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	Metropolitan area
		Megacity is a general term for cities together with their suburbs or recognized metropolitan area usually with a total population in excess of 10 million people.
		A megalopolis consists of several interconnected cities (and their suburbs), between which people commute, and which are so close together that suburbs can claim to be suburbs of more than one city.
		Cities so merged include Winnipeg, Manitoba (this merger antedates the term, and was called "Unicity" at the time), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Toronto, Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec, Gatineau, Quebec, Longueuil, Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec, Saguenay, Quebec, and Lévis, Quebec.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/m/me/metropolitan_area.html (602 words)

	Megacity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Megacity, megapolis, or megalopolis is a general term for cities together with their suburbs or recognized metropolitan areas usually with a total population in excess of 10 million people.
		Whereas the term city may denote importance, population size or legal status of a place, the term megacity concentrates on size only.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megapolis (602 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Megacity
		Megacity is a general term for cities together with their suburbs or recognized metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million people.
		In the comic 2000 A.D., the fictional Megacity One[?] is a megalopolis of 800 million people across the east coast of the United States, policed by Judge Dredd.
		Fictional megacities feature in much dystopian science fiction, with examples such as the Sprawl, featured in William Gibson's Neuromancer, and Mega-City One, a megalopolis of 800 million people across the east coast of the United States, featured in the comic 2000 AD.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Megacity (2867 words)

	Metropolitan Area
		The term metropolitan area is sometimes abbreviated to 'metro', for example in Metro Manila and Washington, DC Metro Area, and then should not be mistaken to mean the metro rail system of the city.
		Megacity is a general term for cities together with their suburbs or recognized metropolitan area usually with a total population in excess of 10 million people.
		A megalopolis consists of several interconnected cities (and their suburbs), between which people commute, and which are so close together that suburbs can claim to be suburbs of more than one city.
	www.wikiverse.org /metropolitan-area (755 words)

	Facts about topic: (Metropolitan area)
		If several metropolitan areas are located in succession, metropolitan areas are sometimes grouped together as a megalopolis (A very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)).
		In France (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) the term for a metropolitan area is an aire urbaine (additional info and facts about aire urbaine).
		A megalopolis consists of several interconnected cities (additional info and facts about cities) (and their suburbs), between which people commute, and which are so close together that suburbs can claim to be suburbs of more than one city.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/metropolitan_area.htm (570 words)

	Chicago, Illinois - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		The Chicago metropolitan area is known colloquially as Chicagoland, after a term promoted by the Chicago Tribune in the early 20th century.
		When combined with its surrounding suburbs and with Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chicago is part of a megalopolis.
		Chicago has many different nicknames and has been ranked as one of ten "alpha" world cities by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network ( GaWC ( http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb5.html)), and is recognized around the world for it's magnificent skyline, unique cuisine and an urban style that is all its own.
	www.indopedia.org /Chicago,_IL.html (570 words)

	Jean Gottmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Gottmann (October 10, 1915– February 28, 1994) was a French geographer who was most widely known for coining the term megalopolis to describe the condition of the Boston-Washington corridor.
		Gottmann started out as a research assistant in human geography at the Sorbonne (1937–41) under the guidance of Albert Demangeon, but was forced to leave his post with the Nazi invasion of France.
		He was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, though at the time it was a part of the Russian Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Gottmann (297 words)

	Encyclopedia: Metrolink (Southern California)
		Southern California Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, sometimes abbreviated SoCal or colloquially, the Southland, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the state of California.
		The term Southern California is sometimes used as a synonym for the Greater Los Angeles Area, but this is geographically inaccurate since it excludes the state's two southernmost counties: San Diego and Imperial.
		California is famous for its earthquakes due partly to the presence of the San Andreas Fault.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Metrolink-(Southern-California) (637 words)

