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Barcelona
Barcelona , city (1990 pop. 4,738,354), capital of Barcelona prov. and chief city of Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. Economy Situated on a plain between the Llobregat and Besós rivers and lying between mountains and the sea, Barcelona is the second largest city of Spain, its... Read more |
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Adelaide (city)
Adelaide city (1991 pop. 957,480), capital and chief port of South Australia, S Australia, at the mouth of the Torrens River on Gulf St. Vincent. It has automotive, textile, and other industries. Grains, wool, dairy products, wine, and fruit are exported. In the face of declining manufacturing,... Read more |
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Brisbane
Brisbane , city (1991 pop. 1,145,537), capital of Queensland, E Australia, on the Brisbane River above its mouth on Moreton Bay. Brisbane is Australia's third largest city and an administrative, commercial, industrial, and cultural center. It has shipyards, oil refineries, food-processing plants,... Read more |
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Scottsdale
Scottsdale city (1990 pop. 130,069), Maricopa co., central Ariz.; settled in 1895 by Winfield Scott, inc. 1951. It is a resort and retirement center in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Manufacturing includes electronic and transportation equipment, chemicals, plastic products, pharmaceuticals, and... Read more |
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Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg or Ekaterinburg , formerly Sverdlovsk , city (1989 pop. 1,365,000), capital of the Sverdlovsk region and the administrative center of the Ural district, E European Russia, in the eastern foothills of the central Urals, on the Iset River. One of the largest cities of the Urals,... Read more |
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Lilongwe
Lilongwe , city (1994 est. pop. 395,500), S central Malawi, in a fertile agricultural area. The capital of Malawi since 1975, it is an administrative and commercial center. The city was founded in 1947 as an agricultural marketing center. Largely a planned city, government programs in the 1970s and... Read more |
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Kano (Nigeria)
Kano , city (1991 est. pop. 595,000), N Nigeria. It is the trade and shipping center for an agricultural region where cotton, cattle, and about half of Nigeria's peanuts are raised. Kano is the major industrial center of N Nigeria; peanut flour and oil, cotton textiles, steel furniture, processed... Read more |
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Tulsa
Tulsa , city (1990 pop. 367,302), seat of Tulsa co., NE Okla., on the Arkansas River east of its junction with the Cimarron; inc. 1898. It became an inland port with the opening (1971) of the McClellan-Kerr Waterway, a 440-mi (708-km) system linking it with the Gulf of Mexico. Tulsa is an important... Read more |
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Columbia
Columbia . 1 City (1990 pop. 75,883), Howard co., central Md., between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Founded in 1967 and developed by James Rouse, it is one of the largest and most successful American planned cities. It incorporates nine villages around a downtown, along with schools, churches,... Read more |
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Urban Studies
Urban Studies APPROACHES, CONCERNS, AND DISCIPLINES DIFFERENTIATION, DISPLACEMENT, EXCLUSION, AND GLOBALIZATION BIBLIOGRAPHY Urban studies is the umbrella for several disciplines engaged in studies of the city, including sociology, geography, economics, political science, anthropology, urban... Read more |
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Spain: Catalan villages ponder independence
...and Spain's highest court...for Sunday's vote. Organizers say they plan a similar one in Barcelona and other big cities early next year...debate a bill to ban bullfighting. That probably...Spain. ... |
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Spain: Catalan villages vote for independence
...and Spain's highest court...for Sunday's vote. Organizers say they plan a similar one in Barcelona and other big cities early next year...debate a bill to ban bullfighting. That probably...Spain. ... |
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