Early this year, the city came up with an idea to reduce car use for short city trips: a free bus service circling the major business locations, government offices and tourist sites.
The idea makes city exploration a more unique experience, as travelers increasingly look for more than generic package holidays.
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In the U.S. IBM and Cisco have long been championing the idea that city planning is the ultimate green solution.
But he also sketches a portrait of a place that is not just a city, but an idea, and a dream.
The city, and the idea of privately-funded municipal internet, won.
Jose Corona: Inner City Advisors was founded in 1996 with the idea that by developing competitive and sustainable companies in inner city communities, it would lead to long-term positive impact on our local communities.
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Mr Smith has written an unapologetic paean, not to any particular city but to the urban idea in general.
Community is important here, and if you have a good idea, the city is small enough to make a mark.
Also on the drawing board: tax credits and incubators for university students who pursue a business idea inside the city.
Diversifying comprehensive education by introducing city academies is one promising idea.
The Windy City lost 500 people to gun violence in 2012 alone and neither the police nor city hall have a single idea on how to stop it.
McQueen, aided by his screenwriter, Abi Morgan, has stitched together a bespoke idea of the city rather than the place itself, in the same way that he frames erotic pursuit more as a neat conceptual art work than as the farrago of lunging, dithering, yearning, and near-farce in which most of society wallows.
Since the idea of a motorway box inside the city was abandoned because of local opposition in the 1960s, nobody has put forward a better idea for what to do.
"This is the idea of downsizing the city so that the costs more closely match the amount Detroit brings in, " Henning said.
She likes the idea of a free city wireless network, but says it just doesn't work well enough to rely on it.
Jan Cline had no idea, but the city of Salem has a clear law that states a person can only have three yard sales a year.
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"We are looking at negative growth for the second quarter, and that will really shock people, " says Kanika Singh of British consultancy IDEA in the Lion City.
Yet cities vary hugely in their survival rates from SCA. (Seattle is among the best in the country.) Do you have any idea how well your city is doing?
Mr. Leggio, who helped to fund Mr. Lasorda's portrait at the Smithsonian Institution, said he asked Mr. Lasorda to appear in the commercial after Ontario city officials contacted him with the idea.
We will be in an RV somewhere in the hills of Park City honing our new script called Idea Men, and creeping into the village each night ready to peddle our latest concoction.
Although airport hotels have offered this service for transiting passengers for more than a decade, it is only in the last few years that city hotels have jumped on the idea, hoping to maximise the use of rooms that would otherwise be sitting empty.
It will also make it easier to sell the idea of living in the city to talented outsiders.
The rainbow crossing, an idea of Sydney's city council, was placed as part of this year's gay and lesbian Mardi Gras celebration.
Mr McKay initially approached the city council in 2006 to discuss the idea but said he was told there was little interest among councillors.
"The leasing idea seems ideal for local city councils and governmental departments running small fleets, " says Andrew Fullbrook, a senior manager at automotive research group CSM Worldwide.
"I was more fascinated by the London folklore, and the idea of a very old city like ours having this extra life that these stories give it, " Warlow said.
Yet residents here would find the idea that Philadelphia is a green city laughable.
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The New York City Buildings Department didn't approve the idea until three days before shooting began.
In the city of nonstop glitz, nobody questioned the idea of two tables going up and down, offering eight "flights" a night, she says.
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