Britain's booming cities are not immune to the social problems common to all western cities.
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In March and April, the Dachis Group is also holding their Social Business Summit in four cities around the world: Austin, London, Singapore and Sydney.
To that end, for the past few years Honest Tea has been conducting a Candid-Camera-like social experiment to determine which cities were the most (or least) honest.
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Along with placing the CENTURY 21 Office building in their cities, SimCity Social players will have the opportunity to earn an energy boost by watching a CENTURY 21 commercial within the game.
It's a social that happens in major cities like New York and Chicago, and all over the country - where single Jewish people who are lonely on the holidays all get together and socialize.
New technologies are an effective tool to generate opportunities for development, which will help to reduce the asymmetries between the regions and the cities, promoting social, economic and cultural inclusion of disadvantaged sectors of the population.
Neither in Italy nor elsewhere is there any ground for complacency about social peace in Europe's cities.
Fringed, like most French cities, by concrete social-housing blocks, Lille faces a catalogue of difficulties as bleak as it is familiar: drugs, gangs, joblessness, crime.
Some scholars worry about social breakdown in poor mega-cities.
The International Rescue Committee has noted that in Jordan and other countries, a majority of Syrian refugees are living outside of camps -- in cities and towns where social services, schools and even trash and waste systems are not equipped to meet the needs of a suddenly inflated population.
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In densely populated India and the teeming cities of Brazil, local social networking sites have won the loyalties of internet users.
In the cities the main system combines social insurance, paid for by payroll taxes, with individual accounts, into which workers must pay 8% of their earnings.
Organized primarily through social media, citizens in nearly 100 cities across America have organized events at corporate storefronts to take creative action on a weekend most Americans dread.
Restaurants, cultural amenities and social diversity are much improved in the heartland cities.
Social interactions in SimCity Social go far beyond just visiting friends' cities or using them as resources to complete tasks.
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Giant buildings often function as vertical suburbs, muting the spontaneous encounters that provide cities with so much of their social, intellectual and commercial energy.
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I've received messages on social media from young people living in volatile cities like Karachi and Peshawar that they are determined to cast their ballot, no matter what.
That means she enjoyed many of the social benefits most children in the countryside or small cities can only envy.
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They would be more likely to graduate prepared to participate in a 21st century economy, communities would have centers of innovation, and our cities could be models of political and social engagement.
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The problem is that not everyone uses social media - it tends to be concentrated in major cities - and there is no guarantee people laid up in bed with a high fever will feel like broadcasting their symptoms to the world unless they are caught up in a media panic like the one around the H1N1 virus.
People are therefore attracted to urban living as cities hold incredible potential as engines of growth and social development.
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All of this was then multiplied in effect, by the economic and social changes that altered the established pattern of community life in cities, towns and villages throughout Britain and throughout the developed world.
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Data gathered between 1996 and 2006 by the University of Chicago's General Social Survey revealed that in the country's 12 largest cities, about 18% of married men and women had more than one partner, compared with 15% of respondents in the corresponding suburban areas.
He added there was still a division between sports facilities in other parts of the country and inner cities, which needed more gyms and other venues for social reasons.
However, too often, inner cities are viewed as places of blight, poverty, and social ills.
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Social media behemoth Facebook is field-testing its Groupon competitor in select cities now.
Before the nation sleepwalks into that kind of social engineering, though, it should look more closely at its own cities.
There will be several universities in the new economic cities, which reforming Saudis believe could be the catalyst for social freedoms.
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