Metropolis

Metropolis” broadly refers to the largest, most powerful and culturally influential city of an epoch or region. Historically, the metropolis is a city that is relatively open, attracts commercial and other forms of exchange, and offers opportunities for sophisticated living. A succession of great metropolitan cities charts the course of western urban history. In this history, three forms of the metropolis can be identified. In antiquity, cities such as Athens and Rome developed the political and cultural potentialities of the polis , in part laying foundations for the later emergence of western urban democracies. With the revival of urban life in the Middle Ages, a strong symbiotic relationship between the form of the metropolis and economic growth was revealed, leading to the rebirth of the metropolis as the great mercantile, commercial, and later industrial center of modern capitalism. More recently, globalization and decentralization, vastly aided by new communication and transportation technologies, have transformed the metropolis from a single‐centered, bounded urban entity into a multicentered urbanized region extending over a vast geographic area. Within the rise, fall, and transformation of the metropolis are shards of a cultural continuity stretching over millennia

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