Metropolis (disambiguation)
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A metropolis is a city that is a major cultural or economic center. More specifically:
Metropolis may also refer to:
[edit] Places
- Metropolis, Cosenza, Italy
- Metropolis, Illinois, United States
- Metropolis, Nevada, United States
- Metropolis (comics), the fictional hometown of comic book hero Superman
- Metropolis at Metrotown, the second-largest shopping center in Canada
- Metropolis (Toronto), a high-profile development underway in Toronto, Canada
- Metropolis Building, a building known for its architectural design located in Madrid, Spain
- The chief city of an ecclesiastical province is known as a metropolis.
[edit] Film and television
- Metropolis (film), a 1927 silent science-fiction film by Fritz Lang
- Metropolis (musical), a 1989 musical based on the 1927 film of the same name
- Metropolis (2001 film), an anime film based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka
- Metropolis (TV station), a music television station in Serbia
[edit] Music
- Metropolis (Client album), a compilation album by Client
- Metropolis (Kraftwerk song), a song by synth band Kraftwerk
- Metropolis (Jeff Mills album), an album by Jeff Mills
- Metropolis (Interpol song), song by the New York indie rock band Interpol
- Metropolis (Sister Machine Gun album), an album by industrial band Sister Machine Gun
- Metropolis (Swords album), an album by the American indie rock group Swords
- Metropolis Records, a record label that specializes in industrial, EBM, and electro music
- Metropolis: A Blue Fantasy, a 1928 orchestral work by Ferde Grofé
- Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper, a song by the progressive metal band Dream Theater
- Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, a 1999 album by the group Dream Theater
- Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York, a 2001 DVD of live performances by the group Dream Theater
- Metropolis (quartet), a popular, internationally-ranked barbershop quartet
[edit] Books and Magazines
- Metropolis (novel), a novel by Upton Sinclair
- Metropolis (English magazine in Japan), Japan's highest distribution English-language magazine
- Metropolis (American magazine), an American architecture and interior design magazine
- Metropolis Daily, a free newspaper published in Hong Kong
- Superman's Metropolis, a comic book trilogy from DC Comics
- Captain Metropolis, a character in Watchmen, a comic book written by Alan moore and published by DC Comics
[edit] Mathematics
- Nicholas Metropolis (1915 – 1999), a mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project
- Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, a statistical procedure named after mathematicians Nicholas Metropolis and W.K. Hastings
- Metropolis light transport, an application of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for creating images from descriptions of 3-dimensional scenes
[edit] Transportation
- Alstom Metropolis, an urban railway rolling stock
- Metropolis (airline), a Dutch airline company
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