Sentence examples for compact metropolis from inspiring English sources

And the beautiful thing about Helsinki is that this compact metropolis of 1.2 million people is made for walking.

Much of the best of Copenhagen is accessible on foot; this is a compact metropolis, with only 600,000 people in the city proper.

Although not all of this relatively compact metropolis of about 330,000 people holds interest, the old part of the city, which lies at the center, does, and its most picturesque streets lie along the Ljubljanica River, which is latticed with stone bridges and hemmed by weeping willows.

Still, it feels strange to be enjoying a cocktail in a riverside bar and to spot that physical manifestation, however small, of his existence and his influence over this compact metropolis and the sprawling reality of Siberia beyond.

It's a compact, cosmopolitan metropolis in which you're never too far from the glories of the Scottish countryside.

DURING two decades of rapid economic growth, Santiago has gone from a compact city at the foot of the Andean cordillera to a sprawling metropolis of some 6m people.

Cardiff is a compact city.

Not only is the inner metropolis flat and compact, but it also gets very little snow (none, in fact, since 1950), and the city celebrated its 2009 centennial by building 100km of dedicated bike paths.

In recent years, accompanied by the massive increased urban population density and the compact built environment, the challenge lies in Asian metropolis has evoked the promotion of human health and well-being.

3. Thriving little metropolises... (metropoli?).

The Wellbeing Project could, it seems, have no more suitable proving ground than this compact, manageable (in Cole's words) "cool city that has money" – but what about the larger, considerably more troubled metropolises of the world, starting with the one just past Santa Monica's city limits?