In 2009, New York City was the most unequal city out of the 25 largest cities in the U.S. New York City contained the richest and the poorest county in the nation.
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In 2010, Mr. Bernstein was appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Fund for Cities of Service in New York City.
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"The low rise of the city gives it a character which is unique among American cities, and one that is important to the monumental function of the city, " said George Clark, chairman of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, a preservation group.
Riccitiello observes that San Francisco is one of the few major cities where traffic flows out of the city in the morning, not into the city.
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Adding inactivity to injury, this is especially true in locations where many people exercise accompanied to music, airplanes (hey, it's hard to return those seats to their upright positions), the New York City subway system, and the streets of cities other than Mountain View, CA. Indeed, most WiFi-friendly environments are also laptop-friendly and thus support access to not only Yahoo Music and its competitors, but high-quality free internet radio from last.fm, Slacker, and others.
That outlet is the City Pages, the alternative weekly of the Twin Cities.
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The visual orders of global cities make the articulations between different sectors of a city invisible.
The city of New York was one of the most dangerous cities in America, and particularly in the neighborhoods this young man is worried about, they were really dangerous.
"The focus for both government and cities needs to be ensuring that there are sufficient resources to implement the first round of eight Core City Deals, at the same time as delivering transformational deals for a new wave of cities, " it said.
The concept of a City of Literature was devised by Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust works closely with other Cities of Literature to assist and advise cities who are preparing bids.
In my last year of active duty, I volunteered for Clean Cities Atlanta and the City of Atlanta's Mayor's Office of Sustainability to help make Atlanta Electric-Vehicle (EV) ready -- and ended up working as a full time administrator on a Department of Energy EV Community Readiness Project with the Center for Transportation and the Environment.
Few places have received more accolades in recent years than Austin, the city that ranked first on our list of the best big cities for jobs.
His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.
In this role, she creates original video content to be shown across CNN's platforms, including the original series, City of Tomorrow, which highlights innovations in cities around the world.
Thousands of residents fled the city in the aftermath of Katrina and sought refuge in cities across the country, some after being stranded for days by the floodwater.
Mayor Kasim Reed has pledged that the City of Atlanta will become one of the top 10 most sustainable cities in the United States.
While the basics of the fight are consistent from city to city, some cities add their own flair, whether by asking participants to wear pyjamas (like London) or rush in at the designated time screaming "PILLOW FIGHT!"
Every city tracked in the 20-City Composite has seen prices rise for three straight months and 16 of the 20 cities saw year-over-year increases.
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Consider the growth of the U.S. Negro Leagues during the first half of the 20th century into major cities like Kansas City and Baltimore.
Scotland is one of very few countries in the world to have two creative cities, Glasgow City of Music and Edinburgh City of Literature.
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The City of Angels is home to the fourth highest crime rate of the 50 cities measured with more than 20, 000 violent crimes committed in 2011 according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report and an unemployment rate of 10.3%, nearly three points higher than the national average.
It is the first UK City of Refuge for persecuted writers and a founding member of the International Cities of Refuge Network.
The heads of some of the biggest cities are driving the policy agenda outside the city limits, often by forging partnerships with smaller towns in their metropolitan area.
With the 20-city composite index falling below its April 2009 low, 12 of the cities surveyed for the index marked new index lows in the current housing cycle.
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What has Perryville been doing right to make this city stand out from the hundreds of other cities that have seen their manufacturing base shrink over the decades?
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The Newcastle pilot - run by Newcastle University and the city council - is part of a project involving six other European cities in France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Greece, Italy and Spain.
Another tax incentive allows companies that set up anywhere save for three of the country's biggest cities--Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara--to accelerate deduction of investment costs.
The developing world is seeing a huge migration of people from the countryside to sprawling cities: Guatemala City's population has surged to over 2.5m today, for example.
Blitzer said that while the year-over-year results saw 18 of the 20 cities surveyed and both the 10-city and 20-city indexes improve, the most recent monthly data are not as encouraging.
Acapulco, the biggest resort city in the area, is now considered to be one of the most violent cities in the country.
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