But the investment bankers still expect City-scale salaries and bonus structures.
Even grander in scope--and likely price--are the full-scale city communities, much like those in Dubai, which are being developed around the nation.
But what it gave us, with its short, 200-foot block lengths and small, 20- to 25-foot lot sizes, its direct and easy navigability, is a walkable, personal city at human scale, where every street is an endlessly varied and inviting series of visual experiences, of constantly changing shopfronts, restaurants and buildings of infinite styles and uses.
At the municipal level, the pioneer operating on a grand scale is the city of Philadelphia.
This summer, local microbrewers will band together to open the first large-scale brewery within city limits in more than 30 years.
The salvation of the theaters of the former Great White Way was always a promised but ambiguous add-on to the state and city's large-scale redevelopment schemes for the Times Square area, clearly secondary to the size of the real estate deals to be made.
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Thousands of people were killed or wounded and the city suffered destruction on a massive scale.
Now, six years after those initial discussions, and with sponsorship by General Motors, Mitchell and his team are soon to start work on a full-scale prototype of the City Car.
There is something to this: City economists were surprised by the scale of Mr Brown's spending plans, and some are now firmer in their belief that the Bank of England will increase interest rates again.
To see the scale, compare a city like Miami (at one extreme, with just one district covering almost all the metropolitan area) and Boston (at the other, with 70 districts within a 30-minute commute of downtown): that big an increase in choice is associated with an improvement in attainment of 1.4 grades and an increase in young adult earnings of 15%.
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They're using data collected by the weather service during the storm, to try to understand the surge, try to understand the wave heights, and they're going to create a computer model, as opposed to the scale model of a city, for the storm as it came up from the south and the Gulf of Mexico, and see if they can recreate the exact conditions.
Even city officials are starting to gripe at the scale and cost of all this.
Only a fraction of the original city remains, but in their age and scale, the ruins are reminiscent of the Angkorean temples of Cambodia.
The yards and meters labels on the scale of a map of Vatican City, which was contained in a World News graphic on Saturday about the papal conclave, were incorrectly reversed.
The Flash-based tool in one example showed a map of London, and with the touch of a sliding scale you see areas of the city where housing is a certain price and commute times are a specific length.
While both the London Plan and PlanNYC represent compelling efforts to re-invent the aging electric infrastructure in London and New York City, they ultimately seem inadequate given the scale of the challenge the cities face in this regard.
The city is vast and dense, and the areas that are most popular are ones with a human scale or with open, green space, which is a premium in the city.
The same year it was released, the Motorola became Galvin's first internationally sold product -- albeit on a fairly small scale, moving two units in Mexico City.
Thanks to its Modernist architecture, which differs drastically from the rest of the city, some locals feel the building is off scale in comparison to the rest of Seville.
There is a concerted effort to redistrict the city, a concerted effort to keep thousands of people out, change the demographics of the city and hope people give up on a mass scale.
He talked of businesses on the scale of Google or Amazon emerging from Tech City.
"China's city and rural commercial banks don't have the scale of major banks and so need to offer higher returns to be able to pull customers away from their bigger competitors, " Mr. Ye said.
In Guadalajara, there was a large-scale Army raid, with helicopters, near the city center in March.
The city, which has tested the proposal in a small-scale pilot initiative, cites research that show that similar programs can boost the number of words spoken to a child by 55 percent.
It's 13, 000 square feet inside this big building, which makes it about one-fiftieth scale, and it's part of the city along the lake that is being recreated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in tiny little bits.
Twenty years ago it was a run-down city in a developing country which barely registered on the economic Richter scale, let alone as a global hub for air travel.
The scale of profits is likely to prompt fresh criticism of the City's reward culture following comments by politicians that "excessive" staff bonuses paid should be curbed.
Arriving in New York as the skyscrapers were going up and the excavation of two city blocks for Pennsylvania Station began, Bellows thrilled to the dynamism and enormous scale of these undertakings his seven paintings of the making of Penn Station show him engaging with landscape, the dramatic lighting effects of working at night, and handling crowds.
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It had shown the city had the "the infrastructure, facilities and ambition to compete on a world scale and that is something we should celebrate".
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