Sentence examples for showcase city from inspiring English sources

In the centre is Rome, Lazio's great showcase city.

In the 1920s and 30s a fortune was spent creating a showcase city.

Azerbaijan's oil riches have turned its capital, Baku, into a gaudy showcase city.

China's showcase city appears to be showing off, decorating itself as though it's Asia's Las Vegas.

"China wants Shanghai to be this kind of dragon's head, a showcase city for all the world to see," said Robert Lawrence Kuhn, an American businessman who has worked with the Shanghai government.

Though Turkey is not prone to mass demonstrations, concerns have increased among political leaders about the potential for a social explosion as the poor watch the rich glide along seemingly unscathed, particularly in the country's showcase city.

But China is already participating in the world's commerce and culture, at least in its showcase cities.

For many years, beggars were rarely seen in the showcase cities of this country that still calls itself a socialist state.

Now China, with water scarcity reaching the critical stage in sprawling showcase cities like Beijing and Tianjin, has embarked on one of history's great water-moving projects.

Old Russia hands like me, who remember when a banana was more wondrous than a Fabergé egg, swoon at the profusion of delicacies available these days in the bright showcase cities of Moscow and St . Petersburg

A few of the homes we found showcase cities with unusual housing patterns, like Mumbai, where a short housing supply contributes to high prices.