And at that time... all the cities were intact... and flourishing.

No matter how big the city, there must always be parks... and places for the birds to live.

Because remember, this is what drives the prosperity in the developing world in the villages and in the cities.

Japan s vacation home boom of the 1980 s has largely fizzled with its collapsing stock market and urban land market. But even there, the market for vacation homes remains hot in places like Karuizawa, Lake Kawaguchi, and Hakone.

It's just when you're in the city, it's the complexity of the city.

The tunnel was once built for the prosperity of the city, but is now a sanctuary for outcasts, who are completely forgotten in the average urban dweller's everyday life.

As the two child economic develops and the maternal and child market thrives, various grades of confinement service centers appeared around China, from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to the 3rd and 4th tier cities.

Here in New York, as in many other dynamic cities throughout the world, we can also glimpse on the horizon what growth and prosperity could offer in the future.

It's just another city... only a bit noisier.

Baoji has won more than 20 national honors such as the National Civilized City, the National Ecological Garden City and the China Habitat Environment Award.

Huge boom. Huge boom. Huge bust. Huge bust.

To the people of this city we donate this monument 'Peace and Prosperity'.

(piano flourish)

The Middle East s Arc of Prosperity

Finding the Keys to National Prosperity

China s End of Exuberance

It's good for their prosperity.

Tradable Prosperity

... canweprosper.

Israel s Lonely Prosperity

Asia s Invention Boom

The Peace Prosperity Cycle

Will no other cities benefit? Worse still, could the mood in housing markets soon lead prices in downward?

Economists would rather talk about interest rates or unemployment statistics factors that are concrete and knowable. Of course, these indicators do have a legitimate role to play in explaining housing markets, but they are simply not adequate to account for the recent booms.

A Five Step Plan for European Prosperity

I want to talk to you today about prosperity, about our hopes for a shared and lasting prosperity.

It is not the case that slums undermine prosperity, not the working slums they help create prosperity.

Stability and Prosperity in Monetary Union

The Visible Hand of Economic Prosperity

Urbanization and the concentration of people in hazard prone areas are but two examples.

The Bloom Is off the BRICS

What Greece Needs to Prosper

Live Long and Prosper

How can we move towards overall prosperity?

The Samurdhi (prosperity) programme

Everybody's prosperous, everybody's happy.

India must shine, but it must shine for all of its citizens. Unless Modi can deliver inclusive growth, his triumph will prove short lived and the Nehruvians will return.

Boom mentality spread to Los Angeles, New York, and Sydney around 1997, to Paris in 1998, to Miami, Moscow, and Shanghai in 2001, and Vancouver around 2002. These and other cities have been booming pretty much ever since prices in most are up at least 50 in real terms since 2000.

I was sitting in a slum outside Gurgaon just next to Delhi, one of the flashiest, brightest new cities popping up in India right now, and I was talking to workers who worked in garment sweatshops down the road, and I asked them what message they would like me to take to the brands.

Prosperity is a shared endeavor.

Globalization has generated an unprecedented surge in prosperity.

Hey, do you remember the boom we had after the last war?

For how long did the Maya culture flourish?

It has thus widened the gap between these two big social contexts the urban world has emerged as modern and prosperous (although fragmented), and the rural world has remained marginalized from the development process.

We have to invest, in fact, in the idea of a meaningful prosperity, providing capabilities for people to flourish.