"metropolitan setting" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a location or environment in a large, busy, and densely populated city or urban area. Example: The novel is set in a futuristic metropolitan setting, where towering buildings and advanced technology coexist with poverty and social inequality.
But if, as a thought experiment, we were to transfer the problem to a smaller, leafier, less metropolitan setting, it becomes a no-brainer.
Even after her death at age 83, Konigsburg's book continues to make waves; visitors of the Met remember the book's Metropolitan setting, and can live out childhood fantasies within the museum walls.
By contrast Bryant Park, where the concerts have been moved during the museum's renovations, is a decidedly metropolitan setting, where the music plays against a background of passing buses, the neon of fast-food joints and a gentle hum of traffic.
By turns lugubrious and histrionic, this film is a little like Charles Sturridge's version of A Handful of Dust, Neil Jordan's The End of the Affair, with something of Iain Softley's The Wings of the Dove in its metropolitan setting - but without the gaiety and exoticism and mystery that coloured those pictures.
Metropolitan setting is different from rural setting and triggers might differ.
To see images of the Floating Nest in it's metropolitan setting, click here.
The chancellor at 43 seems to personify the metropolitan set around his Notting Hill friend, David Cameron.
For geriatrician prescribing, most of the socioeconomic differences were explained by patients' metropolitan/non-metropolitan setting.
They may have the album, they may well know the songs, but the sight of the London Metropolitan Orchestra setting up at the back of the stage still causes bewilderment among the riotous beer boys at the front of the stage.
Last month, Tokyo's metropolitan government set up a committee that includes a bank analyst, an economics professor and an analyst from a rating agency to set up guidelines on how to manage its money, most of which is placed in deposits at 20 banks.
In this world, the divergence in high and low cost markets could persist indefinitely, until a shock of some sort disrupted the value of the externalities holding high-cost cities together.As a model of housing cost dynamics and metropolitan skill sets, I don't know if this actually holds up.
