If you think of medieval cities, medieval cities the boroughs all have the names of the guilds and professions that lived there.

The Great Firewall of China

In the Ming Dynasty (early 15th century) the centre of Beijing was the Forbidden City.

But within the walls...

By mid century we'll be about 80 percent urban, and that's mostly in the developing world, where that's happening.

In the old Roman custom, the dead were never buried within the walls.

Rhodes spent his days exploring the Victorian new castle, going through the archives and studying the manor's many treasures and curios, such as the mounted hyena heads on the walls and bottles that had spent centuries in the moat.

Over the centuries, landslides have been burying this ancient town

Spain In the late 1980s, Santiago de Compostela experienced a mass exodus caused by the decay and deterioration of the medieval city's historic city centre.

It's not the Middle Ages anymore, it's the 21st century.

By mid century, we're going to have about eight billion perhaps more people living in cities or within a day's travel of one.

Abad Baru bagi Timur Tengah

It's positively medieval.

Behold the walls of Jericho.

Municipalities which already adopted or have in course of adoption Agenda 21,

And I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name and it shall not be cut off. (Isaiah 56 5)

Very dowdy. That woman down on rampart street.

Your legions are still in camp outside the city walls?

This is not the Middle Ages.

You'd kind of have to take Century City out, but it could fit in there.

The ancestor of the modern corporation, the City of London Corporation, existed in the 12th century.

Our Virtual Middle Ages

(b) Sustainable human settlements in an urbanizing world, also incorporating the monitoring of chapter 7 of Agenda 21

Creating in each municipality a Focal Point as a credible entity and a facilitator for Agenda 21.

So he blew the wall open.

threshold of the twenty first century, adopted in

A medieval witch's specialty... a wind storm.

But that international city must balance five centuries of imbalance.

I call my agent and say, I've got a wall to cover.

China is ready to work with all other countries to make the twenty first century truly a century of development for all.

In contrast, we have General Tso's Chicken, which actually started in New York City in the early 1970s, as I was also starting in the university in New York City in the early 1970s, so ...

Along with the Arab dominated trade in gold, ivory and slaves, several important cities appeared along the coast of Mozambique during the ninth and tenth century.

One big difference in the villages, as opposed to the urban slums there were more girls than boys who came to the kiosk.

It's the Middle Ages. Highway robbers.

A new century is a new century.

b. Contribute to create an Open City UNDESA award dedicated to municipalities engaged in the implementation of Agenda 21.

You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself.

The wall has done much to disfigure the city.

It may change this century.

A very fashionable name for English cats in the Middle Ages.

You're stuck in the Middle Ages and deny the evidence.

Famously, Rome had about a million citizens by the first century A.D.

The wall has resulted in the disfigurement of the hills and towns of Palestine.

From here the walls of Sodom and Gomorrah are white.

The Bank also sponsored regional thematic conferences and seminars dealing with urban land management and urban finance, including the global conference on urban finance held in September 1995 in Washington, D.C. The World Bank also organized the Habitat dialogue on finance and cities in the twenty first century during the Conference.