But they say that to emerge as a real cultural powerhouse, a city must fulfill a variety of criteria, including some that defy government planning here.

They underscored just what a cultural powerhouse the theater has been.

Despite these immense challenges however, Western Europe again rose as an economic and cultural powerhouse.

The emerging of the city as a cultural powerhouse came at the cost of a sharp increase in taxes.

Sheikha Mayassa mission is for the QMA to turn Qatar into a cultural powerhouse.

It may be a relatively tiny council, in terms of geographical area, but it is an internationally-renowned economic and cultural powerhouse.

But can Londonderry convince the world it is a cultural powerhouse and finally throw off the shackles of its troubled past, notably Bloody Sunday in 1972?

Honolulu is a teeming cultural and economic powerhouse, but in under an hour you can be alone in the rainforest or snoozing on white sand.

London has absolutely nothing on the cultural powerhouses of Europe like Paris, Rome, even Berlin.

But, at the same time, it also became a cultural exporting powerhouse.