megalopolitan

These criteria unfortunately exclude mega-cities like New York, Mexico City, Tokyo or Sao Paulo, which suffer from congenital congestion, out-of-control real estate prices and expanding income disparities--symptoms of what urban historian Lewis Mumford described as "megalopolitan elephantiasis."

The World's Smartest Cities 2009

By 2030, the U.S. "will be dominated by 10 megalopolitan areas ..." says Joel Kotkin, author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050.

Julia Moulden: How To Build A Liveable City 2010

"He's the most erudite parrot in the world," including words like transcendental and megalopolitan, Mr. Elgin boasted in an article published nationally.

Zookeeper Courted Danger to Attract Press and Visitors 2010

Humans are still slowly moving to California City, as all of Los Angeles County to the south becomes urbanized and people grow tired of megalopolitan life.

I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

Humans are still slowly moving to California City, as all of Los Angeles County to the south becomes urbanized and people grow tired of megalopolitan life.

I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

It has directed us into a way of life, or death, in which a person may be born into any one of our proliferating megalopolitan monstrosities and may go through the whole number of his years upon earth without ever once becoming conscious of the beauty of such a simple thing as a tree on the pavement catching the lamplight or as the rain falling.

Why I like 'American Beauty' Sam Norton 2005

It has directed us into a way of life, or death, in which a person may be born into any one of our proliferating megalopolitan monstrosities and may go through the whole number of his years upon earth without ever once becoming conscious of the beauty of such a simple thing as a tree on the pavement catching the lamplight or as the rain falling.

Archive 2005-07-01 Sam Norton 2005

London is the megalopolis, and all three writers began with megalopolitan London.

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

The London megalopolitan Satire remains to be written.

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

Now he saw the planet's curve through a broad viewport, the ocean gleaming westward, the megalopolitan maze giving way to fields and isolated castles.

Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966