Nowadays, the Network includes four Centres: Pedoulas Community, Salamiou Community, Athalassa region, Akrotiri Community, which have been established in small communities with particular environmental and cultural characteristics.

UNESCO: Education For Sustainable Development - Cyprus

The work could include sculptures or "street furniture", and must be relevant to the site and the borough's "historical, cultural and environmental characteristics", the authority said.

BBC: Weymouth Gateway public art scheme announced

As part of the CNN iReport cultural census, which examines some of the more intangible characteristics that define the American population, we asked people around the country to read a standard passage aloud so we could evaluate their regional accent.

CNN: Regional accents thrive in U.S. -- but is that a good thing?

There are no characteristics in terms of age, sex, social or cultural background -- the only characteristic is to live relatively close to the area where the projects are carried out, in Paris.

CNN: Bone people: The explorers of the Parisian catacombs