Parc des Bastions is a green paradise amidst the city concrete.

In a heartbeat, the damage was done.

Instead of cohesion we have demolition of houses and bars.

There are a series of buildings that are exempt from paying the IBI tax.

He went to Rome, where he saw a lot of old buildings.

However, they were quickly starved into surrender by the Scots.

The building was to be torn down so that a vestibule could be built in its place.

Among the damaged structures were 187 brick temples in the ancient capital of Bagan.

Similar to many other gentrifying cities, demolition and displacement are becoming more and more a common practice.

In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List.

In January 2007, Jobs was denied the right to demolish the property by a court decision.

The townspeople have pointed out that this is the fourth home that has been demolished, and that the last one was removed in July.

A massive Russian flag hangs on one of these 18 storey buildings this building has been totally handed over for use by our team.

Now Georgian president Saakahsvili has finished the demolition of a WWII memorial honoring his countrymen (and countrywomen) who gave their lives in fighting the Nazis.

5. Emphasizes the need for the parties to speedily resolve all remaining issues in the Gaza Strip, including the removal of rubble

In one case the only contact the woman sufferer could think of was pulling down a garden shed in the 1970s.

In a blog post on Vkontakte, Russia's most popular social network, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin justified the demolitions on the grounds of public safety

The other suspended the decree of expropriation. According to locals, however, a man thought to be named Luis Enrique García, carrying only the decree of expropriation in his hands, led the demolition works nonetheless.

Some even lost the land they had lived upon for generations the top soil simply slid away, leaving behind hard rock and rubble.

The governor of the Imereti region, Mikheil Chogovadze, was dismissed as a result, and several other arrests, including the technical director of the company responsible for demolishing the monument, were also made.

Since the new plant and the adjacent facilities will be constructed near the current dump and require more space, up to 100 informally built houses in the immediate proximity to it will need to be demolished.

As I write this under a vine in my vegetable garden, I look west across wooded hills and cannot see another building.

The destruction of the mosque was seen as the most serious rupture between Hindus and Muslims since India became independent in 1947.

Americans appreciate this as well as anyone hence the carefully stage manged toppling of Saddam Hussein in Firdos square in Baghdad in 2003.

On 13 November this year, the forcible demolition of a private building, ordered by the Chengdu local government, led to the suicide of one of its owners, Tang Fuzhen, who poured gasoline and set fire on herself.

September 13 A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks the city of Kalamata in southern Greece, killing 20 people, injuring 80 and completely destroying one fifth of the city.

The square does not, contrary to popular opinion, get its name from the colour of its bricks or from the red of communism, but instead comes from an old Russian word for beautiful .

Destructions of architecture brought about by World War II During World War II, the island was bombed by the Luftwaffe, resulting in the destruction of most of the city's buildings, including its market (αγορά) and Hotel Bella Venezia.

As Balkan Insight reported, the demolition took place while Macedonia celebrated the country's biggest national holiday, Ilinden, when the city is half deserted as many residents traditionally go on vacation.

Among the most important new structures were an odeon, a stadium, and an expansive palace on the Palatine Hill known as the Flavian Palace, which was designed by Domitian's master architect Rabirius.

As part of plans to decentralize government, a Soviet era statue to hundreds of thousands of Georgians who died during World War II was set to be demolished in Georgia's second largest city of Kutaisi to make room for the construction of a new parliament building in the hope of spurring regional economic development.