New urban developments are popping up overnight, along with shopping centers and food chains.
There's hype, there's bluster, there's exaggeration and the unmistakable flicker of a new urban legend.
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Over 200 new urban rail lines are under construction around the world, but most are wholly government-financed.
It is a debate that is not unusual as cities across America debate new urban planning models.
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The world's most expensive brands have huge outlets targeting China's new urban elites.
But a closer look at CityCenter's new urban idyll reveals that it is mostly just another themed take on a casino.
Our new urban agenda will focus on making regions and urban areas more economically competitive, environmentally sustainable, and expand opportunity for everyone.
Developers said that the project would be a lively mixed-use new urban center on the Las Vegas Strip complete with condos, gambling, shopping and hotels.
Equally striking is the new urban sprawl and the spread of slums.
The government and bidding cities would have to raise money to fund new urban transport system, airports, housing projects, hotels, and training and competitive facilities.
The current trip between Chengdu and Mianyang takes approximately 2.5 hours, but the new urban rail will reduce travel time to just 15 to 20 minutes.
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"It doesn't matter whether you give people title deeds or secure tenure, " writes proponent Robert Neuwirth in Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters in a New Urban World.
It is not just a US phenomenon - new urban stars have won the UK's Mercury Music Prize for the best album of the year for the last two years, while even Prince Charles is getting in on the act, hosting an urban music festival in May.
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Meanwhile, London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics -- despite a rumbling row over costs that shows no sign of abating before the torch is lit and complaints that the project has ridden roughshod over the wishes of local residents and businesses -- will ultimately mean the creation of Europe's largest new urban park in 150 years.
With that comes opportunities of great interventions, new projects, rethinking urban transportation, creating vast new park systems, and experimenting with urban design strategies that might improve the quality of urban life.
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In the 1910s-20s, it was entrepreneurs like these who created the automobile and aerospace industries, household technologies for the new, urban nuclear-family middle class, and so forth.
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Since the newer hustlers needed the infrastructure (for example, hustlers taking advantage of oil, railroads, telegraph and electricity to build businesses in the new booming urban centers), they were at the mercy of the bankers.
The policy of bribing businesses to stay in New York, which has been in place for a couple of decades, is a lousy way to create jobs, says Bill Stern, who used to run the New York Urban Development Corporation.
Member Melle Mel paints a picture of how the music came alive in urban New York.
They are expected to receive special mention in a new rural and urban white paper.
The Beijing News says the new rural-urban balance may not necessarily translate into better representation for all.
The new app makes urban mobility even easier and more fun - the declared objective of the smart philosophy.
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In effect, Chongqing and Chengdu have created a new class of urban residents who enjoy the best of both worlds.
Over the past couple of years, the company has experimented with everything from upscale items to new locations in urban areas.
As Eric Hobsbawm has said, terrorism is a new kind of urban pollution, and the pollutant is an insidious and chronic disquiet.
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