Concept information
Preferred term
metropolitan
Definition
- Metropolitan generally refers to a city and the surrounding urbanized area. The term originates in ancient Greece, where a city that had established colonies in other lands was known as a metropolis (meter “mother” + polis “city”; literally the mother city, a city that had offspring). [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Metropolitan]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/metropolitan
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