The financial industry boom allowed the city and the state to spend without consequence, fattened the pockets of service industry workers and led to an unfettered local real estate development boom.
In 1950, at the beginning of the post-World War II suburban boom, the city of Raleigh had a population of 66, 000, living in a land area of only 11 square miles.
Hotel occupancy has increased by approximately 8% and air traffic by 7.6% in the same period, indicating that whereas there has been an increase in tourism also helping boost the economy, the predominant increase in the types of visas issued are those for residency, generating a secondary boom in this city.
Industry and home owners are paying the price for a South East property boom fuelled by excessive city bonuses.
The current construction boom and work on the city's sewers and other parts of its infrastructure have evicted many of the rodents from their traditional abodes, pushing them on to the streets.
Marijn Nieuwenhuis, from the University of Warwick's Department of Politics and International Studies, and contributing author to the book "Shanghai New Towns, " explained that the city's boom began in the early 1990s with the construction of the Pudong commercial district.
Then there is a political calculation: Mr Miliband and his shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, who both advised Gordon Brown during his time at the Treasury, are too closely associated with the finance-led boom years to repudiate the City altogether now.
After a boom in Victorian times, the city went into a decline from the beginning of the second world war.
The extraordinary boom in financial services in the City has been the key to London's prosperity, combined with the growth of other big employers like media, software, professional services and tourism.
The city has experienced a recent boom of five-star restaurants, cafes, and even hip nightclubs.
The city is now experiencing a baby boom, which began in 2006, and is expected to continue until 2017.
From 2010 to 2011, there was a 17% increase in business travellers coming to the city, and a hotel building boom will add some 1, 400 new rooms over the next two to three years.
Indeed, it's astonishing given the many clear improvements in New York that more residents left the five boroughs for other locales in 2006, the peak of the last boom, than in 1993, when the city was in demonstrably worse shape.
The city of Sendai is experiencing a building boom.
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Others include Oklahoma City, prospering on the shale-fracking boom in oil and gas, and Denver, which is adding jobs in construction, professional services and mining.
The "Boom-Boom Room" itself was a basement room at the Garden City branch, where brokers partied.
Like its counterparts nationwide, the city began building a vision deemed reasonable in the boom years, and had to scale back those dreams when the recession hit.
As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, Tuba City experienced a bit of prosperity during a uranium mining boom in the area.
The city is once again flourishing, cosmopolitan and experiencing a building boom.
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Kansas City, a metro that was fairly insulated from the housing boom, has the second-lowest average interest rate on our list, at 4.94%.
It accounted for 56% of the growth in real earnings in the city in 1992-97 (compared with 23% in the boom years of the 1980s).
Like a number of employees, Mr. Wang said he was frustrated because he has already spent five months in Taiyuan, and still has no certainty about when he can return to the boom town of Shenzhen, which he prefers to the more provincial, industrial city of Taiyuan.
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The social media boom has also been very good for the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City area, which rocketed 16 places to a solid 17th this year.
Despite a construction boom in office buildings in the country's two business centers, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, the scarcity of office space has prices rivaling those in Singapore.
In addition, Mr. Lowe said there is little new construction planned, and he noted much of overbuilding during the boom occurred far from the Legends, which is about 12 miles west of downtown Kansas City.
The city's population is growing rapidly and there is limited infrastructure to handle this boom.
City-funded urban development projects are installing a pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, and a real estate boom is enabling a young, creative class of artists and entrepreneurs to open hip boutiques and restaurants.
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