Capital intertwines the stories of a disparate group of Londoners at the height of the credit bubble, from an overstretched City trader to a Zimbabwean traffic warden, conceptual artist to cornershop owner, all linked by one south London street where the house prices have rocketed.
And her forecasts actually turn out to be an armature for discussing the fallout of climate change (from rising sea levels to more extreme weather) in an accessible, tactile fashion and for examining existing liabilities in various regions and cities, like overstretched infrastructure and dwindling water supplies.
Indeed, polls suggest that many voters are anxious about high levels of immigration, and the pressure that incomers bring to congested cities and overstretched services.
The vehicle had passed through three police checkpoints, where officers from the city's overstretched, badly paid, badly trained and badly equipped force stood supposedly keeping an eye on passing traffic.
Introducing stricter traffic control measures, such as electronic road pricing, and enforcing motorcycle restrictions, are also part of the effort to ease pressure on the city's overstretched roads.
Either will be expensive.Services are overstretched in the American border cities too.
For cities with already overstretched budgets, this would be a nonstarter.
Instead, Mr. Blond said, city assessors are overstretched and lack critical industry tools for making accurate assessments.
Balotelli's left knee injury is not affecting his ability to walk or drive and is only a problem under the stress of competitive action but, given the relatively innocuous incident which caused the problem – he overstretched the joint on his City debut in the Europe League qualifying round at Timisoara – the struggle to recover is puzzling.
It calls for the Administration to shift the focus from the pursuit of insurgents in the Sunni heartland and, instead, to concentrate overstretched American and Iraqi forces in cities where the reconstruction effort is still somewhat popular — providing security while allowing economic development to flourish.
