megalopolis

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• LAMB: Living in this kind of megalopolis that we do here on the East Coast. Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster
• By the 1960s, urban sprawl had created enormous megalopolises.
• Due to the constant earthquakes, this megalopolis does not and cannot have a good public transportation system in the form of subways to diffuse the load on its roads.
• These megalopolises have swelled with 100 million new residents since the mid-1970s.
• Aeschines was sent on an embassy to Megalopolis where he sought to dissuade the assembly of the Arcadians from dealings with Philip II.
• On Sept. 10, 1994, a New South Wales naturalist named David Noble abseiled into one of the more than 500 canyons in Wollemi National Park -- some 60 miles east of the megalopolis of Sydney -- and discovered a stand of prehistoric coniferous Wollemi pines, representing the 110-million-year-old supercontinent of Gondwanaland. Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur
• That's what Sweden-based Boblbee Inc. had in mind when it designed Peoples Delite, a hard-shell backpack that allows you to pack it all in, and Megalopolis, its big-sister version.
• The first, as Mumford, who considered Geddes “my master,” explained, was to plan cities at a human scale to avoid the sprawling modern megalopolis, which Mumford called “the last word in imageless urban amorphousness.” Makeshift Metropolis
• But the band has been enjoying a surge in nationwide popularity among 14 to 25 year olds, and the 30, 000 tickets for a recent concert in Megalopolis sold out in 12 minutes.
• The creators of the Judge Dredd comic strip acknowledge Calhoun's influence in the depiction of their lawless "megalopolis", Mega City One. The Guardian World News