In this way, the project aims to enlist the help of city residents in improving the efficient use of resources.
Amid the media firestorm, Ford insisted that he's still hard at work for the people of Toronto, as a conservative leader focused on making the city government more efficient and effective.
"We need to make sure they are efficient, comprehensive across the city, meet people's needs now and into the future, " said Ms Fitzgerald.
These improvements have put him within a whisper of the NBA's most efficient scorer, Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant (1.58 points per shot), whom Stoudemire and the Knicks face Thursday in New York.
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However, while the cities may be internally efficient, the problem doesn't just lie in the stuff that gets consumed within city limits.
"What I think we really need to focus on are more fuel-efficient vehicles, better city planning for the number and types of vehicles on the road, and more public transportation options, " Curtis Lewis said.
Like Tokyo, the city is easy to access through extensive and efficient public transport.
In the power vacuum that accompanied the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, a number of large and efficient city-states evolved, all having an unusually potent sense of a separate identity.
And city leaders might in turn overcome their aversion to the efficient pricing of public resources such as parking and busy roads.
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Mr. Bloomberg said a city study showed the city's parking system to be one of the most efficient in the country.
Public health engineers also had to be convinced, but tests in Patna, a city in Bihar state, showed that the toilets were sanitary and efficient.
When BMW redesigned its iconic M5 performance sedan in 2012, it replaced the prior generation's ten-cylinder engine with a smaller, turbocharged V-8, making the engine 25% more efficient and boosting mileage to 16 mpg from 13 combined city and highway driving.
History tells us what has happened to the likes of Borders and Circuit City once Amazon figured out a cheaper, more efficient way to storm into their industries.
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Responsibility could be shifted to Sicily's city councils, which in recent years have been strikingly more efficient than the regional tier.
The result is scattered, low-density development that keeps affordable housing out, increases the cost of infrastructure, separates inner-city residents from new jobs in the suburbs, and makes public transport less efficient.
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