metropolitanness

[...] the "metropolitanness" of Indian newspapers is now declining year by year. Between 1962 and 1963 the number of dailies published from State capitals increased slightly from 199 to 204. Those published from cities with populations greater than 100,000 fell from 219 to 185.

1965, The Indian Journal of Public Administration, page 87

For 'metropolitanness', we distinguish among core counties of SMSAs (i.e., the county or counties containing the central city or cities of an SMSA), suburbs and non-metropolitan areas. Preliminary investigations showed that the relationship between metropolitanness of residence and likelihood of living near a child exhibited in both the South and the West differed substantially from the patterns for [...]

1992, Elderly Migration and Population Redistribution, page 85

The Federal Insitute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) works presently on a European-wide analysis about the 'metropolitanness' of places. The result is a calculation of a metropolitan function index.

2011, Reshaping Regional Policy, page 135

As a young man in the 1950s, conscious of his status as a colonial subject and writer, V. S. Naipaul found in Evelyn Waugh a compelling model of "a particular kind of writing personality." Naipaul describes this writing personality as "metropolitan," and identifies certain qualities that accompany or constitute its metropolitanness: sexual knowledge, elegance, aloofness, wit, and style.

2014, Jonathan Greenberg, “Travel Writing as Modernist Autobiography: Evelyn Waugh's Labels and the Writing Personality”, in Modernism and Autobiography, page 69