But we city-dwellers have a crazy belief that planning decisions in our city should focus primarily on our own interests.
Most experts say that city dwellers should focus their energy conservation efforts on other renewable technologies or home efficiency improvements.
In driving the building of this infrastructure, the City will first focus on establishing an open, gigabit-speed networks in key innovation areas.
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The auction will take place at the Greg Martin Auctions Gallery at 660 Third Street in San Francisco, and will be simulcast at Martin's New York City location, the Focus Room at 693 Fifth Avenue.
Fleet was set up in 2011 and provides a focus for the city's digital artists.
The Old Street roundabout, the busy and undistinguished traffic intersection which is the focus for Tech City, is to be given a complete makeover.
"I want to create a new plan for jobs that injects a new sense of pace, urgency and focus for the city, " he said.
And as a tool for change, it allows city administrations to develop customer focus (another buzzword) and to examine how they allocate their resources.
Arrington asked Conway why the city has become his new focus.
The council said the investment would focus on the city's Creative Quarter which includes areas of the Lace Market, Hockley, Broadmarsh East, the Island site and Biocity.
The city, famed for its focus on money and food, had 173, 000 foreign residents at the end of last year, an increase of 6.7% from a year earlier, and was home to a quarter of all expatriates on the mainland, according to state media.
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The largest and most dramatic example of this trend is in Manchester, where the city council hopes that a stadium, now being built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, which will subsequently house Manchester City football club, will serve as a focus for the regeneration of a whole swathe of the east of the city.
The city council said it wanted to focus more on preventing homelessness in the first place.
Pearce spoke to the FA last week but encountered resistance from City, who felt he should focus on club matters.
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The couple moved to Oregon in mid-January, after a two-day drive from Los Angeles, hopeful the farm would give them the needed break from city life and a chance to focus on finding new careers.
The redesigned site will focus on travel, offering city guides, hotel discounts and access to office space in a couple of cities.
Across the world there is now a focus on growth of the city rather than a spread of prosperity across a wider area.
Over the next few days we conducted multiple focus groups in New York City and Denver with members of our target audience.
The mayor of London also claimed the city's transport system - the focus of much concern ahead of the Games - is being transformed.
And I think that compared to what the city's doing, which is, you know, trying to focus on high crime areas, and that's what we saw work in New York City.
When I ran for City Council, I didn't need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.
But as the supply of city land shrank, the Housing Partnership turned its focus to mostly provided technical assistance to developers.
On the southern coast, especially in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, close to Peru and a focus of opposition to Mr Mahuad, who is from the highlands, nationalist feelings run high.
"The events of last week were deeply disturbing to everyone in the city, " and the trial has helped sharpen focus on stop and frisk, but intense negotiations among lawmakers and advocates were under way for weeks beforehand, Quinn said.
It shows clearly that the focus of the tremor was right under the city's south-eastern suburbs.
Our focus will be on the country and this city to see how they handle their hosting responsibilities.
Roman Catholicism, he said, needed to shift its focus outward, to the world beyond Vatican City walls, to the outside.
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