Metropolis (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Places 2 Fictional places 3 Film, radio and television 4 Music 5 Books and Magazines 6 Mathematics 7 Transportation 8 Organizations

A metropolis is a large city, and/or a major cultural or economic center.

Metropolis may also refer to:

[edit] Places

• Metropolis, Cosenza, Italy
• Metropolis, Illinois, United States
• Metropolis, Nevada, United States
• Metropolis at Metrotown, the second-largest shopping center in Canada
• Metropolis Building, a building known for its architectural design located in Madrid, Spain
• Metropolis (mall), a shopping mall in Indiana
• Metropolis (Anatolia), a classical city in Turkey
• Metropolis, the chief city of an ecclesiastical province
• Metropolis, a name for London during the Victorian era
• Metropolis, the former name of the Toronto Life Square development, Toronto, Canada

[edit] Fictional places

• Metropolis (comics), the fictional city where comic book hero Superman lives
• Metropolis Zone, a three-act level in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) for the Sega Genesis
• Metropolis, a sky-high city on planet Kerwan in the Ratchet and Clank universe

[edit] Film, radio 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 (anime), an anime film based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka
• Metropolis (TV station), a music television station in Serbia
• Metropolis (KTXT), a comic book radio show in Lubbock, Texas

[edit] Music

• Metropolis (Client album), a compilation album by Client
• Metropolis (Jeff Mills album), an album by Jeff Mills
• 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", a song by synth band Kraftwerk from their 1978 album The Man-Machine
• "Metropolis", song by the band Motörhead
• "Metropolis", song by the band Amon Düül II
• "Metropolis", song by the band The Vision Bleak
• 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
• "Metropolis", a television news music package by Stephen Arnold. Commishioned by NBC affiliate WFLA in Tampa Bay, Florida.
• Metropolis (KCRW), a public radio music program hosted by Jason Bentley

[edit] Books and Magazines

• Metropolis (novel), a novel by Upton Sinclair
• Metropolis magazine, an English language magazine in Japan
• Metropolis (American magazine), an American architecture and 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
• Metropolis (manga), by Osamu Tezuka

[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

[edit] Organizations

• Metropolis Project, the world's largest international research project studying human migration