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| + | A '''metropolis''' is a large [[city]] or [[urban area]] which is a significant [[economic]], [[political]], and [[cultural]] center for a [[country]] or [[region]], and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. The term is Greek and means the "mother city" of a [[Colonies in antiquity|colony]] (in the ancient sense), that is, the city which sent out settlers. This was later generalized to a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or any large, important city in a nation. | ||
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| + | A big city belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which is not the core of that agglomeration, is not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. The plural of the word is most commonly ''metropolises''. | ||
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| + | For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the concept of the [[regiopolis]], short ''regio'', was introduced by German professors in 2006. | ||
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| + | == See also == | ||
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| + | * [[Metropolitan area]] | ||
| + | ; Other city types | ||
| + | * [[Global city]] | ||
| + | * [[Megacity]] | ||
| + | * [[Megalopolis (city type)|Megalopolis]] | ||
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| + | ; Lists | ||
| + | * [[List of metropolitan areas by population]] | ||
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| + | ; Planning theories | ||
| + | * [[New Urbanism]] | ||
| + | * [[Smart growth]] | ||
| + | * [[Transit-oriented development]] | ||
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| + | ; Other | ||
| + | * [[Ekistics]] | ||
| + | * [[Large Cities Climate Leadership Group]] | ||
| + | * [[Sustainable city]] | ||
| + | * [[World's largest cities]] | ||
| - | The '''metropole''', from the Greek Metropolis 'mother city' (polis being a city state, hence also used for any colonizing 'mother country'; in ecclesiastical languages an archbishopric having precedence over the suffragans in its ecclesiastical province) was the name given to the [[United Kingdom|British]] metropolitan center of the [[British Empire]], i.e. the United Kingdom itself. This was even extended, such that [[London]] became the metropole of the British Empire, insofar as its politicians and businessmen determined the economic, diplomatic, and military character of the rest of the Empire. By contrast, the [[periphery]] was the rest of the Empire, outside the British Isles themselves. | ||
| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | *[[Metropolis]] | ||
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A metropolis is a large city or urban area which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. The term is Greek and means the "mother city" of a colony (in the ancient sense), that is, the city which sent out settlers. This was later generalized to a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or any large, important city in a nation.
A big city belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which is not the core of that agglomeration, is not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. The plural of the word is most commonly metropolises.
For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the concept of the regiopolis, short regio, was introduced by German professors in 2006.
See also
- Other city types
- Lists
- Planning theories
- Other
