Nevertheless, one comes away from this book reminded of what a magnificent city Johannesburg is – a fierce, ambitious, global metropolis, sharper than London, more bolshie even than New York.
On Jan . 10 , 1927Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," a wildly ambitious, hugely expensive science fiction allegory of filial revolt, romantic love, alienated labor and dehumanizing technology opened at the Ufa Palast theater in Berlin.
But both were outdone by Fritz Lang, whose monumental Metropolis became the most ambitious, most expensive, and most influential silent film ever made.
He also offered the strongest official response yet to the scandal surrounding Bo Xilai, the ambitious party secretary of the Chongqing metropolis who spearheaded a much-publicized crackdown on corruption with the city's police chief at the time, Wang Lijun.
So in 2006 he and a team of eight studio assistants, including an engineer, began "Metropolis II," a far more ambitious version.
Originally, "smart cities" was mainly a label for ambitious projects to build a shiny new metropolis on green fields or in the desert.
CHONGQING, China — In the chill of late January, around the time Chinese were celebrating the Lunar New Year, the police chief of this foggy southwestern metropolis pressed Bo Xilai, the ambitious Communist Party official who ruled the area, with evidence that Mr. Bo's wife had been involved in a murder.
As the region's population goes on growing, several plans for improving its infrastructure have emerged, ranging from a central-area project developed by the city's planners to a more ambitious regional scheme that comes from a group called Metropolis 2020.
In both of Krist's stories, William Tobias Merrick, a pleasant and ambitious young man from the country, travels to the metropolis determined to make his fortune not from tangible commodities but from the newfangled money markets.
3. Thriving little metropolises... (metropoli?).
