Does it really make sense for a city whose prosperity is built on trade and finance to elect a mayor who is instinctively suspicious, to put it mildly, of both?
As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, Tuba City experienced a bit of prosperity during a uranium mining boom in the area.
'Economically Mr Cameron's attack on multiculturalism would threaten the international character of London that gives it an advantage over its competitors - thereby undermining the prosperity of the city.
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Friends of Mr Tung, who is an avowed fan of Singapore's patriarch, Lee Kuan Yew, argue that Hong Kong should, like Singapore, mix prosperity with that city-state's sterile politics.
It sets out the future prosperity of the city and looks towards where to growth areas of the city should be, where the shopping should be, where employment goes to - and the thorny question of housing.
Across the world there is now a focus on growth of the city rather than a spread of prosperity across a wider area.
That led to a public row and recriminations - both at odds with the vision of unity and prosperity, as the city uses its hard-won cultural title to rebrand its image at home and abroad.
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Formerly Singapore's prime minister and now its senior minister (and, by some accounts, still its chief strategist), Lee has toe-ended the city-state to a position of unchallenged prosperity in Southeast Asia.
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.
Just as the British government unwittingly accelerated London's decline after the second world war, so politicians today risk driving away some of the people on whom this city, and this country, depend for their future prosperity.
This is a cyclical city, and its relentless engine, real estate, soon drove it toward prosperity again.
Too many pockets of poverty survive amid the general prosperity, and are all the more glaring because the rest of the city is thriving.
Leopold II of Belgium had likewise remade Brussels into a modern city punctuated by royal monuments, streamlined facades and broad new boulevards that implied not only prosperity but a controlling order.
The city of Cangzhou, in Hebei province, decided a few years ago that its path to prosperity lay in making itself a centre of the chemical industry.
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