The light-hearted pillow fights, which the website says were initiated by the decentralised " urban playground movement", aim to turn cities into "urban living rooms" where public spaces can be reclaimed for social and spontaneous use.
So instead the Gulf Coast's towns and cities may have to turn to their last resort.
That has been coupled with an unprecedented rise in prosperity, particularly in the big cities, which in turn has helped spread nouveau-riche-type attitudes among the prospering classes.
His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.
Scene Four: Al is pestering us again about how we have to tighten our belts or else the global sea level will rise dramatically and turn our coastal cities into Waterworld.
Together this band of late night policymakers agreed a piece of law to establish and underpin future royal charters, a medieval form of documentation first used in 1066, most commonly to turn towns into cities.
Turn over in both cities was enormous.
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With apologies to the less wonkish, China is using physical capital as a loss leader in order to grow cities that will produce network effects will in turn foster the human capital that really makes a country rich.
As the capital's air improves, attention will turn to Mexico's other big cities.
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Our initial searches on a few travel Web sites didn't turn up any nonstop flights between the two cities, but we did find multi-stop tickets.
Predominantly Sunni cities like Ramadi, which saw a paltry few thousand turn out when most Sunnis boycotted the January election, were completely different on Thursday.
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"These 10 cities have produced ambitious and comprehensive plans, which will turn them into digital leaders, and give their local economies a real boost, " she said.
Drew Jones, co-author of a book on co-working, thinks that there is scope to turn empty retail space in the suburbs of big cities into large co-working facilities.
The need to build pipelines from gas fields to utilities and the requirement to build networks of charging stations on highways and in major cities will require a whole new massive infrastructure effort, which in turn will need the services of construction workers, engineers and other assorted building folk.
Nagin insisted he was not trying to turn New Orleans, one of the world's unique cities, into a clone of Las Vegas.
Conventional wisdom says the Republicans have to turn out voters in rural counties and the suburbs of big cities like Cleveland and Cincinnati, to counter the lopsided majorities that Obama will pile up within city limits.
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He was there again this week, struggling to turn back a Conservative tide which has engulfed a swathe of small cities and rural areas across the centre of the province, from the outskirts of Ottawa in the east to Niagara Falls in the south and the university town of London in the west.
As a result, it was transformed at the turn of the 20th century into one of Australia's fastest-growing cities.
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Mr Hague followed up his promises to regenerate the cities - made at a press conference earlier the same day - and pledged his party to turn round the countryside too.
But what was most interesting, I think, is that an expectation that the evacuees, people who have left New Orleans, living, at least temporarily, in cities like Houston, Memphis and Atlanta, would be a huge factor, that didn't turn out to be the case.
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