The analysis concluded that in-city generation projects provided the most substantial benefits.
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"BEACON is New York City's next generation open communications platform, connecting the city and its services with our communities, businesses, residents, and visitors, " said the Beacon team.
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Its popularity led it to be chosen as the next generation New York City 'Taxi of Tomorrow' following a rigorous selection process.
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How has one city managed to produce a generation of international contemporary artists, scooping an incredible number of nominations for Britain's top visual art award, the Turner prize?
It certainly rewards the efforts of the new generation now running the city.
As prime minister from 1959 to 1990, he led its rise from a poor, small, corrupt port to a first-world city-state in just one generation.
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The poverty that traps generations is concentrated in inner city neighbourhoods where communities have been failing for a generation or more.
Given the types of deep economic shifts we're going through now, even if we were somehow to train the next generation of scientists at schools like Baltimore city, that wouldn't cut it.
The conversations that I had via video last January with students from the Baguncao Youth Centre in the Brazilian city of Salvador confirmed my conviction that the next generation has the will and the sense of solidarity to build these societies.
Kevin Starr, the leading historian of California and a fourth-generation San Franciscan, points out that his city has always been unsure about whether it is a serious city or just a pretty face.
If Syracuse ever gets growth going again maybe the next generation will be introduced as being from the city that was the beta site for homegrown urban economic renewal that was in keeping with its historic entrepreneurial legacy.
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The Bronx Bombers have been the city's premium brand for so long now that a whole generation has grown up assuming New York has always been a Yankees town.
The aim of most, judging by the professions of the new generation, is to make money, often in the City of London, sometimes in the media, but not primarily to take up public office as their ancestors did almost by right.
Istanbul: This exotic city, crossroads of numerous civilizations and two continents, has lately been infused with a young, hip, design-driven energy as a generation educated abroad returns home to make its mark on the city's social scene.
He was a third-generation Mexican-American from the San Gabriel Valley who worked for the city of Los Angeles.
There was a time a generation ago when cancer patients had to trudge into dark basement offices of city hospitals to get the most advanced radiation treatments.
Energy infrastructure also got a boost as a UK competition showcased six designs for next-generation power pylons, and New Mexico announced plans to build an entire city for the sole purpose of testing green technologies.
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"I know that my grandparents think of the whole church a little bit differently than my generation does, " said Kaleigh Forst, a student, in New York City.
As 2, 667 people are currently registered with dementia in Belfast alone, the city's health trust is aware it will have to increase service provision for that generation in the next 10 years.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said the economic model of recent decades - focused on the City and the south-east of England - had collapsed and it would take a generation to build something new.
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It's a humid afternoon, and the biggest soccer superstar of his generation is sitting in a windowless room in the basement of a New York City loft, dressed in slim gray jeans and a white T-shirt revealing the dark sleeves of tattoos on his forearms.
For urban areas like New York or Los Angeles, there will be a unique--perhaps once in a generation--chance to induce middle-class people to settle down in big-city homes or condominiums.
In one generation, Dubai has graduated from a village that people just fly over, to an instant city in the desert, to a destination for migrant workers and expatriates, to a world financial center and demographic microcosm of the planet.
We think of the next generation of tech start-ups, born in Silicon Valley, Austin, Seattle or another progressive city.
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Is there any city, community or region that can possibly compete with its stunning record of innovation, creativity, and wealth generation?
The homes in Kansas City are connected via fiber whereas Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, and others continue to rely on last-generation technologies because they are delaying investment in modern technology to boost their profits.
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