The refuge was established as an urban refuge to provide wetland, riparian, and upland habitats for a variety of migratory birds, threatened and endangered species, fish and other resident wildlife.

Cooling systems have made concert halls into urban refuges from the heat and stench of August.

Viola's installation Sanctuary combined video, earth, and redwood trees to create an urban refuge.

In his black-and-white images, the park is a leafy urban refuge, populated by couples of all sexes who linger under towering trees.

The area is adjacent to Frick Park, a 500-acre urban refuge that contains the area's largest urban stream - Nine Mile Run, which has been restored as part of the development.

Highland Park, a 155-acre urban refuge on South Avenue, will be forever changed, said Dean Spong, Director of Parks for Monroe County, which maintains the park.

But the marina, where people have docked boats for more than half a century, is soon to take its place among defunct urban refuges.

The main purpose of the park, however, is to provide an urban refuge, and automobiles on the loop violate that principle.

Newark is the promised land for the Devils and the Nets, a future urban refuge from shared tenancy in the Meadowlands.

Like Mr. Meier's Charles Street tower, each of Mr. Calatrava's apartments is conceived as a self-contained urban refuge, a $30,000,000 prestige object for the global elites.