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Metropolis 347 started in January 2006 as the media outlet for an urban anthropology class taught by Joshua Barker at the University of Toronto. As a group blog dedicated to thoughtful, playful, and informative reflection on city cultures and urban life, the blog was expanded to include graduate students, community activists, and others interested in sharing knowledge about cities in general. In January of 2007, students from another metropolis class at the University of Washington in Seattle began contributing their perspectives. The Metropolis blog gets even more cosmopolitan.