Some of the hardest hit workers, the authors noted, were employed in fields like construction that suffered severe downturns during the economic crisis or were based in cities that were disproportionately affected by the housing bust.
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The December regulations affected millions of microbloggers using the largest weibo companies, Sina, Sohu and Tencent, which are based in those cities.
The app lists possible meeting locations and the carbon emissions required to get there, based on the cities from which participants are travelling.
The Knight Frank survey, scheduled for release Wednesday, ranks global cities based on a number of variables: economic activity, political power, quality of life, education and influence.
"There's going to have to be new forms of energy, new ways of delivering energy and new forms of infrastructure, " says Warren Karlenzig, president of Common Current, a consulting firm on sustainable cities based in San Anselmo, Calif.
Already, 75 percent of the world's 21 mega-cities are based in the developing world, and by some estimates, 27 of the 33 mega-cities expected to exist by 2015 will be in developing countries.
All in all, five out of the top ten airports were based in East Asian cities.
The division of responsibility for leadership in the fight against discrimination among these four African cities was based precisely on that consideration.
She has established school and community based partnerships in major cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Phoenix, and helped develop curricula widely used in school districts throughout the country.
House prices in Australia rose by 9.5% in the year to the third quarter, based on figures from eight cities.
Knight Frank's latest Global Corporate Lettings Review looked at prime rental demand in the 11 cities, largely based on expatriate demand.
To determine the rankings, we started with a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the continental U.S. Thirty-five candidate cities were chosen based on availability of data and geographic diversity.
Mercer, a consulting firm, publishes a ranking of big cities each year based on an assessment of about 40 factors falling into ten categories (political, economic, cultural, medical, educational, public-service, recreational, consumer-goods, housing and environmental).
Delivery.com, founded in 2004, lets users order from nearly 10, 000 restaurants in 50 cities, while California-based Eat24.com, founded in 2008, covers 20, 000 restaurants in 1, 000 cities across the country.
Several cities made election preparations based on historical patterns and ran short of ballots.
Plus they operate in the big cities that reporters are based in, whereas up until 2010, CCME had no big-city presence (in 2010, CCME entered the airport express bus market).
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He is working on a study on upward mobility in global cities for the London-based Legatum Institute.
One way to convert a smart city atheist could be to help cities make smart technology choices based on their consumer identity.
As another example, the community affairs office of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco recently convened a series of workshops to develop community-based solutions to mortgage delinquencies in six cities.
But police tailor their response based on what is happening in other cities, which, in part, is why security was also beefed up at hotels, but police officials would not divulge more specific details.
The Homeland Security Department allocates funds based on what it determines are the cities at greatest risk, with New York topping a list of 10 cities that vie for the largest portion of the money.
The spring allergy capitals are based on tree pollen counts, while the fall cities are ranked on ragweed pollen counts from September through November of the previous years.
The exclusion of one Orthodox Jewish enclave isn't likely to undermine the city's bike-share system, which is based on a model that has proved successful in cities like Washington, D.
Again, this strategy replicates that of Adidas and Nike, who are based in Oregon, and make sure that nearby cities like Seattle are included when major clubs like Chelsea and Manchester United take their pre-season tours.
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The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
Electoral districts, based on long-standing administrative divisions of regencies and cities, will choose 427 representatives.
The goal is clear, but getting there, finding a way through the murk and smog that hangs over cities like Wuhan, and forging a future based not on steel but a different type of economy - that's the hard part.
The list of The Best And Worst Cities To Work, compiled by Careerbliss, is based on analysis from more than 200, 000 independent company reviews.
Crissy Gershey works at Parties That Cook, a San Francisco-based company that does "hands on" cooking events in cities throughout the U.S. She used to be a chef at some pretty well-known restaurants in the Bay Area, and then did catering work.
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