For more than a quarter-century, beginning with his unexpected rise at age 33 to the position of publisher of The Los Angeles Times, which had been run by his father and grandfather and great-grandfather before him, Otis Chandler was a figure of the first importance in the nation's second most important metropolis.
Rams management believes Los Angeles gives them an identity that is appealing around the world, conjuring images of a glamorous and important metropolis.
Perhaps most important, it is on the same 16 acres where two towering temples to capitalism would one day be built that New York made its sometimes painful transition from a tiny colonial trading post to the most important metropolis in the world.
At its heart is Joko Widodo, a candidate whose message of change has propelled him into the upstart contender for leader of one of Asia's most important metropolises.
Although she was describing cities built of bricks and mortar, her ideas about cultivating vibrancy feel relevant today, as some of the most important metropolises of the 21st century are being constructed online, where chaos is in no short supply.
Beyond sports, Cleveland's decline as an important American metropolis is arguably unmatched, having tumbled from a population peak of 900,000-plus in 1950 to less than 400,000 today.
However, Seville was once the most important city in the Spanish Empire, and a global metropolis when it monopolized trade with 'the Indies'.
When I reread Jejuri now, I realise how important the modern metropolis before globalisation - with its secret openings and avenues, its pockets of daydreaming, idling, and loitering, its loucheness - is fundamental to Kolatkar as a way of seeing.
The historical links between France and Senegal are still perceptible through the size of the Senegalese diaspora, three times more important in the former metropolis than in the U.S. (see Tables 1 and 2).
The first of China's four great ancient capitals (the other three being Luoyang, Nanjing and Beijing), Xi'an's hoary past has laid claim to 10 ancient dynasties, the most famous being the Han Dynasty (206BC to 220AD) and the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907AD), during which the city was a booming metropolis as important as Rome.
Thus while spaces for new ideas and ingredients were being created in the peripheries, confrmation from the metropolis remained important.
