Over 60 years ago Siegfried Kracauer wrote in From Caligari to Hitler: "Metropolis was rich in subterranean content that, like contraband, had crossed the borders of consciousness without being questioned".
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Illustrating what may be a Blade Runner-esque glimpse of the future in metropolises where rich and poor are crammed together, helicopters are the vehicle of choice for more than just their convenience.
The antipolio effort also took aim at the shanties and slums where migrants live, to vaccinate the children of construction workers, farm laborers and other poor people who have journeyed to India's great metropolises and rich agricultural areas in search of jobs.
Here was the shopping mall for a rich metropolis and later, a grand basilica next door.
But a decade-long effort to revitalize the city's downtown has transformed this former jazz mecca, which straddles the Kansas-Missouri border, back into a culturally rich metropolis.
Cellophane-taped at the intersection of folk art and commercial speech, by-products of a metropolis with a rich and funky graffiti culture, they are ephemera about "ephemera," not to mention "knickknacks" and "bric-a-brac" and "doodads" and "tchotchkes".
The ancient metropolis has a rich cultural history, stunning medieval architecture, a temperate climate and even holds a spot on the United Nations' list of World Heritage sites.
Hot in your highly advanced transportation box shuttling you in and out of your rich metropolis every two to four minutes?
The Kenwood Ladies Pond onn Hampstead Heath (which, consisting of miles of sprawling green inside England's largest metropolis, has a rich history itself of providing people with a physical space to escape) was originally dug as a reservoir in the 18th century.
