Centres

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

Few people get knocked down and run over in the pedestrian precincts which have been created in most city centres.

Over the next fifteen years, architects, planners and community developers will work together to transform 346 acres of industrial wasteland into 6,500 homes, two shopping centres, a marina, a primary school and college, and parkland.

The Waterfront's success could mean that other cities soon follow, creating areas that offer people a new kind of city living, with all the benefits and none of the stress, noise and pollution of crowded centres.

The city of Toronto has about 160 community recreation centres, many of which include swimming pools, skating and curling rinks, gymnasiums, weight rooms and meeting rooms.

But good AEneas (for a father's care / no rest allows him) to the ships sends down / Achates, to Ascanius charged to bear / the welcome news, and bring him to the town. / The father's fondness centres on the son.

Zurich is considered one of the world's most important centres of finance.

"I s'pose you've been to Christminster, Physician?" "I have—many times," replied the long thin man. "That's one of my centres."

All the culture that is most truly native centres round things which even when they are communal are not official – the pub, the football match, the back garden, the fireside and the 'nice cup of tea'.

Kolkata has an unfortunate reputation for being home to fraudulent call centres.