As dusk descends on the city, the techno sound systems are wheeled out and the whole district parties on until the early hours.

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Linda Malyon, of the Moorlands Democratic Alliance, said it was "a major issue for the whole district" and a full council meeting could have been quickly arranged.

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The area's population nearly doubled in the two decades ending in 2010, according to Census data, and the area welcomed the biggest percentage increase in population growth of any district in the greater city as a whole.

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Family firms would be put out of business by the move, old connections severed, and a whole district would die.

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If things continued as they were, the Levee district would corner Chicago and swallow it whole, this fine, proud city that wielded its triumphs like a scepter and wore its reputation like a crown.

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The storm, one of the biggest to hit the US in decades, swamped the low-lying district with tidal surges, lifting whole houses off their foundations.

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Beneath a cloud of paper in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo's bureaucratic district, whole ministries are vanishing, merging with each other, or at the very least getting new names.

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