The people I meet in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks, they don't expect government to solve all their problems.

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The Gigapixl Project, meantime, is using large-format film cameras to create a highly detailed coast-to-coast portrait of North America, focusing on cities, parks and monuments.

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Councils were in part responsible for the construction of the ugly shopping malls and multi-storey car parks which have so scarred the centres of many cities and towns.

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While urban railway bridges, parks and pavements may not be the first image you see, many cities have been quick to embrace the foraging trend.

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Imagining hydrogen-powered cars and buses in Yosemite and Yellowstone is a little more difficult, given the unpredictable snowfall and the fact that visitors to U.S. parks drive in from cities where gasoline remains the norm.

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George W Bush proposes combating sprawl by "revitalising inner cities" and reclaiming industrial, or "brownfield" sites for parks, recreation or other purposes, to ease the pressure to expand the suburbs.

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Mobile products using SiRFstarV and SiRFusion will be able to make a seamless transition between outdoor and indoor navigation as people make their way through countries, cities, neighbourhoods, parks, shopping malls, convention centres, airports, train stations or other large structures while continuing to utilise a variety of location-enabled services and applications.

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The things that make our cities work and our people go -- transit and public safety, safe housing, sanitation, parks, recreation -- all these tasks fall to you.

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Apart from libraries and maybe a few youth centers, most cities aren't in the business of offering cultural services, but parks have always been central, and golf historically has been a major part of that.

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