Blacks lived in different wards and neighborhoods through the city, clustered in pockets to be sure but never fully segregated from the white population, whether native-born or Irish and German immigrants.
Yet Starbucks moved in – its shock and awe business model meaning that chains sprung up almost overnight in Australia's major cities, clustering in cafe strips and putting the frighteners on independent retailers.
At least half of that, or about $200 million, comes from the province capital, Guangzhou, and the other cities clustered along the Pearl River Delta north of Hong Kong.
There, amid some of the world's most luxurious hotels, apartments and shopping malls, the emirate's most audacious gamble is taking shape.The Dubai International Financial Centre is a small city-within-a-city, clustered around a striking building known as "the Gate".
The seeded teams will surely be delighted to be drawn in Group H; they will play in Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, three cities clustered in the south-east region with mostly mild weather in June and July.
Even among the countless other sites and cities clustered across this desert country, Palmyra is without peer.
The distinctive feature of the City cluster is the pre-eminence of foreign financial firms.
An aberration of the planning system, the building stands alone outside the planned City cluster, like the school bully expelled from the classroom, poking its unwelcome bulk into the skyline from almost every possible vista.
To the north, as Rees promised, you do look back at the emerging City cluster, with the Cheesegrater, Gherkin and NatWest Tower dutifully lined up like chess pieces in a row.
But while these buildings are the product of a vague planning concept, which promotes building tall over transport hubs and at the central City cluster, the Walkie-Talkie is a bizarre anomaly that has shouldered its way into being.
