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A megalopolis (/ ˌ m ɛ ɡ ə ˈ l ɒ p ə l ɪ s /) or a supercity, [1] also called a megaregion, [2] is a group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transport, economy, resources, ecology, and so on. [2]
Gottmann directed "A Study of Megalopolis" for The Twentieth Century Fund, applying that term to an analysis of the urbanized northeastern seaboard of the U.S. spanning from Boston in the north to Washington, D.C. in the south and including New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, which was named the Northeast megalopolis, [4] [5] which ...
Megacities are a common backdrop in dystopian science fiction, with examples such as the Sprawl in William Gibson's Neuromancer, [58] and Mega-City One, a megalopolis of between 50 and 800 million people (fluctuations due to war and disaster) across the east coast of the United States, in the Judge Dredd comic. [59]
Megalopolis or Megacity – contains more than ten million residents in total and is often a conurbation or metropolis grown into a continuous urban area. Upper medium density: quarter million to one million residents
If Megalopolis is any indication, the answer, sadly, is no. The movie is ambitious, yes, but in a way that's so clumsy as to be comical. Characters speak in elliptical, pseudo-Shakespearean runes ...
Megalopolis is billed as an epic science-fiction drama, following the rebuilding of a major metropolis razed by a disaster, and at its heart, the fierce battle between a visionary architect and ...
Francis Ford Coppola has been trying to get his sci-fi drama "Megalopolis" made since the '80s. Coppola ended up funding it himself for $120 million. Here are all the controversies surrounding the ...
Tokyo, the world's largest city and metropolitan area. A city can be defined by the inhabitants of its demographic population, as by metropolitan area, or labour market area.