It was really clean versus Hong Kong; versus this megalopolis.
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Our shiny new megalopolis has spawned the inevitable political backlash.
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In the 2010s, the country went from digital wasteland to megalopolis.
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And the megalopolis contains it all, tenderly, violently, like a dominatrix's dungeon.
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The megalopolis will encompass 26,500 square km, including 468 km of beachfront.
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It was a medieval megalopolis, with a population estimated at up to 60,000.
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Mr. Thornton appreciates the neighborhood's many charms and the rest of this sprawling megalopolis.
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Spawn a living and breathing megalopolis complete with farming towns, bedroom communities, stadiums, airports, and universities.
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The China that Ms. Wang depicts is a megalopolis of gleaming skyscrapers and breakneck economic growth.
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As Mr. Settis notes (citing Italo Calvino), Venice is currently "the polar opposite" of a megalopolis.
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"Chicago is the megalopolis in the Midwest -- emblematic of urban growth and economic success," Lurigio said.
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I'm wearing a pair of loaners as I type, in a bluish neutral I would call Megalopolis Stealth.
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At the heart of the problem is how this megalopolis of more than 20 million people has evolved.
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Here, tech is one sector in a megalopolis, sharing the limelight with finance, media, fashion, advertising and art.
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Cobbling a coalition out of "Lower Alabama," a Midwest-like midsection, a tropical megalopolis and more can be tricky.
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It makes perfect sense that the Islamic State would hate this megalopolis, so progressive and tolerant, emancipated and teeming.
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It's terrifying to think what a real "Big One" would be like, centered in an urban megalopolis like Los Angeles.
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"It's like the rhythm of a megalopolis," said Alla Shishkina after completing the routine at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre.
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Even without hover-sleds and flying cars, the Los Angeles megalopolis is in the midst of a transformation in mobility.
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The Japanese megalopolis has no discernible center, and clusters of skyscrapers miles apart defy the idea of a downtown core.
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Here in Karachi, a throbbing megalopolis of around 20 million people, there is no state ambulance service, despite overwhelming need.
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It's also simply a way to purge the stresses of living in a cramped, polluted megalopolis of 24 million people.
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The Thomas Fire spread through the hills above Ventura, in the northern greater Los Angeles megalopolis, with the speed of a hurricane.
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Last year, the government announced that it is relocating the megalopolis -- a project estimated to cost the equivalent of around $34 billion.
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Tourism is booming in this megalopolis of 22 million people, which this section called the No. 1 Place to Go in 2016.
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It would simply not occur to the 8.6 million citizens of this megalopolis to allow one man to send them into hiding.
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Using this book as a template, photographer Lana Mesić went in search of her own invisible city in the megalopolis of São Paulo.
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The Northeastern megalopolis, stretching from Boston to Washington, contains more than 50 million people and represents 20 percent of America's gross domestic product.
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Five days earlier the couple had moved into a rooftop shack in Samyang-dong, a dilapidated neighbourhood on the northern fringes of the megalopolis.
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The look was Shinjuku and the feel was Mike Davis' City of Quartz, a megalopolis dominated by Haves tricking Have-Nots into shooting each other.
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The plan would cap the city's population at 23 million while expanding Tianjin and other nearby cities, linking them all together to create a megalopolis.
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They are too diplomatic to talk of folding Hong Kong into a border-spanning megalopolis: that would be too open an assault on the territory's autonomy.
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Seoul, the capital of South Korea, a megalopolis of nearly 20 million people, is within artillery range of the Demilitarized Zone that divides the divided nation.
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The Gold Coast, a megalopolis of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, is home to about a third of the state's 4.9 million Democratic voters.
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The government has asked how residents would express their city in symbols, with an open competition for the design of an emoji package representing this megalopolis.
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But their impact is felt most keenly in greater Cairo, where a sprawling megalopolis of about 2700 million inhabitants is spilling into the surrounding desert and farmland.
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It is one of the most densely packed places on the planet and truly earns the tag of a megalopolis, which can be comprehended only from above.
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How did this WASP descendancy meet the rise of the Kennedys, Boston's school-busing wars, the city's emergence as the high-tech educational megalopolis it is today?
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The southern China region, which counts Shenzhen and Guanzhou among its biggest cities, is home to 11 industrial cities that are set to fuse into one megalopolis.
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But this time, the megalopolis emerged largely unscathed, with minor structural damage and only two of its nearly nine million people reporting injuries, neither serious, officials said.
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Pursuits Away from the skyscraper-dominated megalopolis of urban Dubai, an outing aboard a hot-air balloon offers participants a bird's-eye view of a falcon's realm.
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And those cities cannot just be the megalopolis global cities, but have to include the smaller urban cities that are often the core of regions outside the coast.
