In 2008 Sporting News ranked Dover 215th in its list of the 400 Best Sports Cities based on the year October 2007-October 2008, a year which saw high attendance for the NASCAR races and Delaware State's football team making its first FCS tournament appearance.

1898 saw the founding of the League of California Cities, an association intended to fight city government corruption, coordinate strategies for cities facing issues such as electrification, and to lobby the state government on behalf of cities.

Redwood became Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities after the 1992 General Election where he successfully saw through the abolition of the Community Charge, known as the " Poll Tax ", and its replacement, the Council Tax.

The years that followed saw Cities Service grow into a fully diversified oil and gas company with operations around the world.

Cities in the Diablo Valley, including Concord and Walnut Creek, saw their populations increase tenfold or more between 1950 and 1970.

In 2009, Davies launched his 4th brand ( called GIVe ) which saw 26 stores opening in selected towns and Cities in the UK along with an e-commerce retailing.

WRAL and WTVD switched affiliations in 1985 after WTVD's owner, Capital Cities Communications, bought ABC, but WPTF saw little windfall from the switch.

Cities such as Bozeman and Kalispell saw significant growth related to tourism.

The article, titled " Dan Schneider vs. the Rest of the World ," focused on Schneider ’ s attempts to change what he saw as the incestuous nature of the Twin Cities ' poetry scene.

The other significant concept in Cities and Knights is the concept of knights, which replace the concept of soldiers and the largest army.

At the close of the century, it became evident that despite significant investment and planning, Berlin was yet to retake " its seat between the European Global Cities of London and Paris.

Cities are founded, significant architectural structures emerge to which fortifications are later added.

The state government currently classifies local governments into two categories: Cities and Areas, there being little significant difference between the two ( a City is simply an Area receiving a proclamation of city status by the Governor ).

Also, a few venues catering to crowds of all ages, now gone, are remembered as significant to the Twin Cities music scene.

Cities or regions with significant Laotian-American populations include the San Francisco Bay area ( numbering at about 11, 545 ); the Sacramento Metropolitan Area ( 9, 814 ); the Seattle metropolitan area ( 12, 190 ); Minneapolis – Saint Paul ( 18, 031 ); the Dallas – Fort Worth metropolitan area ( 10, 500 ); San Diego ( 7, 002 ); Fresno, California ( 6, 381 ); Providence, Rhode Island ( 6, 291 ); Elgin, Illinois ( 4, 000 ); and the Greater Los Angeles Area ( est.

The Swabian League, a significant regional power in its part of Germany during the 15th Century, also had its own kind of Estates, a governing Federal Council comprising three Colleges: those of Princes, Cities, and Knights.

Other significant local productions include numerous concerts with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota: A History of the Land ( 2005 ), North Star: Minnesota's Black Pioneers ( 2004 ), the series Don't Believe The Hype ( 10 seasons ), Seth Eastman: Painting the Dakota ( 2001 ), Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland ( 2000 ), the series Tape's Rolling, Wacipi-Powow ( 1995 ), Lost Twin Cities ( 1995 ), The Dakota Conflict ( 1994 ), Iron Range: A People's History ( 1994 ), and How to Talk Minnesotan ( 1992 ).

With this legend underpinning the growing reports of a bountiful civilisation midway between Europe and Cipangu, or Japan, the quest to discover the Seven Cities attracted significant attention.

While reporters in other significant markets around the country negotiated more and more expensive contracts, Moore and other newscasters in the Twin Cities were more modestly paid.

His influence on Burroughs ' later work is significant as he helped edit a trilogy of novels — Cities of the Red Night ( 1981 ), The Place of Dead Roads ( 1985 ) and The Western Lands ( 1987 ) — as well as act as his business manager.

* Charles-Henri Sanson appears in a minor but significant role in Susanne Alleyn's historical mystery novel Palace of Justice ( 2010 ) and makes a cameo appearance in Alleyn's A Far Better Rest ( 2000 ), a re-telling of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.

Analytically, the city was ranked 1st globally for a culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008, and 2nd globally after Boston in 2009 from 256 cities on an analysis of 162 indicators in the Innovation Cities Index on a 3-factor score covering culture, infrastructure and markets.

Cities with high population densities are, by some, considered to be overpopulated, though the extent to which this is the case depends on factors like quality of housing and infrastructure and access to resources.

The Center for Civic Innovation regularly publishes research reports and bulletins on the topics of prisoner re-entry, pension reform, public housing, infrastructure, school choice, and policing, and manages an online database of urban policy resources, Cities on a Hill, launched in November 2009.

The Asian Institute of Management's study titled The Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2005 ranked the city first in ' infrastructure ' and tenth in ' dynamism of local economy ' among small cities of the Philippines.

A founding member of the Urban Cities and Communities Caucus hosting dozens of meetings with provincial governments and Canada's big city mayors, publishing a report ' Foundations for a Nation ' on Canada's infrastructure deficit.

