The remake of traffic systems, rebuilding cities on smarter grid systems, synchronizing parking, possibly reinventing entire markets to reward drivers for sustainable activity, and actually re-imagining vehicles themselves will lead us not only to better cars, but possibly better cities and an easier way of living.
But, in examining all the proposals one cannot help but think that perhaps Bloomberg has identified an emerging culture where people are trying too hard to make city governments work better, instead of making cities themselves better places to work.
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While the Las Vegas economy isn't as diverse as better-performing cities, there are some glimmers of improvement.
Whether the new wave of migrants will find a better life in cities remains to be seen.
If we can find a way to build these habitats within them, it will make cities better and more exciting.
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Brooklyn, Chicago, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Detroit cut broad avenues through existing street grids as they advanced the Beautiful Cities movement aspiring to make our new cities better than Paris!
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Ms Zille, a white former anti-apartheid campaigner and one-time journalist, fought a jovial and energetic campaign, shining a light on the DA's efforts to bring better services to cities such as Cape Town.
Along with more investment in infrastructure, the OECD said Beijing should give migrants to cities better access to schooling and that fiscal reforms were needed to ensure lower levels of government can fund more social services.
First, rapid and massive urbanization: hundreds of millions of people are migrating to cities for better lives.
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Most young people now leave the region for larger cities and better opportunities.
As the Iraqi forces grow in number, they're helping to keep a better hold on the cities taken from the enemy.
Now we need to focus on giving young people, especially young men in our cities, better options than apathy, or gangs, or jail.
Joel Kotkin, of Pepperdine University, calculates that, although the city has not been as successful at creating work as the rest of California, it is doing better than most other cities: New York has 10% unemployment, compared with Los Angeles's 7%, and is losing manufacturing jobs while Los Angeles creates them.
Better broadband networks in 10 cities across the UK are being promised by the government.
Parochial schools, although often in the distressed centres of cities, have better discipline and get better results (see article).
It will also lower its prices on fresh fruits and vegetables and work to provide better dietary choices in inner cities.
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Many musicians, like pianist Henry Butler and vocalist Cyril Neville, left town for better-paying gigs in cities like Austin, Denver and Seattle.
Better job prospects in the cities are luring away the young people.
Experts say better police work in big cities had a big impact.
Like many of his peers, Zhou stumbled upon golf when he left his hometown to pursue a better life in the big cities.
Data storage giant EMC is pitching in, funding a one-year fellowship for someone to work with cities nationwide to better engage with the project.
But they mentioned about bees in the cities are faring much better than bees in the country because of pesticides and same growth of fields of flowers which are creating - it's all surmised - to their death.
And when that industry shrank and so many jobs were lost, who could have guessed that Pittsburgh would fare better than many other Rust Belt cities, and reemerge as a center for technology and green jobs, health care, and education?
This suggests that the recession may shake out and slim down cities, making them eventually better places to live.
It is typical of the towns from which underemployed sharecroppers fled north to Chicago, Detroit and other cities in search of a better life.
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The report actually says that the answer lies in better procurement practices in US states, cities and towns, and by extension at the Federal level.
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