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Dragonette - Live In This City (Official Video)

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Director: Wendy Morgan Executive Producer: Jannie McInnes Producers: Alastair Waithe, Pamela Crodeiro Production Company Believe Media/Untitled Films Director of Photography: Michael Leblanc Editor: Izzy Ehrlich At Rooster Post Production: RedLab Second official single off Bodyparts, available now: smarturl.it/dragonettebodyparts

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Living in the city is living in a place close to everything, market, pharmacy, restaurant. In addition to this closeness to everything, we also suffer from assaults and child prostitution. This affects me so I can not take them all off the street. I can not bring it to my house and give a clean bed, a hot bath, food and so on. And for raiders and dealers, I'd also like to put them all in a rehab clinic.

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For thousands of years, pre-humans and humans lived nomadic lives. They moved from place to place, hunting wild game and gathering plants, roots, seeds and berries. Around 7,000 B.C.E., people started settling in one place. Mesopotamia, which lies between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now Iraq, was one of the first settlements. It started out as a small village, probably with a few families. The people built irrigation canals so they would have water for their crops. They built homes and temples. They began writing and keeping records.

Great cities grew. When people live in a city, they tend to become divided into specific groups. Some people are farmers, others are doctors or laborers. People can also be divided by how much money or education they have. These divisions can make life easier because everyone is doing his part. They can also cause conflicts and wars.

Fun Facts About City Life for Kids

Cities must have infrastructures. An infrastructure is the underlying services and support needed by a city. It includes roads, access to clean water, waste disposal and medical care.

People in villages began trading with other villages. The villagers became wealthy and the villages grew into cities. Today, people still trade with one another.

Nomads had no wealth or possessions beyond the basic necessities. Once they settled down, they gathered wealth. Bandits tried to steal their wealth. Soon, cities were surrounded by great walls to keep out the bandits.

Ancient cities grew over time. They had winding streets and confusing layouts. Modern cities are usually planned on a rectangular grid of streets.

City Life Vocabulary

1. Nomad: someone who wanders from place to place without a permanent home

2. Settlement: a place where people gather and live

3. Irrigation: watering crops

4. Canal: man-made river or stream

5. Conflict: disagreement, fighting

6. Infrastructure: underlying support system

All About City Life Video for Kids

Watch this awesome Life in the City video for kids about city life vs country life:

City Life Q&A

Question: Is it better to live in a city or in the country?

Answer: Both the city and the country have potential benefits and drawbacks. Life in the city is easier to find a job and there are more choices about what type of job to do. Cities usually offer good schools, medical care and cultural activities. But, they can be crowded and expensive to live in. Crime is sometimes a problem. Living in the country is quieter and simpler. Country living usually costs less. But there are fewer jobs. It might be hard to find a good doctor or school.

Enjoyed the Easy Geography for Kids all about City Life info? Take the FREE & fun all about City Life quiz and download FREE all about City Life worksheet for kids. For lengthy info click here.

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For thousands of years, pre-humans and humans lived nomadic lives. They moved from place to place, hunting wild game and gathering plants, roots, seeds and berries. Around 7,000 B.C.E., people started settling in one place. Mesopotamia, which lies between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now Iraq, was one of the first settlements.

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Key to the City: A New Creative Time Project by Paul Ramirez Jonas

Those New York City public-art wizards at Creative Time have done it again. Ever since the early 1970s, this excellent art collective has been commissioning, curating and creating innovative, interactive projects that use our beautiful city not only as an ideal backdrop, but also as an integral part of the pieces. Creative Time's newest and perhaps most ambitious project to date, Paul Ramirez Jonas's Key to the City, is going on right now, in Times Square and at various locations throughout the five boroughs, and we love pretty much everything about it.

The core concept here is that everyone-even, and especially, you!-is worthy of New York City's highest honor, a Key to the City, a symbolic award usually reserved for action heroes and visiting dignitaries. In this piece, Jonas is saying all New Yorkers are heroes of the everyday sort-raising children, being of service to others, getting through life with kindness and love-and all visitors to the fair city qualify as dignitaries. Best of all, this key actually works, and can be used to open up secret doors and garden gates and mysterious boxes in locations throughout the city!

To bestow a Key to the City upon a friend or loved one-and to get one bestowed upon you-simply show up at the special ceremonial Commons in the heart of Times Square. There are lots of young Creative Time volunteers to steer you through the process, but the first thing you need to do is get on line. They've been handing out some 2,000 keys a day so far, and you should plan on at least a 30-minute wait to grant and receive yours. While you wait a volunteer will hand you a booklet, in which you declare why you think your partner deserves a Key. It can be any reason-she's a great mother, he's an amazing kisser, she built a cabinet, he saved a kitten... whatever you want-but you will need to fill in something. Then, after receiving your keys at the booth, the two of you head down a red carpet to the ceremony area, where you read your reason aloud to your partner, and officially hand over the key.

Next it's time to put the key to use. In your booklet you'll find the 25 locations that can only be unlocked by holders of the key. Among the Key to the City locks we're excited about opening: Alexander Hamilton's tomb at Trinity Church, a normally off-limits pedestrian pathway across the George Washington Bridge, a hidden door next George Washington's portrait at the Brooklyn Museum, and a secret room at the Tortilleria Nixtamal in Queens.

Key to the City Details

You may conduct a key ceremony on weekdays from 2:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., and weekends from 12:00 noon until 8:00 p.m., from now through June 27. Note that the line closes every day at 6:00 p.m. If you can't bring a partner, the volunteers will find another "single" on line with whom you can exchange bestowals. In most cases the keys will work until September 6. The Key to the City Commons is located in Times Square on the central plaza between 43rd and 44th Street. Participation in all of the above is free. For lots more information about everything, please see the Creative Time website.

Posted in NYC Events | Tagged art * creative * key to the city * paul ramirez jonas * time project

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Key to the City: A New Creative Time Project by Paul Ramirez Jonas

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Those New York City public-art wizards at Creative Time have done it again. Ever since the early 1970s, this excellent art collective has been commissioning, curating and creating innovative, interactive projects that use our beautiful city not only as an ideal backdrop, but also as an integral part of the pieces.