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Act of Consolidation, 1854
The Act of Consolidation, more formally known as the act of February 2, 1854 (P.L. 21, No. 16), is legislation of the Pennsylvania General Assembly that created the consolidated City and County of Philadelphia, expanding the city's territory to the entirety of Philadelphia County and dissolving the other municipal authorities in the county.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.
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Avant-garde
The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.
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Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an art museum that was founded in 1914.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Boroughs of New York City
New York City encompasses five county-level administrative divisions called boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.
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Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1848.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a century-old American research group on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C. It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Cardinal direction
The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions north, east, south, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, E, S, and W. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the clockwise direction of rotation from north and west being directly opposite east.
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Center City, Philadelphia
Center City includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
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Central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.
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Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.
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Central, Minneapolis
The Central community in Minneapolis is located in the central part of the city, consisting of 6 smaller official neighborhoods, and includes Downtown Minneapolis, the central business district.
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Charlotte center city
Charlotte Center City (commonly referred to as Uptown) is the central area of Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Chelsea, Manhattan
Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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Chicago Loop
The Loop is the central business district or downtown area of Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago River
The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).
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City centre
A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart of a city, especially those in the Western world.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
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Concentric zone model
The concentric zone model, also known as the Burgess model or the CCD model, is one of the earliest theoretical models to explain urban social structures.
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Dance hall
Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for dancing.
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Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States.
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Detroit Public Library
The Detroit Public Library is the second largest library system in the U.S. state of Michigan by volumes held (after the University of Michigan Library) and is the 21st largest library system (and the fourth-largest public library system) in the United States.
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Downtown (Petula Clark song)
"Downtown" is a song composed by Tony Hatch which, as recorded by Petula Clark in 1964, became an international hit, reaching number one in Billboard Hot 100 and number two in UK Singles Chart.
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Downtown Albuquerque
Downtown Albuquerque is the central business district of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta is the central business district of Georgia, United States.
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Downtown Austin
Downtown Austin is the central business district of Austin, Texas.
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Downtown Baltimore
Downtown Baltimore is the central business district of Baltimore traditionally bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the west, Mt. Royal Avenue to the north, President Street to the east and the Inner Harbor area to the south.
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Downtown Boston
Downtown Boston is the central business district of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Downtown Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City, United States (following Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn.
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Downtown Calgary
Downtown Calgary is a region of central Calgary, Alberta, it contains the second largest concentration of head offices in Canada.
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Downtown Cleveland
Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of Cleveland, Ohio.
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Downtown Columbus, Ohio
Downtown Columbus is the Central Business District of Columbus, Ohio, United States.
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Downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District (CBD) of Dallas, Texas USA, located in the geographic center of the city.
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Downtown Denver
Downtown Denver is the main financial, commercial, and entertainment district in Denver, Colorado.
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Downtown Detroit
Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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Downtown Edmonton
Downtown Edmonton is the central business district of Edmonton, Alberta.
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Downtown El Paso
Downtown El Paso is the central business district of El Paso, Texas, United States.
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Downtown Fort Worth
Downtown Fort Worth is the central business district of Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
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Downtown Halifax
Downtown Halifax is the city centre of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Downtown Houston
Downtown is the largest business district in Houston, Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69.
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Downtown Indianapolis
Downtown Indianapolis is the central business district of Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
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Downtown Jacksonville
Downtown Jacksonville is the historic core and central business district (CBD) of Jacksonville, Florida USA.
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Downtown Kansas City
Downtown Kansas City is the central business district (CBD) of Kansas City, Missouri and the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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Downtown Las Vegas
Downtown Las Vegas (commonly abbreviated as DTLV) is the central business district and historic center of Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 58,000 people.
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Downtown Louisville
Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area.
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Downtown Memphis, Tennessee
Downtown Memphis, Tennessee is the central business district of Memphis, Tennessee and is located along the Mississippi River between Interstate 40 to the north, Interstate 55 to the south and I-240 to the east, where it abuts Midtown Memphis.
