The city's economy is also centered on high technology, with several companies drawn to the area by the university's research and development money, and by its graduates.

Services and public administration also play a major role in the city's economy.

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century ; the city's economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main rail hub and economic center of Germany.

Life science, information technology and shipping are important sectors, and research & development plays a major role in the city's economy.

Manufacturing and retail sectors became dominant among Midwestern cities, influencing the American economy, particularly in meatpacking, with the advent of the refrigerated rail car and the regional centrality of the city's Union Stock Yards.

In 1947, Karachi was the focus for settlement by Muslim migrants from India, who drastically expanded the city's population and transformed its demographics and economy.

The city's economy was changed to military production-especially after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Today, the city's economy is now diversified among government service, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, banking, and education.

At present, the city's economy is stable and diversified, primarily based on its traditional transportation, distribution, retailing and commercial heritage, but also supplemented by strength in the educational, health care, financial, information technology and insurance sectors.

After a brief period of economic prosperity in the 15th century, the city's economy suffered during the wars of religion of the 16th and 17th centuries, and recovery did not happen until the industrial revolution in the early 19th century.

The Spanish and Dutch garrisons became an important factor in the city's economy.

The local economy is dominated by trade, agriculture and karakul production ; small scale oil and gas exploitation have also boosted the city's prospects.

In this franchise, the player is a mayor that may, at their leisure, take a city from a single village to a successful metropolis, laying down zones, taking care of the public services and stimulating the city's economy.

The American Civil War boosted the city's economy with increased production of iron and armaments.

Although Pittsburgh successfully shifted the focus of its economy and remained a viable city, the city's population never rebounded to its industrial-era highs.

The president gave reconstruction contracts preferentially to family and friends, thereby profiting from the quake and increasing his control of the city's economy.

They are built not just for economy of space ; like temples and palaces of the past, skyscrapers are considered symbols of a city's economic power.

Prostitution was frowned on by respectable Berliners, but it continued to the point of becoming entrenched in the city's underground economy and culture.

The bomb, placed in a van on Corporation Street in the city centre, targeted the city's infrastructure and economy and caused widespread damage, estimated by insurers at £ 700 million (£ 1 billion as of 2011 ).

Romania's largest stock exchange, the Bucharest Stock Exchange, which was merged in December 2005 with the Bucharest-based electronic stock exchange Rasdaq, plays a major role in the city's economy.

In the nineteenth century, however, the closing of the caricatore precipitated a profound economic crisis that lasted until the end of the century, when artisanal and proto-industrial activity began to replace the traditional agricultural base of the city's economy.

" He sketches a ' sustainable ' city's features: compact, efficient land use ; less automobile use, yet better access ; efficient resource use ; less pollution and waste ; the restoration of natural systems ; good housing and living environments ; a healthy social ecology ; a sustainable economy ; community participation and involvement ; and preservation of local culture and wisdom.

The city's economy mainly relies on tourism and services, however also partially on research, construction, pharmaceuticals and the petroleum industry.

The Old Market in Downtown Omaha is another major attraction and is important to the city's retail economy.

Construction-materials, food processing, and light industries play a significant role in the city's economy.

The city's economy revolves largely around the port, which has modern facilities for handling and storing cargo, through which alumina and bananas are shipped.

The city's economy revolves largely around its fine natural harbor, which is the largest natural harbor on the continent of Africa.

Today the city's industrial base still revolves around the several nearby copper mines and copper processing operations.

A large part of the city's economy revolves around petroleum and the nearby Shengli Oil Field.

" Even today, much of the city revolves around the Avenue Inga, where diamond and mineral buyers have set up shop and the city's main business remains the diamond trade.

The city's former mayor, Darwin Hindman, is largely in favor of a non-motorized transportation system, and can often be seen riding his bicycle around the city.

The city's two main churches were largely rebuilt and redecorated.

The city's population increased substantially as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes in the late 19th century, largely as a result of emigration from the eastern colonies of Australia.

This is largely due to an elevation difference within the city's boundaries of over, but can also be attributed somewhat, to the effects of the seasonal Chinooks.

The city's economy is largely reliant on heavy industry, including one of Russia's largest aluminum plants, lumber mills, chemical works, and a coal-fired power station.

For example, gays and lesbians in San Francisco congregate in the gay and lesbian-oriented Castro neighborhood, while gays and lesbians in Seattle concentrate in the city's older bohemian stomping grounds of Capitol Hill and those of Montreal have concentrated in a working-class neighbourhood referred to administratively as " Centre-Sud ", but largely known as " Le Village ".

During the 1900s ( decade ) the city's 38 % growth in population was attributed largely to the interurban.

Joseph Mouren and his family were largely responsible for the expansion of the community of Huron in the late 19th century and fueled the city's growth into the 20th century by investment.

Despite its abundance of wilderness, recreational opportunities, hunting and fishing resources, and resplendent natural beauty, tourism is not a major sector of the local economy — largely due to the city's remote location.

It runs parallel to the Indian River and is largely influenced by the water, which generates tourism, the city's main contributor.

Aside from tourism, the city's economy is largely agricultural.

Eight whiskey distilleries opened in the area after prohibition ended, and this played an important role in the city's history when Depression-era Louisville soon tried to annex the area largely for the tax dollars the distilleries would generate.

The city's economy is largely driven by summer tourism and seasonal population increases.

The city's historic centre, location of the Reichstag building as well as the Brandenburg gate and most federal ministries was largely abandoned when the Berlin Wall cut through the area.

The first three of the city's canals have largely been buried, portions of it beneath the present-day Highway 406 and Queen Elizabeth Way.

The many structures which make up the city's historic areas are largely a result of the capital and materials generated by the lumber and associated wood manufacturing industries.

While the largely white middle-and upper-class Baltimoreans supported the orchestras and other societies, the city's African Americans formed their own Coloured Symphony Orchestra in 1931, which was municipally supported just like the BSO ; the first performance included Ellis Larkins and Anne Brown, the latter known for creating the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess.

The land between the two was, until the 1850s, largely residential and commercial, but since has been filled by the city's Prefecture de Police, Palais de Justice, Hôtel-Dieu hospital and Tribunal de Commerce.

These are the largest sectors of the city's economy largely due to the summer tourism industry, and a large influx of retiree's moving into the area.

The economy of Khorramshahr is still largely affected by the destruction and depopulation of the city's residents in the 1980s during the first years of the Iran – Iraq War.

In 1997, the Kadoorie-residence-turned Shanghai Children's Palace, had their spacious front garden largely removed in order to make room for the city's overpass system under construction.

In New York, however, the " mob was largely made up of seamen, most of whom lacked deep community ties and felt little need to submit to the authority of the city's shorebound radical leaders.