Despite its smallish population (120, 000), Evansville tops bigger metropolises like Miami, Chicago, Detroit and Washington, D.
Down below, the area has a busy nightlife that reminds of newly booming Asian metropolises more than old Taipei.
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While it may vie for the most dramatic, this high-altitude hot spot is now one of many built in major metropolises.
Both cities are large metropolises, both are epicenters for modern art and upscale cuisine and both have thriving entertainment scenes that attract starry-eyed hopefuls.
Since then, the figure may have declined, but this downtown resurgence is likely limited to the tech industry and to the biggest metropolises.
Now that it seems like the server issues are finally fixed with SimCity, PC gamers can finally build their own virtual metropolises without any issues.
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Rudy Giuliani, New York's previous mayor, almost single-handedly pulled the city back from ungovernability and turned it into one of the world's better run metropolises.
Bustling metropolises usually attract massive crowds, frustrating traffic and deafening noise.
Through Friday night, new reports of meteor sightings appeared every few seconds on Twitter, some of them from the metropolises of New York City and Washington.
With a little more encouragement, what once was an eccentric way to roof your home could soon become the universal standard, turning our cities into lush, green metropolises.
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These metropolises are just a few of many marketing hotbeds.
For example in California, where Clear Capital reports 2010 price gains in six out of the 15 major metropolises: Riverside, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco and Fresno.
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Because the game was designed to be an always-online experience, even for single player, the millions of PC gamers who want to build their virtual metropolises need to log on to play.
Here, where cars are not a necessity, the presence of unusual cars causes a stir and offer unique insight into the psyche of New Yorkers, compared to driving metropolises like Los Angeles or Atlanta.
All across the United States, between the renowned metropolises, are smaller towns that generations ago were selected to have their own stations -- stopping-off points-- and thus were accorded a special kind of enduring identity.
Combining the two resources in a single project allows for the more efficient use of transmission lines like the multibillion-dollar one being built to carry 4, 500 megawatts of renewable energy from the Tehachapi to coastal metropolises.
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The list of metropolises where foreclosures are most common include familiar names like Miami, where one in six homes with a mortgage is on its way to foreclosure, and Detroit, where the ratio is one in 23.
Bramah wrapped up the panel by saying investors should favor companies that build mass-market residential housing over luxury developments, as well as ones that focus on the slightly smaller, second-tier cities in the mainland rather than metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai.
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Though metropolises like New York may be used to the white stuff, London tends to get little more than a dusting of snow on most winters, which made the 10.0 inches or so of snowfall across the capital all the more startling on Monday.
While big-city dwellers are often maligned by those who prefer the charms of small-town life, Park and Peterson note that most people in the country live in big cities and that studies prove that the vast majority of those living in metropolises are happy about it.
"SimCity Social will entice a new generation of urban planners with its easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to expand and grow their own unique sprawling metropolises and watch as it comes to life in fun and unexpected ways, " said Jami Laes, Vice President of Global Studios for Playfish.
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We were also told that the company has looked at a variety of other cities where potential Innovation Centers could be planted, and while "three to four" undisclosed metropolises are in play, the company wants to nail the execution of its first two before hastily expanding into new locales.
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