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 <div class="body"><p>Come the conclusion,Toms Outlet, the Ferrari duo sandwiched Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen in   second, the Finn finishing 0.152secs adrift of Brazilian Massa.</p><p>As for Mercedes, who were one-two at the end of FP1 with Nico Rosberg ahead of   Lewis Hamilton, the duo had to settle for fourth and seventh in FP2.</p><p>Both remarked of high degradation with the soft Pirelli tyres - a trend across   most cars - leaving Rosberg, who gave Mercedes their only win in three years   here last season, nearly half a second down on Massa.</p><p>As for Hamilton, who complained bitterly at one point about his tyres falling   away,Toms Sale, the 27-year-old Briton finished 1.156secs adrift.</p><p>Splitting the Mercedes pairing were Mark Webber in his Red Bull, with the   Australian three quarters of a second off the pace, and McLaren's Jenson   Button who was a second down.</p><p>The Woking-based marque have worked tirelessly over the past two weeks to   rectify the faults on a car that started abysmally off the pace in   Australia,Toms Shoes Sale, and to a lesser extent in Malaysia,lululemon outlet.</p><p>Sporting a new exhaust and sidepods, along with many other bits of bodywork,   McLaren appear to be closing the gap on their rivals.</p><p>For team-mate Sergio Perez,This is not an 'ac, though, both sessions were ones to forget as he   ended FP1 by breaking the front wing with a run across the gravel at the   entrance to the pit lane.</p><p>Whilst just 15 minutes into FP2 he spun his car, again through a gravel trap,   before damaging the rear wing against a tyre wall.</p><p>The Mexican eventually finished 11th quickest, just behind Red Bull's   three-times world champion Sebastian Vettel who had Force India duo Adrian   Sutil and Paul Di Resta ahead of him in eighth and ninth,Toms Shoes.</p><p>Di Resta finished 1,lululemon outlet.255secs behind Massa, and only 0.081secs behind Sutil as   the Silverstone-based marque again appear strong.</p><p>Sadly for Marussia's Max Chilton, the young Briton suffered an oil pressure   problem that twice ground him to a halt out on track.</p><p>Chilton had only completed four laps when the issue first appeared, and   although the team retrieved the car and got him back out, he was quickly   told to pull over again with a repeat of the concern,Nike Air Max UK. </p><p><strong>Second Practice: </strong>1 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 1min 35.340secs, 2 Kimi   Raikkonen (Fin) Lotus 1:35.492,lululemon outlet canada, 3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 1:35.755, 4   Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes 1:35.819,Toms Shoes, 5 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:36.092,   6 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren 1:36.432, 7 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) Mercedes   1:36.496, 8 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India 1:36.514, 9 Paul Di Resta (Gbr)   Force India 1:36.595, 10 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1:36.791, 11 Sergio   Perez (Mex) McLaren 1:36.940, 12 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Lotus 1:36.963, 13   Esteban Gutierrez (Mex) Sauber 1:37.103, 14 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Toro   Rosso 1:37.206,'I enjoy the fact th, 15 Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra) Toro Rosso 1:38.127, 16 Valtteri   Bottas (Fin) Williams 1:38.185,5300br  0008789103, 17 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Sauber 1:38.211, 18   Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams 1:38.276, 19 Jules Bianchi (Fra) Marussia   1:38,lululemon outlet online.725, 20 Giedo van der Garde (Hol) Caterham 1:39.271, 21 Charles Pic   (Fra) Caterham 1:39.814, 22 Max Chilton (Gbr) Marussia 1:43.227 </p><p>Edited by Vicki Hodges</p></div>
