Sentence examples for cities function from inspiring English sources

"If it's going to raise eyebrows, we'll figure out another way to help our cities function," said Terry Gonzalez, a top official at the Community Development Commission.

A "60 Minutes" segment reported that Dorsey founded Twitter because he "was fascinated by trains and maps" and how cities function.

Francis is helping to coordinate the Future of Cities project, and says this systems-based thinking about how cities function will only become more important as cities around the world continue to grow.

For Mr. Liu, the answer is not just selling more Giant products (though his cycling advocacy campaign certainly helps with that), but focusing on how bicycles can reduce pollution, make people healthier and help cities function better.

But in shouting loud for the need to control our own budgets for infrastructure including transport, health and social care and apprenticeships – all hugely important – let's not lose sight either of another fundamental that doesn't just make cities function better, but makes them indisputably better places to be.

One question, she said, is "How do you build the understanding among suburban legislators that it's in their interests and in their district's interests to have the cities function well?" A number of policy thinkers, including the former labor secretary, Robert Reich, have warned about dire consequences of the widening gap between rich and poor in the United States.

In this way, New York and other major cities functioned as a metaphor for contemporary experience.

Accordingly, the concept of flood resilient urban design has been proposed, in which methods for managing the climate impacts while maintaining the cities' functions have been investigated.

Especially, building and maintaining complex models of smart sustainable cities functioning in real time from routinely sensed data has become a clear prospect [2, 5, 6].

How would such a city function?

The parade is a city function and has no connection to Major League Baseball.