
    Out of the window there's a scene I seem to have seen each morning
    White circles, red squares, I bet you don't see this everywhere
    Sure I learn and like and am the things that fill this street
    But could you be content knowing each day these moments just repeat
    So a thought, a pass, a plane, a ticket marked with ink by name
    A taxi pull, a plastic tray folded upright till we leave the runway
    Way above the clouds
    Freedom's pure when you don't hold out
    Watch the weight of all you've known
    Pass right under where you've flown
    And all the things that seemed to matter
    Grow much smaller worn and weathered
    Final approach, we're going down
    Prepare to land on foreign ground
    Way above the clouds
    Freedom's pure when you don't hold out
    Watch the weight of all you've known
    Crash and burn somewhere below
    Crash and burn without a sound
    Off the wing it looks the same till clouds give way
    A new domain beckons me to play
    A new song, new life, new ways to fly
    Grab on, hold tight, It's gonna be a wild ride
    I wanna fly far away
    Wanna see a different place
    Where to go, I don't know
    There is so much left to see - so
    I don't know where to go from here
    I don't know where to roam
    What will I see tomorrow
    Where will I sleep tonight
    Who will I meet tomorrow
    And who will I kiss goodbye
    I don't know where to go from here
    Still don't know who I am
    In spite of all my travels
    In spite of all I've seen
    My mind replays the memories
    And you can't take that from me
    But who knows where to go from here
    And who cares where I go, do I have to know
    Where this road's leading, no place to sleep tonight
    The sun just keeps repeating its pattern in the sky
    Give me the journey
    Paint with all the colors of life
    I'll walk the distance
    To live on the canvas that I stain
    With every memory
    Coursing through my veins
    There's just a brush
    And I am the world it paints
    Tell me where to go from here
    Tell me I can stay so I see you tomorrow
    I'll sleep with you tonight
    If I have to go tomorrow
    Then I kiss your lips goodbye
    I don't want to go from here
    And will you understand when you wake up
    And I'm not there in the middle of the night
    These eyes have yet to see what's under all these skies
    Give me the journey
    Pour out the colors of my life
    I see the distance
    In the mirror passing by
    Give me my journey
    In every shade and stride
    There is no reason
    Why our worlds should collide
    All I've seen and all I've come to know has carved me
    With patterns you can trace to realize our differences
    Are not for the better or the worse they simply just are
    Taught in miles, learned by path, leave it on my epitaph
    Embrace each uncomfortable moment then relax
    The news alive and educates he who doesn't wait
    But packs willing to return to the same space
    For the first time
    I am living
    In colors I'm picking
    But you keep on stalling
    What cha gonna be if your never see
    For the first time
    You're given
    A fresh pallet
    You're mixing
    But you can't keep on slipping
    Back into the place that cha cant leave
    I wanna stay in a place
    And I must appreciate
    Where I've been, what I've seen
    Even though they're different things - and
    Now that we've found common ground
    I have a way to understand
    What you are, how you work
    What defines a peoples worth - now
    I close my eyes, fall asleep
    Knowing I fulfilled my dream
    Now it's your time to fly




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