Mirage in the desert or city of the future, the pull of Dubai is real.
The American city of the future is going to look a little bit more like the American city of the past, more closely centered on a high density downtown with mass transit increasingly used to get workers in and out.
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The architects of the Audi Urban Future Initiative gathered Thursday night to discuss the four-year process for designing New York City of the future at the Openhouse Gallery.
When my agency, StrawberryFrog, was asked to brand Dubai Downtown, and help put it on the world stage, we studied these great campaigns of the past even though the destinstion we were tasked to position is a city of the future.
General Motors have supported the project from its inception and see the City Car as an integral part of the future development of the automobile, although remain cagey on the practical details of making the project viable.
Last week the Indiana city of Scottsburg made a bet on the future of its street lights with a little-known technology called LEPs light emitting plasma.
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The council's public consultation on the future of the city's libraries had 4, 000 individual responses.
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Chris Gribble, the CEO of Writers' Centre Norwich, which led on the Creative Cities bid, focused on the future of the city, revealing the new projects which will launch Norwich nationally as a UNESCO City of Literature.
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"The people of New York City will decide for themselves who they want as mayor, who they want to take the City of New York into the future and who's got the best background to do the job and to do the job right, " Mr. Liu said.
This is the opportunity for part of New Orleans to become a city of the future.
Fans of the Kansas City Chiefs or New York Jets get to have serious conversations about the future of the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets, and nobody breaks into sidesplitting laughter.
In exchange, al-Sadr said he wants the majority of coalition forces to leave the holy city, followed by a "broad discussion" about the future of his Mehdi Army in Iraq, al-Rubaie said.
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She tells us that in the VIP guest lounge, there's a mock up of a gleaming city of the future.
In addition to Mr. Richmond's arguments, our writer Martin Robinson makes the case for adding Seoul to your travel bucket list with his "A perfect day in Seoul", a scouring of the highlights of the city district by district, and "Fast forward into the future in Seoul, " a demonstration of how the city is innovatively leading the world in entertainment, shopping, art and even dating.
Ms Holland said the Labour group welcomed the mayor's agreement to its conditions for participation in the cabinet, recording votes, and the use of scrutiny to develop and review options for the city's future.
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Matalin says one obvious goal is to get New Orleans back in the regular rotation as a Super Bowl host, but the larger goal is to help the city's future by demonstrating how successfully it can host one of the biggest single events in the sports world.
Councillor Ann O'Byrne said the plans would give "a really good foundation for the future of housing" in the city.
Dozens of skyscrapers crowd the model from end to end, plate glass is everywhere suggesting that city planners see the Khartoum of the future shimmering like a giant chandelier over the desert.
They also captured the worn-to-the-bone look of Mega-City One, a future megalopolis that has more in common with New York City during its Fort Apache: The Bronx days than the cyberpunk future of Blade Runner.
One, how come Britain took the High Rep job, rather than a big economic portfolio directly related to the future regulation of the City of London?
Merchant and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot announced the winning prototypes from the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition that engaged hundreds of urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of the City's approximately 11, 000 public pay telephones.
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Councillor James Alexander, leader of the Labour-run City of York Council, said the project was key to securing the city's economic future.
Over lunch in what seemed to be Kars' only decent restaurant, he talks of an unlikely future when the city might become the capital of the Caucasus.
Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for any future development of the Sheffield City Airport site to be put on hold.
"The union wanted to use the expiration of the evaluation system to keep ineffective teachers in classrooms, not to mention hold the city hostage in future negotiations, " she said.
"The union wanted to use the expiration of the evaluation system to keep ineffective teaches in classrooms, not to mention hold the city hostage in future negotiations, " Bloomberg spokeswoman Lauren Passalacqua said after the announcement.
The culmination of more than two years of study and 30, 000 conversations with the public, Detroit Future City is less a master plan and more a guidebook that lays out a path for how Detroiters can begin the gargantuan task of rebuilding a decaying city that can no longer afford to provide even the most basic services to its shrinking population.
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Now the city council wants residents to make a decision on the future of the hut and the nearby Raven Centre.
The premise is the same in the comic book as the film: In the future, Mega-City One has urban-sprawled its way across the East Coast of America, covering the area from Boston to Washington DC.
The City had agreed to make a "significant contribution to the future of Crossrail", he said.
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