A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs.
A metropolitan area usually combines an agglomeration (the contiguous built-up area) with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character, but closely bound to the centre by employment or commerce; these zones are also sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban periphery depending on the definition used.
The core cities in a polycentric metropolitan area need not be physically connected by continuous built-up development, distinguishing the concept from conurbation, which requires urban contiguity. In a metropolitan area, it is sufficient that central cities together constitute a large population nucleus with which other constituent parts have a high degree of integration.
Group to advocate rights for gays Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:50:00 -0500 An organization has been formed to advocate for the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender men and women in Northern Kentucky. Students can tour Thomas More Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:48:00 -0500 Thomas More College will hold an open house for high school students Oct. 18. It starts at 10 a.m. in the Holbrook Student Center and ends at 1 p.m. with lunch in Seiler Commons. Cemetery still recovering Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:51:00 -0500 The windstorm that tore through Louisville last month did more than inconvenience the living. It damaged trees in Cave Hill Cemetery's arboretum and battered century-old marble monuments to the dead.
