The chancellor sought to prove his environmental credentials through a series of eye-catching green initiatives including a crackdown on drivers of gas-guzzling four-by-fours, nicknamed "Chelsea tanks" for their inner-city popularity.
Many local planners say the lack of parking is in part an unfortunate byproduct of the city's popularity.
That would make sense to some of Macau's 630,000 people, who see an irksome side to their city's popularity.
Over the years, she said, the city's popularity "gets strengthened in these periods where the republic is seen as persecuting the church".
London's air quality is already the worst among European capitals, and the city's popularity risks creating a city where residents waste ever more time and pollute ever more air looking for parking.
Whatever problems they ran into with the city, their popularity also brought them support from many government officials, including Senator Charles E. Schumer, Representative Nydia M. Velázquez and the Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz.
In particular, the officials say, the increasingly upscale lodging choices on and around Brickell Avenue, the heart of Miami's financial district, demonstrate the city's popularity as an international business destination.
The Columbia Alumni Association CAAA) of Washington, DC, has one of the largest concentrations of alumni outside of the greater New York City area, and capitalizes on their city's popularity among Columbians by hosting frequent fun, social, and intellectual events, as well as creative opportunities to take advantage of happenings in the nation's capital.
At the same time, the city's popularity as a tourist destination, and generally high prices for conventional hotel rooms, have made it a thriving market for short-term rentals, the overwhelming majority of which, the city believes, are offered through Airbnb.
The city's popularity with London commuters has also heated up the housing market.