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Downtown Montreal
Downtown Montreal is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Downtown music
Downtown music is a subdivision of American music, closely related to experimental music.
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Downtown New Orleans
In New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, downtown has historically referred to neighborhoods along the Mississippi River, downriver (roughly northeast) from Canal Street – including the French Quarter, Tremé, Faubourg Marigny, Bywater, the 9th Ward, and other neighborhoods.
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Downtown Oakland
Downtown Oakland is the central business district of Oakland, California, United States; roughly bounded by both the Oakland Estuary and Interstate 880 on the southwest, Interstate 980 on the northwest, Grand Avenue on the northeast, and Lake Merritt on the east.
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Downtown Oklahoma City
Downtown Oklahoma City is located at the geographic center of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area and contains the principal, central business district of the region.
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Downtown Ottawa
Downtown Ottawa (Centre-Ville d'Ottawa) is the central area of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Downtown Phoenix
Downtown Phoenix is the central business district (CBD) of the City of Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
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Downtown Portland, Oregon
Downtown Portland, the city center of Portland, Oregon, United States, is located on the west bank of the Willamette River.
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Downtown Sacramento
Downtown Sacramento is the central business district of the City of Sacramento.
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Downtown San Antonio
Downtown San Antonio is the central business district of San Antonio, Texas, United States.
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Downtown San Diego
Downtown San Diego, also referred to as Centre City, is the city center of San Diego, California, the eighth largest city in the United States.
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Downtown San Jose
Downtown San Jose is the central business district of San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley.
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Downtown Seattle
Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington.
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Downtown St. John's
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Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the city centre and main central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Downtown Vancouver
Downtown Vancouver is the southeastern portion of the peninsula in the north-central part of the City of Vancouver.
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Downtown Victoria
Downtown Victoria is a neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia that acts as the commercial and entertainment hub of the city and surrounding region.
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Downtown Wichita
Downtown Wichita is the central business district of Wichita, Kansas, United States.
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Downtown Winnipeg
Downtown Winnipeg is an area of the city located near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
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Downtown, Washington, D.C.
Downtown is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., as well as a colloquial name for the central business district in the northwest quadrant of the city.
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Edge city
"Edge city" is an American term for a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown (or central business district) in what had previously been a residential or rural area.
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Edge City
Edge City is an American syndicated comic strip created by the husband and wife team of Terry and Patty LaBan.
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Elevator
An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Equitable Building (Manhattan)
The Equitable Building is a 40-storySmith, Caleb.
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Financial district
A financial district is the central area in some large cities where banks, insurance companies and other large corporations have head offices.
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Financial District, Boston
The Financial District of Boston is located in Downtown Boston, near Government Center and Chinatown.
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Financial District, Manhattan
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, also known as FiDi, is a neighborhood located on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, where the City of New York itself originated in 1624.
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Financial District, San Francisco
The Financial District is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, that serves as its main central business district.
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Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story steel-framed landmarked building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, which is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper.
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Flatiron District
The Flatiron District is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, named after the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
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Frank Winfield Woolworth
Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919), also known as Frank W. Woolworth or F. W. Woolworth, was an American entrepreneur and the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores) or dimestores, which featured a low-priced selection of merchandise.
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French Quarter
The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré ("Old Square") or Vieux Carré Historic District, is the oldest section of the City of New Orleans.
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Gramercy Park
Gramercy ParkSometimes misspelled as Grammercy is the name of both a small, fenced-in private parkKugel, Seth, The New York Times, July 23, 2006.
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Great Depression in the United States
The Great Depression began in August 1929, when the United States economy first went into an economic recession.
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Greater Downtown Miami
Downtown Miami is an urban city center, based around the Central Business District of Miami, Florida, United States.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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High Street
High Street (or the High Street, also High Road) is a metonym for the concept (and frequently the street name) of the primary business street of towns or cities, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations.
