The prototype of the modern industrial metropolis arose from the charred landscap.

"That great plume of smoke over there, I think, is from the great industrial metropolis of Kohtla-Jarve."

During the Soviet era the city was transformed into a modern industrial metropolis of over a million people, to become a significant scientific and cultural centre.

Williams was born in the iron town of Dowlais situated above the industrial metropolis of Merthyr Tydfil.

It's hard to think of a less probable art center than Cologne, a grimy industrial metropolis on the Rhine with a population of about a million.

They were built at a time when the Gary Land Company was converting the area from tents and shacks for steelworkers into an industrial metropolis.

In 1909, he became Vice-Mayor of Cologne, an industrial metropolis with a population of 635,000 in 1914.

Those were the years that saw Gotham erupt as a world-class industrial metropolis.

But after more than a week in this dreary, industrial metropolis, visitors traditionally have escaped to Rio de Janeiro, one hour north by air.

One was a "modern" city, a bustling early industrial metropolis held' together by a network of streets, most of them striped with streetcar tracks.