Gehry's Rheinhafen Centre – a haphazard huddle of high-rise buildings which looks as if it's about to topple over into the river – symbolises the creative verve of this upbeat metropolis.
After gaining international recognition in his 2001 campaign with his statement "Ich bin schwul und das ist gut so" ("I'm gay and that's OK"), Wowereit went on to paint Berlin as the "poor but sexy" city, a magnet for young creatives and an attractive international metropolis.
Besides creating an illusion of flying into Gotham like Batman and into Metropolis like Superman is creative.
We live in a community that is one of the most creative subsections of a forward thinking metropolis, and we want to remind people that all over the world, being queer is something that involves a fight every moment of every day.
Cities like London, Milan, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen are not only major metropolises but also major creative centres with hundreds of thousands employed in the creative industries.
It is a deliberate tactic for injecting a fragment of urbanity — a hint of the social, ethnic and creative frictions that defined the 20th-century metropolis — into an otherwise lifeless Midwestern strip.
In this account, provincialism comes to mean more than specifically or even narrowly local, lacking the sweep and confidence and up-to-dateness of the metropolis - it means finding "a greater creative stimulus" in the refusal of those modernities which a capital city is always quick to embrace.
3. Thriving little metropolises... (metropoli?).
As a result, young people all around the wealthy metropolis have been squatting in and making other creative use of forlorn buildings, which are often surrounded by real estate of stratospheric value, for decades.
Space did not permit a description of Porat's two-hour-long piano improvisation for a showing of Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis," but it was an astounding feat of creative musicianship.
