"The city can survive without them, but not as it was."
These efforts form part of a social safety net that no city can survive without.
The city survived two fires during the 16th century (1522 and 1577).
But from an economic standpoint, he said, the city would survive and almost certainly thrive.
If the city survived, that building might have to be replaced.
"And without the music, I don't know how this city will survive."
American cities can't survive as we know them if they remain so violent.
A voice-over talks about how the city has survived going through "hell and back."
After the land was lost, the city of Reimerswaal survived on a small island for a while.
The city survived being attacked by the French in 1794.