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The park across the street was one of the verdant oases that made the wealthy La Condesa neighborhood feel completely isolated from the rest of the hustling megalopolis.
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It's the last vestige of the rural fishing village that was Shenzhen 30 years ago, before it became megalopolis of 20 million people packed into high-rise towers.
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There, she painted the 60-foot long, 360-degree Panorama of the Valley of the Smokes, a hypothetical portrayal of a mid-19th-century, pre-megalopolis LA Basin.
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The area, locally called Shimokita, is populated by hip young Tokyoites drawn by the relaxed, small-town atmosphere that makes the neighborhood an anomaly in this bustling megalopolis.
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Film saturates the West Coast megalopolis, so much so that the folks at Dorothy Studio created a map that renames the city's streets, landmarks, and locations after famous films.
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Okay, so they confirm to long-established game clichés—here's a volcanic world, here's a watery one; here's the Star Wars-style megalopolis that's stretched across an entire planet.
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But what unites them even beyond that is that all three tell incredibly skewed versions of true stories of how Los Angeles became the sprawling, congested megalopolis it is.
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In stark contrast to the megalopolis of Tokyo and the sober formality of Kyoto, Yakushima feels like an undiscovered rural paradise, offering a glimpse of a wilder, primeval Japan.
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HOUSTON, A DRIVE-THRU megalopolis of nearly 22015m people, is sometimes sneered at by residents of other big cities for being flat (true), hot (also true) and ugly (somewhat true).
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The one-year-old school is located not in Central Kolkata, famous for its colonial architecture, but in Newtown -- the smart city recently built just outside of the historic megalopolis.
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A thick haze periodically descends on Mexico City, the Western Hemisphere's largest megalopolis, irritating eyes and throats and prompting authorities to issue health warnings and force cars off the streets.
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The city's Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis came under pressure to act after visibility in the city began dropping sharply last week because of ash and smoke in the air.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday the complex administrative structure of the Paris megalopolis must be "drastically simplified" to enable it to compete with other world cities.
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Now the Mexico City government has asked how residents would express their city in symbols, with an open competition for the design of a new emoji package representing this megalopolis.
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Both African Americans and Trump supporters are generally located in an arc that starts in eastern Texas, sweeps east toward the Atlantic Ocean, and then up through the Washington-Boston megalopolis.
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The ruins of an enormous Maya 'megalopolis' have been discovered in Guatemala with the help of the remote sensing technique LiDAR, according to a bombshell exclusive from National Geographic on Thursday.
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Mexico City, a megalopolis whose urban sprawl comprises more than 20 million people, has been at the vanguard of a shift in Mexico to more socially liberal laws in recent years.
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The festival is particularly popular in Mumbai, the megalopolis of 277 million that is India's industrial and film capital, where it got started in the 264th century as an anticolonial protest.
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The building gives you a sense of what Los Angeles wanted to be, and what it has become, part of a huge megalopolis that still shows no signs of slowing down.
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Mr. Sanders has struggled in places with high median incomes, even when those areas have a liberal reputation — like Boston or Northern Virginia, which anchor both ends of the Northeast megalopolis.
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In Japan's Tokaido megalopolis, with its population of about 38 million people, the large network of commuter and longer haul passenger trains in Japan have become the envy of the world.
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The units that will be sold are Meliti I and the yet-to-be-built Meliti II in northern Greece along with another two units in the southern Greek town of Megalopolis.
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As sea levels creep higher, the coastal megalopolis continues to pump too much water from its underlying aquifers, causing the land to collapse by almost a foot a year in some places.
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The original manga takes place in what's described as a "strange corporate conglomerate-state called 'Japan,'" while this movie unwinds nowhere in particular, just a universal megalopolis filled with soaring gray towers.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MEXICO CITY — International art collectors, guzzling mescal and flexing gaudy taste, are descending on this megalopolis, and will leave on Monday with a hangover and something shiny.
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And another is the creation of a Greater Bay area combining nine cities in the Pearl River Delta, along with Hong Kong and Macau, into one megalopolis of more than 60 million people.
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While Tacoma stayed pretty much the same, she saw Doha transformed into a megalopolis with large planned communities and The Pearl, an artificial island with an extensive canal system and numerous residential towers.
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But the more recent one was much closer to the country's megalopolis, Mexico City, part of which is built on the soft soil of a lake bed and is thus prone to seismic shaking.
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How aerial lidar illuminated a Mayan megalopolis There are some programs and services out there that do virtual site visits, but many just estimate your roof area and orientation by looking at satellite imagery.
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Construction is almost complete in San Francisco for the transient mini-megalopolis known as Super Bowl City, the social-engineering arm of this year's NFL championship game, which is scheduled to open on Saturday.
