Not surprisingly, given its economic importance, it was also one of the wealthiest cities.

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Singapore is establishing one, and Shanghai and Shenzhen, two of China's wealthiest cities, have just pioneered theirs.

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Cherry-pick the wealthiest cities and lay cable in the most efficient manner.

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Also known as the business capital of Mexico, Monterrey is one of the wealthiest cities in Mexico and the second largest metropolitan area after Mexico City.

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Instead, some of the state's wealthiest areas pay poor cities to take on their affordable housing obligations.

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Toll Brothers, which calls itself a "luxury-home builder, " designs and builds single-family and attached homes in the Northeast, Southwest, South, Midwest and West, around some of the country's wealthiest and most populous cities.

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Marriage rates are lower, divorce rates are higher, crime rates are higher and civic participation is lower in the poorest American cities than in the wealthiest.

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He said health cities were in the most part "ivory towers, " treating only the wealthiest Indians and foreign medical tourists.

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