A citywide network of pillar-post telephones was also installed to facilitate greater communication between the police and members of the public.

There, architects and planners first created an ambitious citywide network of parks and other public spaces.

Yet as Taipei has found out, just building a citywide network does not guarantee that people will use it.

They not only held parties, members say, but did good works throughout their communities and gave upwardly mobile blacks a needed citywide network of professional contacts.

Perhaps the most visible part of EarthLink's new strategy so far has been its effort to build citywide wireless networks.

The citywide rental network emulates those in cities such as Paris, where they have long been common.

The event was part of a citywide network of "house parties" the Bloomberg campaign has held to energize volunteers.

Chicago announced in February that it would build a citywide wireless network requiring no public financing.

In San Francisco, Google is considering building a free citywide network.

RCN officials hope to use the Liberty system as a foundation for their own citywide network.