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Inner city
The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis.
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Interstate Highway System
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.
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J. C. Penney
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Kmart
Kmart Corporation (simply known as Kmart and stylized as kmart) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States.
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Loews Corporation
Loews Corporation is an American conglomerate headquartered in New York City.
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Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California.
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Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly located between the Bowery and the East River, and Canal Street and Houston Street.
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Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in the City of New York, which itself originated at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1624, at a point which now constitutes the present-day Financial District.
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Main Street
Main Street is a generic phrase used to denote a primary retail street of a village, town or small city in many parts of the world.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Massachusetts Historical Society
The Massachusetts Historical Society is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history.
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McGill University
McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.
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Michigan Avenue (Chicago)
Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago which runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid.
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Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan, or Midtown, represents the central lengthwise portion of the borough and island of Manhattan in New York City.
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Minimal music
Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials.
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Modern dance
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance, primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Movie palace
A movie palace (or picture palace in the United Kingdom) is any of the large, elaborately decorated movie theaters built between the 1910s and the 1940s.
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Movie theater
A movie theater/theatre (American English), cinema (British English) or cinema hall (Indian English) is a building that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fifth largest museum in the United States.
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Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is a history and art museum in New York City, New York.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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New Orleans Central Business District
The Central Business District (CBD) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
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New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library located in New York City at the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan, founded in 1804 as New York's first museum.
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Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children.
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Nightclub
A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.
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North
North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Off-Off-Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway refers to theatrical productions in New York City that began as part of an anti-commercial and experimental or avant-garde movement of drama and theatre.
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Performance art
Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.
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Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born Sally Olwen Clark, 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress and composer whose career spans seven decades.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Philadelphia City Hall
Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of government for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County is the most populous county in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of 2017, Philadelphia County was home to an estimated population of 1,580,863 residents. The county is the second smallest county in Pennsylvania by land area. Philadelphia County is one of the three original counties, along with Chester and Bucks counties, created by William Penn during November 1682. Since 1854, the county has been coterminous with the City of Philadelphia, which also serves as its seat of government. Philadelphia County is part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (Combined Statistical Area, known as the Delaware Valley, located along the lower Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, within the Northeast megalopolis. Philadelphia County is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valley, the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States, with a population of 7.2 million.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.
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Plat
In the United States, a plat (plan or cadastral map) is a map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.
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Post–World War II economic expansion
The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the postwar economic boom, the long boom, and the Golden Age of Capitalism, was a period of strong economic growth beginning after World War II and ending with the 1973–75 recession.
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Postmodern dance
Postmodern dance is a 20th century concert dance form.
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.
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Redlining
In the United States, redlining is the systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices.
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Setback (architecture)
A setback, sometimes called step-back, is a step-like recession in a wall.
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Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than approximately.
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Slum clearance
Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal strategy used to transform low income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.
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Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.
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South
South is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points.
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South Bronx
The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx.
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Standard State Zoning Enabling Act
"A Standard State Zoning Enabling Act" (SZEA) was a model law for U.S. states to enable zoning regulations in their jurisdictions.
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Steel frame
Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal ibeam-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame.
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Suburb
A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.
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Telephone
A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
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Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector or service sector is the third of the three economic sectors of the three-sector theory.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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Tony Hatch
Anthony Peter Hatch (born 30 June 1939), credited as pen name Tony Hatch, Fred Nightingale and Mark Anthony, is an English composer for musical theatre and television.
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Tram
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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Upper Manhattan
Upper Manhattan denotes the most northern region of the New York City Borough of Manhattan.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.
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Urbanization
Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.
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W. T. Grant
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White flight
White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.
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White-collar worker
In many countries (such as Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States), a white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Zoning
Zoning is the process of dividing land in a municipality into zones (e.g. residential, industrial) in which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited.
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1916 Zoning Resolution
The 1916 Zoning Resolution in New York City was the first citywide zoning code in the US.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown
