She retorted by imprisoning him and by suspending him from the exercise of his metropolitan functions.
Nevertheless, the Alpine city in performing metropolitan functions is running a risk.
In the Alps, metropolitan functions should coexist with the physical and cultural traits of a mountain territory.
This role is particularly crucial in the Alps, which are now the scene of relevant changes, involving above all cities that are embracing metropolitan functions.
There isn't an idea of restoration of a lost urbanity, but the creation of a new value through the reduction of traditional metropolitan functions, the reuse of derelict spaces and the recycle of urban surviving materials.
In the Alps there are cities which appear able to perform metropolitan functions and therefore play an important role in European-wide urban competition (Perlik et al. 2001; Dematteis 2009; Perlik and Messerli 2004) and again, dynamic places which, although unable to count on the presence of a large urban centre, nevertheless manage to perform as a city by activating precious synergies.
However, the City Corporation successfully lobbied to preserve its autonomy and secured the creation of a second tier of elected local governments, the metropolitan boroughs, to function as a political counterweight to the LCC.
Since 1990, both the autobahn and railway systems have been expanded in order to serve Berlin's metropolitan and capital functions.
To this aim, the paper presents some hedonic Multiple Linear Regression models (MLR) estimating the housing price in metropolitan areas as a function of real-estate, environmental and accessibility variables.
Most of the functions of GMCC were devolved to the ten Greater Manchester metropolitan district councils, though functions such as emergency services and public transport were taken over by joint boards and continued to be run on a county-wide basis.
Land-use changes and urban sprawl have transformed European cities, with a direct impact on both metropolitan structures and socioeconomic functions.