Cities use TIF to finance public infrastructure, land acquisition, demolition, utilities and planning costs, and other improvements including sewer expansion and repair, curb and sidewalk work, storm drainage, traffic control, street construction and expansion, street lighting, water supply, landscaping, park improvements, environmental remediation, bridge construction and repair, and parking structures.

Cities are traditionally engines of social modernization and economic growth and at the same time the theatres in which globalization stages its actions.

Cities that were founded in the 12th century include Freiburg, possibly the economic model for many later cities, and Munich.

Cities may become lost for a variety of reasons including natural disasters, economic or social upheaval, or war.

For economic and social innovation, the city was ranked 15th globally out of 289 cities in 2010, and 5th in Germany by the 2thinknow Innovation Cities Index based on analysis of 162 indicators.

Cities such as Colmar and Hagenau also began to grow in economic importance and gained a kind of autonomy within the " Decapole " or " Dekapolis ", a federation of ten free towns.

Fort Worth is a part of the Sister Cities International program and maintains cultural and economic exchange programs with its eight sister cities.

Together with Naga and Sorsogon Cities, they are leading in the region in terms of urbanization and hubs of the economic activity, as well as the cultural, business and religious centers of the region.

Querétaro debuted in 13th place in the 2006 rankings of the " Best Cities to do Business in Latin America " in América Economía, a leading economic magazine.

Cities differ in their economic makeup, their social and demographic characteristics and the roles they play within the city system.

He has researched and compiled the “ Saviors of Our Cities ” list, which spotlights the top 25 universities and colleges that are “ exemplary examples of community revitalization and cultural renewal, economic drivers of the local economy, advocates of community service and urban developers, both commercially as well as in housing .”

Florida's use of census and economic data, presented in works such as The Rise of the Creative Class ( 2002 ), Cities and the Creative Class ( 2004 ), and The Flight of the Creative Class ( 2007 ), as well as Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks ( whose " bobos " roughly correspond to Florida's Creative Class ), and NEO Power by Ross Honeywill ( whose NEOs deliver a more sophisticated level of evidence ), has shown that cities which attract and retain creative residents prosper, while those that do not stagnate.

Florida and other Creative Class theorists have been invited to meetings of the National Conference of Mayors and numerous economic development committees, such the Denver mayor's Task Force on Creative Spaces and Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm's Cool Cities Initiative.

The mission of Clean Cities is to advance the nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by supporting local decisions to adopt practices that contribute to the reduction of petroleum consumption.

Cities and counties interested in industrial development would do well in the months ahead to keep their eyes peeled toward the 13 northwest Georgia counties that are members of the Coosa Valley Area Planning and Development Commission.

The United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme has defined sustainable political development is a way that broadens the usual definition beyond states and governance.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

In recent decades, there has been a good deal of new housing development on the outskirts of the city, and there is a substantial population that commutes daily to the Twin Cities.

Blaine's growth could be attributed to the development of Interstate Highway 35W, U. S. Highway 10, and Minnesota Highway 65 which increased its accessibility to the Twin Cities making it an attractive location for business and residential development as many people call it home today.

Cities, capital and development: African cities in the world economy ( Halstead, NY, 1992 ).

In 1985, Grams formed Sun Ridge Builders, a Twin Cities construction and residential development company, serving as its president and CEO.

Recognizing Turner's work on urban development as Mayor of Dayton, Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert appointed Turner as Chairman of the Saving America ’ s Cities working group.

The Seven Cities of Gold is a strategy video game created by Dan Bunten ( and the game development team Bunten founded, Ozark Softscape ) and published by Electronic Arts in 1984.

* Greener Cities International project dedicated to the development of an ever growing demand for environmentally friendly eco-sustainable vehicles, specifically to promote the use of cleaner fuels such as CNG and Biogas.

It was founded as the Garden Cities Association in 1899 by Ebenezer Howard, initially to promote the development of Garden Cities.

As of 2008, Nicci Wikkid ( David Hussman ) is a software consultant in the Twin Cities and a well-known leader in agile software development processes.

One of the major development stations for WPVI's Action News was its Capital Cities sister station, WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York.

After Bacon's retirement from the Planning Commission in 1970, he served as vice president for the private planning firm Mondev U. S. A., was an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1950 to 1987, and narrated " Understanding Cities ", an award-winning series of documentary films describing the history and development of Rome under Pope Sixtus V, Paris under Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Regency London under John Nash, American cities, and cities in the future post-oil era.

As Chair of the Cities Committee, Brennan authored two new laws in 2007, to improve public health and safety in construction and development in New York City — one cracking down on the filing of fraudulent building plans to the New York City Department of Buildings, and the other compelling the acquisition of insurance for excavations that might damage adjacent properties.

Morningside ’ s residential landscape reflects several of the important broad themes in the pattern of suburban development in the Twin Cities area: the relatively high-density of people per square mile within the platted subdivisions, the architectural similarly of the houses and the dependence upon mass-transit.