1. 大城市区域：作者认为,现在对城市区域进行概括所曾使用的一些词汇,包括大城市区域(Metropolitan Area)、城市群(Metropolis)、城市聚集区(Comurbantion)等已经显得过时,它们能表达城市量级和空间结构的巨大变化,但不能反映它的本质.
2. 都市区：大都市(区)(metropolitan area)一般是指一个大的人口核心以及与这个核心具有高度社会经济一体化倾向的邻接社区的组合,它是一种城市功能地域概念,是城市化发展到较高阶段的产物.
1. All elementary and secondary schools in the metropolitan area are closed for the day.
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2. AMC will continue to control film programming and remain headquartered in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
3. The US Department of State has issued a travel alert warning its citizens of the possibility of violence in Jamaica's Kingston Metropolitan area.
4. Residents reported buildings shaking across the metropolitan area and other parts of southeastern Victoria state, recently ravaged by wildfires which killed 210 people.
5. London's Metropolitan police said the latest suspect was detained around noon in the Thames Valley area just west of London.
6. Record rainfall since Monday has triggered deadly mudslides across Rio's metropolitan area.
7. The people were selected at random from all geographic sectors of the Baghdad metropolitan area, and more than nine in 10 agreed to participate.
8. Ike was the first storm to hit a major US metropolitan area since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.
9. The local Peninsula Metropolitan News reported the fire started at the bottom of the boat, which is the living area of the crew.
10. The New York metropolitan area has a population of about 19 million.