The phrase "astute cities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe cities that are clever, perceptive, or shrewd in their planning, governance, or development strategies.
Example: "The rise of astute cities has led to innovative solutions for urban challenges, making them more sustainable and livable."
Alternatives: "smart cities" or "intelligent cities".
Brisbane is an example of a city that has been able to globalise with the help of a large and financially astute city government, which has used the surplus from its recent commodities boom to erect a more international model of economic development.
In astute, luminous jaunts through city streets and parks, Rohmer constructs an exquisite web of coincidences that he elevates into a sort of destiny.
"New York just doesn't feel like an engineering town," a friend, a native and astute observer of the city's culture, remarked to me recently.
"Milk" is accessible and instructive, an astute chronicle of big-city politics and the portrait of a warrior whose passion was equaled by his generosity and good humor.
Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called the film "accessible and instructive, an astute chronicle of big-city politics and the portrait of a warrior whose passion was equaled by his generosity and good humor".
Created by playwright and TV writer Theresa Rebeck and with some notable Broadway names writing tunes for it, "Smash" is an astute exploration of big-city aspirations and showbiz dreams from people who very clearly know their chosen topics intimately.
In advance of the release of the figures, and with an eye toward the mayor's race, WBEZ's architecture columnist Lee Bey wrote an astute column about whether the city should concentrate on rebuilding its population, which reached 3.62 million sixty years ago and has -- like so many other Rust Belt cities -- been on the decline since.
In 1875, when Farmers and Merchants Bank was on the edge of financial collapse, threatening to undermine Los Angeles' fledgling economy, Isaias Hellman, the bank's co-founder and the city's most astute financier, turned for help to a venerable East Coast institution: Lehman Bros.
Some of the songs have a music-hall quality, some have a carnival atmosphere, and some, such as "City," are joyful and astute and thrilling.
Many astute commercial property owners pay directly to the city now, but only twice a year as the city's fiscal operations dictate, and they have the investment power between payment periods.
