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an extremely large city or urban (= city) area where a lot of people live: Today Shenzhen is a megalopolis of 13 million people. The landscape will just become one undifferentiated sprawling megalopolis. Compare. metropolis. Fewer examples. New Jersey is at the centercentre of the megalopolis, which extends from Boston to Washington.
A megalopolis (/ ˌ m ɛ ɡ ə ˈ l ɒ p ə l ɪ s /) or a supercity, also called a megaregion, 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.
A "large city" named Megalopolis was founded in Greece in 371 B.C. to help defend the region called Arcadia against the city-state of Sparta. Though a stadium seating 20,000 was built there, indicating the city's impressive size for its time, Megalopolis today has only about 5,000 people.
MEGALOPOLIS meaning: 1 : a very large city; 2 : an area that includes a large city or several large cities
Megalopolis is a 2024 American epic science fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola.
Jun 13, 2018 · What is a Megalopolis? The Nile River Delta stretches about 18,000 square miles and is home to approximately 41 million people. A megalopolis is formed when several urban areas that had been separated for a while merge to form one huge metropolitan region over time due to the growth and expansion of the fragmented urban centers.
Nov 22, 2022 · As the world moves towards total urbanisation, settlements are spreading out by merging into one another to create what urban experts term “ megalopolises ”. How machines saw cities grow. The...
May 16, 2024 · The Madly Captivating Urban Sprawl of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” After a thirteen-year absence, a great American director returns with an ambitious vision of a city—and a world—in need...
Apr 12, 2024 · Apr 12, 2024 7:30 AM. The More People Say Megalopolis Is Unsellable, the More We Need to See It. Sci-fi fiends have a long history of saving their darlings. Francis Ford Coppola’s epic...
May 16, 2024 · “Megalopolis,” the first film from the director Francis Ford Coppola in 13 years, premiered Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. Self-financed by Coppola, the $120 million passion project has...
