TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
PROBLEM: Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin 's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ( " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny " ) .

SOLUTION: Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin 's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory ( " ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny " ) claiming that an individual organism 's biological development , or ontogeny , parallels and summarises its species ' evolutionary development , or phylogeny .

PROBLEM: Whereas architecture focuses on individual buildings , urban design is about the design of whole neighbourhoods and entire cities .

SOLUTION: In contrast to architecture , which focuses on the design of individual buildings , urban design deals with the larger scale of groups of buildings , streets and public spaces , whole neighbourhoods and districts , and entire cities , with the goal of making urban areas functional , attractive , and sustainable .

PROBLEM: It is part of the Charlotte metropolitan area .

SOLUTION:
It is part of the Charlotte metropolitan area , officially designated the Charlotte Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) .