	CSIndy: RoadKill (April 7, 2005)
		In 1961, renowned French geographer and Oxford scholar Jean Gottman coined the term "megalopolis" to refer to the merger of cities into an urban strip, and it became the title for his influential book published that year about the urbanization of America's northeastern seaboard.
		So far, growth on the Front Range has been spurred by the convenience of Interstate 25 and the region's unique attractions, making it the place where the best of the mountains overspill onto the best of the prairie.
		In the 1940s, his rancher parents, Roy and Lorene, would strap him into the back of their Buick and set out on Highway 94 for the city.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2005-04-07/cover.html (3156 words)

	Megalopolis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		French geographer who introduced the concept and term megalopolis for large urban configurations.
		"Megalopolis." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051789?tocId=9051789 (3156 words)

	Part II
		The term Interactive Megalopolis was adopted by the Magplane designers to describe the increased interaction between metropolitan regions that a Magplane mass transit system could provide.
		The Magplane is well suited to consolidate the four urban development patterns in the Yangtze River Delta Region identified by Chreod.
		Historically, mass transit systems within metropolitan regions in North America were financed by governments.
	www.magplane.com /html/word/11-5-2004.htm (3156 words)

	Stefan Metaal's Urban Sociology Site
		The term is in some ways similar to the earlier concepts of secular city and ecumenopolis, and also bares resemblance to Appadurai's -scapes, and postcolonialism in general.
		Gottmann wanted to distinguish the new residential areas in the megalopolis from suburbs.
		Therefore, unique new mixtures of culture come into being, which in turn may enter the global flow.
	members.chello.nl /smetaal/ufgl.htm (1272 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Metropolitan area
		The term metropolitan area is sometimes abbreviated to 'metro', for example in Metro Manila and Washington, DC Metro Area, and then should not be mistaken to mean the metro rail system of the city.
		A megalopolis consists of several interconnected cities (and their suburbs), between which people commute, and which are so close together that suburbs can claim to be suburbs of more than one city.
		A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Metropolitan_area (589 words)

	Wikipedia: Metropolitan area
		Megacity is a general term for cities together with their suburbs or recognized metropolitan area usually with a total population in excess of 10 million people.
		A megalopolis consists of several interconnected cities (and their suburbs), between which people commute, and which are so close together that suburbs can claim to be suburbs of more than one city.
		A metropolitan area is a large population center that consists of several cities or towns clustered together with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/m/me/metropolitan_area.html (543 words)

	Articles - Twin cities
		The term for a collection of many cities into a single socioeconomic area is " megalopolis ", or " metropolitan area ".
		Twin cities are often separated by a river â” twin cities without this physical barrier more often become a single entity, as with the growth of London from its cores in the City of London and the City of Westminster to encompass many other towns and villages.
		Near the Iguazu Falls there is a group of three urban communities that now live and grow together: Foz do IguaÃ§u, Brazil, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, and Puerto Iguazu, Argentina.
	www.sewing-center.com /articles/Twin_Cities (543 words)

	Morbid Outlook - Welcome to City Gothic
		Another of Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s many collaborators over the years has been the amazing director Rin Taro who has also created anime in the City Gothic style such as the Doomed Megalopolis series and X.
		City Gothic is a term used in Japan to describe a style of anime set in a futuristic world, which features gothic and cyberpunk overtones.
		Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s work is often filled with sexually explicit scenes and he enjoys using dark religious imagery to exaggerate a point.
	www.morbidoutlook.com /nonfiction/articles/2001_02_anime.html (1282 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Water-based Transportation
		The ferry service is expected to help decongest Manila megalopolis and achieve some of the goals set by President Arroyo early in her second term, according to MMDA.
		Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) chair Emilia Boncodin, Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza and Cesar Lacuna of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for the 15-year span project.
		Bengzon said the Pasig River ferry stations could be operational by the end of the year.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=183530 (2826 words)

	Metropolitan area -
		The term metropolitan area is sometimes abbreviated to 'metro', for example in Metro Manila and Washington, DC Metro Area, and in that case should not be mistaken to mean the metro rail system of the city.
		Africa's first megalopolis is said to be situated in the urban portion of Gauteng Province in South Africa, comprising the conurbation of Johannesburg, and the metropolitan areas of Pretoria and the Vaal Triangle, otherwise known as the PWV.
		A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Metro_area (854 words)

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