Much of it is open weed farms still, which is very odd in the middle of a vast, crowded metropolis.

Third is the issue of open space, that fast-disappearing and irretrievable natural resource that is so precious for our crowded metropolis.

Its change of heart shows welcome recognition that in a crowded metropolis, illegal parking punishes everyone.

The South Bronx may never become the crowded metropolis it was in 1950, but neither is it going to shrink away to a suburb of one-family homes.

That is unacceptable in a crowded metropolis, where summer heat and humidity can reach triple digits.

How had it been, arriving for the first time in the crowded metropolis of Accra?

Outside, in the colder reality of the crowded metropolis, he kept his identity and Popeek rank quietly to himself.

A compass for orientation can be critical in the wilderness (and useful even in a crowded metropolis).

Most residential buildings in this very crowded Asian metropolis are more than twenty storeys tall, with some reaching forty or fifty storeys and the tallest over seventy.

We had been drawn to his bird sanctuary by the idea of beautiful creatures living in cages, an apt metaphor for life in this creative but crowded metropolis.