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The mostly liberal Northeast has the highest percentage of college graduates — you're more likely to be expected to go to college — and the populous Northeast megalopolis, for example, draws college graduates searching for jobs.
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In 2017, when a destructive earthquake struck Puebla, Mexico, sending shock waves to Mexico City and destroying buildings in the nation's megalopolis and its surrounding suburbs, both public and private emergency services sprung into action.
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Brazil's megalopolis has 2.6 square metres (28 square feet) of green space for each of its 1073m inhabitants, a tenth as much as New York and a fifth of what the World Health Organisation recommends.
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Even amid calls by Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, for building a wall at that border, the art scene in the San Diego-Tijuana megalopolis has assumed a consciously and exuberantly binational ethos.
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When he grew up, he took over the noodle shop and ran it for two decades with his wife, Yu Lan Hsu, while they watched the transformation of their country from rural society to megalopolis.
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HONG KONG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Entrepreneur Tony Verb is on a mission to promote technology that can help make cities greener and smarter in China's Greater Bay Area, now being shaped as a low-carbon megalopolis.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The former Communist Party boss of one of China's most important cities, the southwestern megalopolis of Chongqing, is under investigation for "suspected serious violations of discipline", the party's anti-corruption watchdog said on Monday.
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In the South, including my home state of South Carolina, is rapidly urbanizing, with a 22019 study predicting that a completely connected megalopolis stretching from Raleigh to Atlanta will likely exist within the next 50 years.
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With its sullenly angelic Chief Keef/Justin Vernon duet and that superlaser of a Mike Dean guitar solo, "Hold My Liquor" is a lighter-waver, "Comfortably Numb" for the brain-addled denizens of some future megalopolis.
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In an urban megalopolis that is 60% Latino, our team, MOCA, traded both the leading American Latina curator of contemporary art and the greatest curator since Walter Hopps (Paul Schimmel) and what did we get in return?
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It's the same concept, that this is one that's moving in, and especially in urban areas where I think 90 percent of the population's going to be in a megalopolis over the next 25 years, like 210 percent.
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Lana Mesić searches for an invisible city in the megalopolis of São Paulo, drawing inspiration from Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino's novel that imagines the explorer Marco Polo describing the fantastical realms he visited to the emperor Kublai Khan.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The southwestern Chinese megalopolis of Chongqing will purge the "vile influence" of its former top official Sun Zhengcai after he was expelled from the Communist Party for corruption, the city government said, praising the move as "brilliant".
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The economic experiment had a remarkable impact: in just under 40 years, the city grew from a sleepy outpost to a booming megalopolis, with a population of about 15 million and the fourth largest GDP in all of China.
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After waiting for more than a year, he got a shot of P-22, bathed in light, in front of the Hollywood Sign: a magnificent holdover from the Ice Age posed with the unmistakable emblem of the American megalopolis.
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But Le Corre is less optimistic about Hong Kong's long term prospects, saying the city's power as a financial hub was "diluted" when China included it in a plan to create a megalopolis with eight other Chinese cities and Macau.
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Given that the newly announced Maya "megalopolis" is the result of the first phase of PACUNAM's LiDAR Initiative, which began in 2014, there are likely to be many more revelations about the mysterious people who built this massive urban network.
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The only majority he's gotten so far came from New York — not Alabama or Mississippi — and the very Trumpiest country in the country so far is Staten Island, an affluent, leafy, fundamentally prosperous and suburban section of the northeastern megalopolis.
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Last weekend, another high-flyer from the same generation, Sun Zhengcai, 53, was stripped of his position as party chief of the megalopolis of Chongqing and, according to two sources with ties to the leadership, has been put under investigation.
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The megalopolis of the Greater Bay Area is made up of nine mainland cities, including Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, a former Portuguese-run enclave that returned to China in 1999.
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That Fordham even has a sailing program comes as a shock to most people Norfleet meets: A university embedded in the country's densest megalopolis does not immediately call to mind the open-water challenges and freewheeling spirit of the America's Cup.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - With routines revolving around mermaids and gypsies or played out to the backdrop of a megalopolis, Russia's synchronized swimmers flawlessly soared out of the water to win even more gold for the sporting powerhouse at the Olympics.
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There too, development is occurring at a breakneck pace, not just for the Olympics but as part of a greater plan for "Jing-Jin-Ji," an integrated megalopolis that would include Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei — and about 130 million people.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City's infamous traffic jams were back on Monday as offices re-opened after last week's deadly earthquake, but closed schools and clusters of homeless people served as reminders that life in the megalopolis has not yet returned to normal.
