Crossword clues for megalopolis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Megalopolis \Meg`a*lop"o*lis\ (m[e^]g`[.a]*l[o^]p"[-o]*l[i^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. megalo`polis; me`gas, mega`lh, great + po`lis city.] A chief city; a metropolis. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a metropolis; a megacity.
WordNet
n. a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)
Wikipedia
Megalopolis (Greek for large city, great city) may refer to:
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Megalopolis (city type), an extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas
- See also, Megacity, Agglomeration, or Ecumenopolis
- Megalopolis, modern Latin name for the Mecklenburg region, Germany
- Megalopolis, Greece, now known as Megalópoli
- Aphrodisias, a small city in Caria, Asia Minor, previously named Megale Polis
- Doomed Megalopolis, an anime rendition of the Japanese literary epic Teito Monogatari
- Megalopolis, the name of a film project by Francis Ford Coppola
- Metropolis
A megalopolis (sometimes called a megapolis; also megaregion, or supercity) is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas. The term was used by Patrick Geddes in his 1915 book Cities in Evolution, by Oswald Spengler in his 1918 book The Decline of the West, and Lewis Mumford in his 1938 book The Culture of Cities, which described it as the first stage in urban overdevelopment and social decline. Later, it was used by Jean Gottmann in his landmark 1961 study, Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States, to describe the chain of metropolitan areas along the northeastern seaboard of the U.S. extending from Boston, Massachusetts, through New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and ending in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia. The latter is sometimes called the " BosWash megalopolis".
Usage examples of "megalopolis".
Shenzhen was a megalopolis in a hurry, a boom town city going at a furious pace twenty-four hours a day, running at full blast on the high octane fuel that was the most profane of words in all of Communist China: capitalism.
Used to the megalopolis of Los Angeles, Rudy found the city very small, but there had been a grandeur to it, a walled unity with which the sprawling, featureless towns of his own experience could not compare.
Texas countryside, were the shining spokes of the solar farms, alternating with green strips of cropland growing chimeric soycorn and peanuts and wingbeans food and energy for the megalopolis and its satellite cities.
In urban areas, like the Houston-Dallasworth megalopolis, it goes up to ten thousand.
By the beginning of the 25th century the seat of the Confederation government had grown from a small city of 100,000 into a megalopolis of more than ten million people occupying the entire 1,200 square miles of what had been Cass County, North Dakota.
Everywhere beyond, the ancient city stretched away, a megalopolis of vanished giants, dead since dinosaurs had ruled the far-off Earth.
Someday this would be all part of a Eureka-Crescent City-Vineland megalopolis, but for now the primary sea coast, forest, riverbanks and bay were still not much different from what early visitors in Spanish and Russian ships had seen.
Amid this megalopolis of constructs, Piper found a particular network address and pushed her signal inside.
Nobody got into the megalopolis nowadays without a full scope and NAC.
Twelve hundred odd miles to the west was the megalopolis of Los Angeles, his home.
Soho crowd, to his humble but lucrative sinecure in the Megalopolis Galleria, where he set up shop after that vast shopping mall elected a governor and declared statehood.
Flint looked from his partner to the enormous megalopolis shimmering in the distance, and then back.
The following week he began a systematic tour of the local retreats, those incredibly valuable pieces of real estate that extended from the westernmost portions of the Chicago megalopolis halfway to the Mississippi River.
I stood by the viewall, looking out across megalopolis, and it was tawdry.
Dry, scrub desert seems an unlikely place for a future megalopolis to sprout -- ignoring Los Angeles.