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...The rich are cordoning themselves off in new suburbs, diluting what should be the creative alchemy of a great city....
...“I liked the idea that the children would be on their own in an urban environment that was shaped, constructed, partly destroyed by past generations.”...
...Urban Alchemy has around 45 people on the ground here at any given time....
...“That’s the dreamy part because the purple liquid and the flame makes it really feel like alchemy,” she says. “It puts me in a zen state which allows what needs to come out....
...“Tech just became those other industries — or they became tech,” is how Bowles explained the alchemy....
...The process of breaking down these batteries and repurposing them is known as “urban mining”....
...Then workers would have the best of both worlds: the alchemy of face-to-face meetings plus the flexibility to help with parenting or caring at home....
...The web has also demolished the protection once offered by strict urban planning rules....
...“It’s a very raw material – the result of the subtle alchemy between water, earth and fire,” she says....
...The designer would say that this isn’t necessarily his doing – it’s the alchemy of nature – but nonetheless someone has to throw all the ingredients into the mix to create those moments....
...The housing bubble was particularly fascinating not only because of its disastrous end, but because of the way in which Wall Street generated the safe dollar-denominated assets the world wanted by alchemy...
...Worst of all, the very thing that distinguishes New York City and accounts for its unique alchemy — its density — is what makes it so vulnerable to the pandemic....
...Others might call it alchemy. Lucas, whose Chicago School housed the high priesthood of mathiness, won a Nobel Prize for his rational expectations theory....
...The contrary is true: using and combining data to create further insight promises an infinite loop of opportunity — a modern form of alchemy....
...In Manchester’s urban arcadia, boundaries were felicitously shaky. “The gap between audience and stage was just a hop, skip and a jump....
...They are forms which require chemistry, and alchemy, and energy. “There are no perfect pots,” he says. “One just gets more practised. And there are no perfect social conditions....
...As fashion and as commerce, the old alchemy of high mixed with low, artwork with ordinary object, outsider with establishment still works its magic....
...It’s true, the retail experience has a certain alchemy that cannot be replicated online. Her steadfast refusal to “engage” has been admirable, if not always cost-effective....
...A complacent, mainly urban liberal class, has been undone by a revolt. Nationalists are in charge of Washington and London now....
...Since June, the Labour party has been trying to straddle two horses: appealing to its pro-Brexit working class voters and anti-Brexit urban supporters....
...This alchemy is elaborated most spectacularly by the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, who also wrote Shetty’s curatorial statement....
...In drawing lessons, he notes that the promise made by banks to turn illiquid and risky assets into liquid and safe liabilities is, like other forms of alchemy, fraudulent....
...The prospectus reveals the financial alchemy of making money out of sand. The land was deemed a $103m “in-kind” contribution to the partnership with sukuk investors....
...Today, the art world’s bittersweet alchemy of economics, aesthetics and social politics has ushered Mohamedi on to the world stage. She has already popped up in group shows at MoMA and Documenta....
...Missoni, meanwhile, chose as its heroine “the dynamic protagonist of city life”, which sounds a bit like an urban legend but wove a spell of its own....
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