Sentence examples for brainy cities from inspiring English sources

They have been limited to a handful of very brainy cities, especially West Coast tech centres.

Brainy cities have low divorce rates, low crime, high job creation, ethnic diversity and creative capitalism.

Two years ago, a list of the nation's brainiest cities was put together from Census Bureau reports — that is, cities with the highest percentage of college graduates, which is not the same as smart, of course.

According to the US-based Atlantic magazine, a 2012 study of US metropolitan areas found Charlottesville to be the country's brainiest city.

Boulder took the prize for being America's brainiest city in a study performed by Richard Florida for the Daily Beast.

Newton, a brainy and self-assured city of 83,000, is mired in budget woes, not least because of a project the state treasurer has tartly labeled a Taj Mahal: a new state-of-the-art high school whose price is approaching $200 million due to its complex design and unexpectedly high construction costs.

Sydney is playing host to three festivals of the mind this week as Australia's biggest city showcases its brainy side.

Partly because fewer college-educated workers lost their jobs during the recession, so lower unemployment rates in some cities simply reflect a brainier citizenry.

Despite the financial crash, the number of private-sector jobs in New York rose by 4% between 2007 and 2012; nationwide, it fell by 3%.Besides its traditional brainy industries finance, property and the media the city now has a thriving technology sector, which generates $30 billion in annual wages.

— On Friday, this city of rocket scientists and brainy inventors was stunned when a neuroscientist with a Harvard Ph.D. was arrested in the shooting deaths of three of her colleagues after she was denied tenure.

Now they do the same thing by luring brainy young people away from less livable American cities.