metropolis
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A consistent message emerged: Los Angeles was not a beautiful, vibrant metropolis with serious problems, but a hellhole verging on being lost for good.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
Next month's World Cup, where Los Angeles is hosting eight matches, was supposed to allow the Californian metropolis to burnish its image, just two years before the city hosts the Olympic Games.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
San Diego is a rare example of a nearby metropolis that has been able to convince more builders to build more.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
More than anything, “Glorious Country” is an absorbing contribution to the life story of a metropolis.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Los Angeles soon became unlike any other city the world had ever seen, sprawling and horizontal, a thoroughly suburban metropolis of detached homes — a glimpse of the future, molded by the automobile.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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