If that happens, population size – currently the motor of the modern metropolis – will become a liability.

Big, brash and full of chutzpah, this modern metropolis has a style and an ambience all of its own.

Here he shows himself as a poet of the modern metropolis, less a disengaged flâneur than a disillusioned eyewitness.

It has been transformed into a modern metropolis, embracing 21st-century style and technology.

It was therefore set for massive redevelopment to become a modern metropolis.

But now his own lack of personal organisation has left him in a flat in a part of the sprawling metropolis where taxis don't venture.

The sprawling metropolis has been particularly affected because an estimated six in ten of its 20million population live in slums.

Trawling a sprawling metropolis for his subject matter, he made images that could speak to rich and poor alike.

The city has grown from its original centre along the river to a sprawling metropolis surrounded by swaths of suburban residential development extending north and south into neighbouring provinces.