The Walt Disney Center, with it's fabulous architecture, across from the Catholic Taj Mahal, Our Lady of the Angels $300 million... thing...(they even have a gift shop and their own wine, no lie)...amongst the towering corporate logos could not have felt any more Metropolis or world class if it tried.
"Beijing will surely emerge as a world-class metropolis by 2008," Mayor Liu told the delegates.
We need designs that will truly revive and support our economy and satisfy our dreams for a world-class metropolis.
Over the past 13 years, Panama City has been racing to become a world-class metropolis, and for travelers, the changes have been enormous.
For 15 hours on Tuesday, New York City may more closely resemble an emerging democracy than the world-class metropolis it makes itself out to be.
During that time, the province's population more than tripled in size, and Vancouver emerged as a world-class metropolis and major port on the Pacific Rim.
Chronic underfunding of an overburdened public-transport network, and the council's lengthy wrangling over a new plan have created a shabby and truncated subway that is unfit for the world-class metropolis Toronto claims to be.
Given the wide popularity of the turbocharged Mr. Barenboim, this would be a blow to Berlin, which sees culture as central to its ambitious plans to become a "Weltstadt" -- a world-class metropolis.
It had been hailed as Europe's most modern airport and was seen as one of the last major building blocks in the project to turn Berlin into a world-class metropolis, two decades after the fall of the iron curtain.
Dubai is still a thriving metropolis with world-class attractions on its doorstep.