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+<div id="article-body-blocks">    ,lululemon outlet canada<p>"Cities are our greatest creation," states PD Smith in his introduction to this richly packed, colourful and well-written primer on the role the city plays in our lives. From the outset he reminds us: "Today, for the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population – 3.3 billion people – ."</p><p>In keeping with the spirit of the city itself – more a vital and unpredictable organism than a rationally planned machine for living in – "As in a real city," says Smith, "you can follow any number of pathways through this book. And don't worry about getting lost. Some say it's the only way really to experience a city,8-425038-201br  25,Toms Outlet." Smith is right when he talks about getting lost, for there is always another city alley to take, doorway to enter, park to stroll through or some overlooked or even forbidden quarter of a city to sidle through. The greatest cities are inexhaustible,lululemon canada, and not least because they are constantly changing. And when a city stops evolving, its lifeblood freezes and it becomes – as history proves – little or nothing more than a museum showcasing its own past or a cluster of haunting ruins.</p><p>And, yet, ambitious city builders, from ancient Sumeria to Shanghai today, have nearly always thought of the city as a rational and thoroughly planned ideal brought to life in avenues and public squares arranged as straight as a die. One of Smith's brief and illuminating chapters looks at , spinning through notions conjured by Plato, Vitruvius, Leonardo,and $2 chief execut, Thomas More,lululemon outlet canada, Campanella, Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier. As a counterpoint,Toms Shoes Outlet, he also cites Italo Calvino's Marco Polo, who in that enchanting book <em>Invisible Cities</em> tells Kublai Khan: "Cities, like dreams, are made of desire and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else."</p><p>The city, then, is never as rational as its founders, patrons, architects, planners, bureaucrats and engineers might have wished it to be. Truly great cities have always been a heady mix of the planned and the unplanned, the rational and the irrational, the dreamlike and the matter-of-fact. A great city today might have a magnificent core of grand central streets, stirring architecture, a comprehensive public transport system running like clockwork, secret sewers going about their sulphurous business untiringly, sane governance, bright schools, comforting hospitals, and all of these underpinned by healthy commerce and adorned by a confident culture. And, yet, the same city would be woven through with the unpredictable worlds of fashion, music, art,Toms Shoes Sale, cuisine, carnivals, hobbies, cults, clubs.</p><p>So behind the walls of the city – Smith has a chapter on these – there is darkness, graffiti, street language, uprisings, religions, ghettos and slums, cathedral-like railway stations, traffic, trade, bazaars, malls, museums, red-light districts and so much else. Smith packs the blood, guts, underbelly and driving forces of the archetypal city into chapters as densely packed as the streetscapes of Manhattan or Hong Kong. He reminds us that, today, such dense cities are surrounded by ever-expanding and mind-numbingly banal outer-suburbia; as a consequence – in the words of the theorist of renewable energies, Peter Droege – the promiscuously sprawling 21st-century city is "a fossil-fuel construct in search of rapid restructuring".</p><p>Smith's lively urban tutorial is framed between chapters and the future of the city. I was touched to see him so confident that the , as this brought back memories of my getting to this antique city buried in scorching desert sands a few months before George W Bush and Tony Blair launched their assault on the venerable, if much younger,lululemon outlet canada, city of Baghdad,lululemon outlet. I am still researching the world's earliest cities and half expect to find examples older than Eridu. But what Eridu taught me in a direct way, as its hot sands slipped through my hands, was that cities are indeed organisms: they are born, mature,lululemon outlet, grow old and sometimes become irrelevant,Toms Shoes Sale.</p><p>The stuff of lofty intentions and grubby backstreet life, the city represents much of our restless and contradictory natures. "In this dynamic, cosmopolitan space," Smith writes, "lies the wellspring of our creativity as a species. The greatest cities nurture and stimulate ideas in science and the arts that are the very heart of human civilisation. For this reason, sustainable, humane and well-governed cities are our best hope for the future."</p><p>Amen. Although, Smith might have added that to keep them alive, and healthy and "civilised", we will have to wrestle with the forces of globalised banality threatening to turn cities into homogenous and mindless machines for unsustainable consumption. The sorcery of cities should not be lost; Smith's ebullient guidebook helps to remind us why,Steve JobsSteve Jobs.</p><p>? Jonathan Glancey's <em>Nagaland</em> is published by Faber.</p>    </div>

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