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megalopolis

 
     
  A Greek word (combining the terms for great and city) adapted by Jean Gottmann (1964) to describe the discontinuous urban complex of the north-eastern seaboard of the US (cf. conurbation). (RJJ)

Reference Gottmann, J. 1964: Megalopolis: the urbanized northeastern seaboard of the United States. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
 
 

 

 

 
 
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