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This term was coined by Davide Gadren and Stefan Berteau. Using these commuter passageways to travel throughout the megalopolis is informally called megaloping. Modern interlinked ground transportation corridors, such as rail and highway, often aid in the development of megalopolises.

The concept is based on the original Megalopolis model. A later 2007 article by Lang and Nelson uses 20 megapolitan areas grouped into 10 megaregions.

Lang and Dawn Dhavale of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. Megaregions of the United States were explored in a July 2005 report by Robert E. America 2050, a program of the Regional Plan Association, lists 11 megaregions in the United States and Canada. Doxiadis defined a small megalopolis a similar cluster with a population of about 10 million. Gottmann defined its population as 25 million. Northeast megalopolis ( United States) (top) and Taiheiyō Belt ( Japan) (bottom).Ī megalopolis, also known as a megaregion, is a clustered network of cities. The Ancient Greek city of Megalopolis was formed by the Arcadian League by bringing together smaller communities. Literally, megalopolis in Greek means a city of exaggerated size where the prefix megalo- represents a quantity of exaggerated size. Both are derived from μέγας ( mégas) in Ancient Greek meaning 'great' and πόλις ( pólis) meaning 'city', therefore literally a 'great city' (compare ' megacity').

The contemporary 1994 map cites the term Megalopolis being first used in 1961 to refer to the BosWash region. In 1994 the magazine National Geographic (Vol 186, No.1 July 1994) featured a 'Double Map Supplement: Megalopolis' of Boston to Washington Circa 1830 and on the flip-side a contemporary (1994) map of the same region to coincide with the 33 page feature article 'Breaking New Ground: Boston' by William S. The term has been interpreted as meaning 'supercity'.

Later, it was used by Jean Gottmann in his landmark 1961 study, Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States, to describe what is now commonly known as the Northeast megalopolis a.k.a. The term was coined by Patrick Geddes in his 1915 book Cities in Evolution, and used by Oswald Spengler in his 1918 book The Decline of the West, and Lewis Mumford in his 1938 book The Culture of Cities, which described it as the first stage in urban overdevelopment and social decline.

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