1.   Besides, it is hard to imagine cities like Philadelphia or Los Angeles needing to raise millions of dollars to market themselves.

2.   But imagine the city without a United Nations.

3.   Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, imagined a city of serenely bucolic resting places.

4.   He also imagined a city dominated by electricity, even to the point of describing street advertisements in lights.

5.   Imagine a city of inordinate peace, where construction snarls traffic only after dark and the jackhammers are quiet enough to come out at night.

6.   Imagine a city where there is no pro football, no pro baseball and no pro hockey.

7.   It makes the visitor imagine a city that has, somehow, stood still in time.

8.   It has rewired the neural circuitry with which the contemporary city is imagined.

9.   PHOENIX - Imagine a city bigger than Flagstaff, composed entirely of delirious Diamondbacks devotees, howling hockey fans and sophisticated theater aficionados.

10.   Shonna Keoghan, the spokeswoman for the City Consumer Affairs Department, said she could not imagine the city trying to license activity protected by the First Amendment.