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...In the red-light district, where certain hotspots are visited by 900,000 pedestrians a week, the authorities have shuttered hundreds of sex-workers’ windows, and imposed modestly earlier closing times on...
...With cities such as London and New York becoming unaffordable to anyone but the wealthy, is there much to be learnt from the Viennese model?...
...Michael Wickens, professor of Economics at University of York and Cardiff University: Neither. There will be no change....
...Almost 3m people voted in Sunday’s usually muted district council elections, nearly double the number who cast a ballot in 2015 and more than 70 per cent of those registered to vote — one of the biggest...
...When completed in 2025, it will total 18m sq ft of state of the art office and residential space — the equivalent of Pittsburgh’s central business district....
...were substantially relaxed in three high-productivity cities — New York, San Francisco and San Jose....
...The Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), the government-owned developer, has set up workers’ accommodation on Saadiyat Island, where the museums and a branch of New York University are under...
...slush funds, and generating revenues for the leadership”....
...Like PGW, Philadelphia, a city of 1.6m nestled between New York and Washington DC, has slowly rallied in recent years....
...The Tourism Development and Investment Company, the government-owned developer, has set up workers’ accommodation on Saadiyat Island, where the museums and a branch of New York University are under construction...
...“They’re being trapped on the wrong side of history behind a new iron curtain,” says Richard Giragosian, director of Regional Studies Centre in Yerevan....
...He lost his job at Bank of New York Mellon more than a year ago, and since then has sent out hundreds of job applications. He has had only one interview. “It’s about my age . . ....
...Where Mr Assad and his father for 40 years controlled Syria with an iron fist, huge stretches of the country – including in and around the capital Damascus and the commercial hub of Aleppo – are now under...
...In both western and eastern Europe, many urban districts seethe with competition for jobs, housing, education and welfare between less well-off native residents and hard-pressed recent settlers, some from...
...(Financial Times) US pension fund sues big banks over CDS ‘dominance’: The class action antitrust suit filed by the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan pension fund accuses...
...in this year as companies struggle to raise capital to fund the search for new reserves to meet surging Chinese demand for commodities from copper to iron ore, the FT reports....
...Lloyd Blankfein, also on the council, visited Medvedev earlier in the year about it and woke at 5am New York time to join the inaugural session via a video-link....
...Whether in those looming brick cliffs of London’s warehouses, the tight, industrial grids of New York’s Chelsea or SoHo, even in the reclaiming of Beijing’s 798 armaments-manufacturing district as a thriving...
...There’s a few skyscrapers, but it’s nothing like New York or Toronto. Bays, inlets, ferries, bridges, mountains, and thanks to all the sun and rain it’s really green....
...Outside Mutual Ground, a women’s refuge in Aurora, about 25 miles west of Chicago, hundreds of women’s and children’s shoes hang on the spikes of an iron gate....
...The mayor of New York has to wrestle with these tough choices, too, but it’s a more urgent problem for Edgar Springs because, like New York, it is responsible for its own policing, and now it has no police...
...In addition to establishing the nucleus of a thriving business hub, the millers invested in their new home. They helped fund the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and establish a lavish park system....
...He has also announced the scrapping of the western extension of the congestion-charge zone....
...Blankfein’s New York office, on the 30th floor, with a view over the Hudson River, is dominated by books such as the Last Tycoons and Wikinomics....
...Christopher Grimes is an FT correspondent based in New York...
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