"living cities" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
For example, "The government is committed to making our city a vibrant, living city."
This can turn living cities into Potemkin villages: sanitized shopping environments for the global consumer.
"We have been looking for the secret sauce," said Ben Hecht, the president and chief executive of Living Cities.
The homemade quality of everything in the Museum of Contemporary African Art gives it a raw atmosphere of living cities.
More recently, Washington DC-based nonprofit Living Cities raised $31m from 10 foundations and commercial investors for the Blended Catalyst Fund.
One of South Asia's oldest living cities, Peshawar is renowned for the Gandhara art excavated nearby — pieces that reveal an astonishing syncretism: Buddhist sculptures showing Hindu gods, Greek mythological figures (Atlas is a favorite), Persian columns and other influences besides.
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, a philanthropic arm of the German bank, and Living Cities, a nonprofit partnership of 22 foundations and financial institutions, commissioned the report, which will be released later this month.