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In March 2016 it signed a memorandum of understanding with a Russian firm, Rosseti, a Japanese one, SoftBank, and a Korean one, KEPCO, agreeing to the long-term development of an Asian supergrid designed to move electricity from windswept Siberia to the megalopolis of Seoul.
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Nearly four times the size of Disneyland at 310 acres (125 hectares), the military site is one of the last big swaths of developable land in central Mexico City, a megalopolis with more than 13 million people where land values in coveted neighborhoods have soared.
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Though the launch will be primarily centered around Los Angeles and Dallas, Galiardo underlined that the company is looking to expand the presence of its air taxis to the rest of the world, especially in "megalopolis" cities where "it's hell to get to work".
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Nearly four times the size of Disneyland at 503 acres (125 hectares), the military site is one of the last big swaths of developable land in central Mexico City, a megalopolis with more than 20 million people where land values in coveted neighborhoods have soared.
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The train might ultimately carry passengers from megalopolis of Los Angeles to the metro area that includes both Silicon Valley and San Francisco, but for now, Newsom said, they're just going to focus on the line from Bakersfield (population: 21900,000) to Merced (population: 83,000).
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But at least once a week, she is stuck waiting outside her cinderblock home for a water truck to chug its slow way to her doorstep, one of tens of thousands of people living on the edges of Mexico's urban megalopolis who have no running water.
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"We need to go further, be braver and particularly be more determined to make sure that from now on, and over the next years, we avoid having a contaminated atmosphere that puts at risk the health of the people who live in this great megalopolis," he added.
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At dusk, when the day's dust settles, you realize this was once a sleepy port town -- one that 70 years ago exploded into a megalopolis when refugees from all across the Indian subcontinent arrived almost overnight, following the partition of the South Asian subcontinent into India and Pakistan.
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First, what seems to be an industrial park goes up on the lot, and in Lowery's idiosyncratic telescoping of time, the high-rises get higher until this corner of what seems like Kentucky has become a megalopolis that looks a little like Shanghai and a little like Las Vegas.
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The density of the connecting structures occupying the upper right side of the drawing made me think I was looking at a section of what writer William Gibson called the Sprawl, his colloquial name for a megalopolis that takes up the entire Northeast coast from Atlanta to Boston.
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The liberal and pro-European politics of early A.K.P. years, and an infusion of new money from the West, gave us a sense of Istanbul transforming into a cosmopolitan megalopolis, where we thought the days of shooting writers and journalists in the streets or throwing them into prisons were over.
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Part of the larger Shenzhen and Pearl River Delta megalopolis (one of the world's most-populous areas), our stop at the port of Chiwan (to offload and take on containers, of course) allowed for some time to go ashore and explore the busy streets and try some authentic Chinese cuisine.
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It's precisely because housing pain reaches so far up the economic ladder in coastal California (along with the Seattle and Denver metro areas and much of the Boston/New York/Washington megalopolis) that Harris and Booker like the idea of ensuring that even non-poor people facing rent burdens can get help.
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"You have this massive agglomeration of everything that is important in South Korea — government, business and the huge population — and all of it is in this gigantic megalopolis that starts 30 miles from the border and ends 70 miles from the border," said Robert E. Kelly, a professor of political science at Pusan National University in South Korea.
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Three years before Pop Sci's cover story, the Department of Commerce had asked CAL to come up with transportation ideas for the future "Megalopolis" between Boston and Washington, DC. It's not clear whether the resulting Urbmobile concept — a "small, multipurpose electric-powered car" that could drive on both city streets and a guideway — was inspired by Alden, but it's a plausible conclusion.
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Since then, the fenced-in wilderness, a part of the Arabian Desert, has served as a protected habitat for a variety of indigenous mammals — hedgehogs, shrews, gazelles, Arabian hares and at least three species of bats — and a getaway spot for tourists and locals overwhelmed by the skyscraper-dominated megalopolis of Dubai, the most populous of seven city-states that comprise the United Arab Emirates.
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Sun Zhengcai had been party chief of the southwestern megalopolis of Chongqing, until an abrupt announcement on Saturday morning that he no longer had the position and had been replaced by a rising political star close to President Xi. The announcement, carried by state news agency Xinhua, did not say Sun either had a new position or use wording to suggest he was waiting for a further appointment.
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There were a great many things both sides agreed upon: Peter Debruge, Variety: Besson [expands] upon the multiculturalism of the "Star Wars" series in a big way, taking the intermingling of species in the classic cantina scene and expanding it to a vast city named Alpha, where a seemingly infinite number of aliens coexist in harmony ... No doubt, there are dark and sordid "Blade Runner"-esque corners to this hyper-modern megalopolis, but Besson never lingers long enough for us to play more than fly-by tourist.
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