He, or she, is a model to other cities that are toying with the idea of elected mayors.
An infrastructure bank is unprecedented on the municipal level, and may become a critical model for how cities pay for new building.
The company has partly backtracked on its platform-only model by acquiring land in major cities to build warehouse space for distributors.
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The exclusion of one Orthodox Jewish enclave isn't likely to undermine the city's bike-share system, which is based on a model that has proved successful in cities like Washington, D.
Once the poster child for urban despair, New Orleans may develop a blueprint for turning a devastated region into a role model not only for other American cities but for struggling urban regions around the world.
And my hunch is that they ought to defer expansion to new cities until they get the model working well in Philadelphia.
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The basic idea in New Orleans, and in other cities where Advance is imposing this new model, seems focused less around journalism than around new media models such as Reddit and Buzzfeed.com, which depend on hitting some viral sweet spot between content and communities to create traffic and with it, money.
The Berlin-based firm created a model that carves out personal technological space for people in cities.
But enough people like JetBlue for the airline to continue undercutting the majors on longer routes by maintaining its model of flying into smaller airports just outside of major cities in some key markets.
When American cities embraced the high cost, high regulation statist model two generations or so ago, they were often the richest and most dynamic places in the country.
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These proved popular and inspired the company to adopt the same model in New York and other large U.S. cities where the big-box approach was less popular and the necessary real estate prohibitively expensive.
During this pivotal time in our nation's history when we are facing the many issues that result from homelessness and poverty, we are proud to be considered a national model and to have been noticed by leadership from other major cities across the country.
U.S. industry requires access to places that the airlines do not serve and do not want to serve, since their business model is aimed at capturing the high-load factors that exist for travel between hub cities.
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However, this did not happen, as Nokia, Samsung, LG and other multinationals launched attractive new model designs especially for the Chinese market and established myriad handset sales outlets and channels in smaller cities and towns throughout China.
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Birns says that as Africa's cities get more populated and as demand for business is growing, the expansion of the low-cost model should revolutionize the continent's air transport in the same way that it did in North America, Europe and now in Asia.
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