Which is why we'll go further, starting with the deep-pocketed elite universities clustered around our bloated megalopolises.
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Barely 50 kilometres from North Korea, 25m South Koreans live in greater Seoul, one of Asia's most dynamic megalopolises.
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But now the entire West Coast, from San Diego to Vancouver, British Columbia, is a string of gilded megalopolises.
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The news is the latest step in Uber's plans to get demonstration flights off the ground in the megalopolises of Dallas-Ft.
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For speculators looking at property, the excess supply in smaller cities was all too evident, so they turned instead to the megalopolises.
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Beyond megalopolises such as Shanghai, speciality beers are selling well, even though microbrews can cost ten times as much as locally brewed lager.
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Is there something good that can come from technological process, of human progress, despite the megalopolises we build, the disposable products we create, and their side effects?
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But Amazon is reportedly completing plans for sites in New York City and the Washington area, megalopolises with multiple airports, extensive if strained public transit systems and elite universities.
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Like many Asian megalopolises, which crowd the catalog of the world's most polluted cities, Bangkok suffers from a toxic amalgam: unchecked industrialization and urbanization, a car-crazy populace and lax regulation.
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At a time when cities become ever-larger megalopolises, it seems sentimental to insist on the primacy of neighborhoods and communities as units, and yet some evidence suggests that that is where this big change began.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Authorities declared an environmental emergency on Tuesday for metropolitan Mexico City, one of the world's most populous megalopolises, as smoke from nearby wildfires pushed pollution to levels deemed potentially harmful to human health.
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Citing former Chinese president Hu Jintao's introduction of healthcare and education to rural areas, Donaldson said such initiatives give citizens the option of remaining in rural areas — rather than shifting to megalopolises in search of a better life.
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He views them as the hallmark of the Earth's many rapidly expanding cities, or megalopolises, and for the most part, he doesn't see these buildings as doing much good for anyone other than their developers and starchitects; seldom are they expressions of a city's soul.
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Restaurants in even the biggest of megalopolises often tout their relationships with tiny idyllic farms, proudly telling you how they work directly with a farmer to bring you fresh fruit and vegetables from Eden—while outside the restaurant's front door rats and pigeons preside over a kingdom of decay.
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It turns up its Roman nose at the modernists' hope for authentic, local materials expressing their fundamental essence; at the Prairie School's pragmatic, ecologically aware eaves; at the prefab ornamentation of Arts and Crafts; at Hugh Ferris megalopolises and Broadway boogie-woogie modernism … the hell with all that American stuff.
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This has been true since at least the dawn of the cyberpunk era, when writers like William Gibson extrapolated gritty future megalopolises that reflected Japan's booming '80s, and movies like Blade Runner rendered those imagined cities in unforgettably vivid dystopian noir detail that draws inspiration from real cities like Tokyo and Shanghai.
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From its earliest iterations in fire-starting and cave-dwelling to its current zenith in the construction of megalopolises, as well as the careful documentation of every birth and the methodical laying bare of each strand in every helix, civilization is a way of setting ourselves apart from the prey we once were.
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Megalopolises have formed between both nations in the case of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes Megaregion.
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Jing-Jin-Ji, Greater Shanghai (incl. Suzhou), Greater Xi'an, Greater Zhengzhou, Greater Guangzhou, Hefei economic circle (incl. Lu'an, Huainan, Chaohu), Shandong Peninsula, Greater Shenyang, Shenzhen and Wuhan. Up to 2018, there are nine officially approved megalopolises in China.
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In 1965, futurist Herman Kahn speculated about the three megalopolises in the year 2000. In the 1960s and 1970s, urban planner and architect Constantinos Doxiadis wrote books, studies, and reports about the growth potential of the Great Lakes Megalopolis.Cities: Capital for the New Megalopolis.Time magazine, November 4, 1966.
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The concept is based on the original Megalopolis model. Modern interlinked ground transportation corridors, such as rail and highway, often aid in the development of megalopolises. Using these commuter passageways to travel throughout the megalopolis is informally called megaloping. This term was coined by Davide Gadren and Stefan Berteau.
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Citizens have serial numbers. The people live in twenty enormous circular cities, which have radii of a hundred miles; there are triple-decker highways and monorails. The capital, "Bardo-Cito-Uno" (which was Boston), has fully a quadrillion inhabitants. The countryside beyond these megalopolises is kept verdant and park-like.
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Arte-al-Dia International. Issue #145. "...works that bordered on abstraction, and whose titles, which were often bilingual, alluded in a parallel way to another multitudinous movement: that of the human masses coming from the south to insert themselves in the megalopolises of the north." Ofill Echevarria's style and technique draws from the tradition of photography, documentary film and painting.
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In 1930, the núcleo (small colony) of Barão de Antonina, was established in Itaporanga, São Paulo. The center of Lithuanian life in Brazil is Vila Zelina, a district in one of the biggest megalopolises of the world – the city of São Paulo. Everything seems to revolve around the Saint Joseph Catholic Church (São José). One can still taste some of the culinary of the Old World in this part of town.
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The story begins in contemporary Tokyo, with a voice over narrative concerning the state of the expanding city.Narrator: Tokyo...continuously expanding as one of the biggest megalopolises in the world. It hates darkness and seeks out light. The city which keeps working for 24 hours without any rest, Tokyo...(Doomed Megalopolis) Toei Animation Studio, Translated by ADV, 2003 The narrator tells the tale of how Taira no Masakado went against the Emperor and was executed for his crimes.
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The Russia Pavilion was the first exhibition Russia constructed at an expo in 30 years. It was one of the pavilions visited by President Hu Jintao when at the Expo. The pavilion towers symbolized rapidly growing megalopolises with skyscrapers of a nonlinear architecture. The white-gold color of the towers resembled historical images of Russian architecture while the perforation of the upper tower parts was created based upon ethnic ornaments of the peoples who populate Russia.
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1907 Canadian major internal and cross border shipping routes Map of the emerging American-Canadian megaregions as defined by America 2050. This interpretation excludes the eastern part of the Windsor-Quebec City urban corridor from the Great Lakes Megalopolis. The region was partially outlined as an emergent megalopolis in the 1961 book Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States by French geographer Jean Gottmann. Gottmann envisaged the development of other megalopolises in the U.S.: from Boston to Washington, D.C., from Chicago to Pittsburgh, and from San Francisco to San Diego.
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California's major urban areas normally are thought of as two large megalopolises: one in Northern California and one in Southern California, separated from each other by approximately 382 miles or 615 km (the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco), with sparsely inhabited (relatively) Central Coast, Central Valley, and Transverse Ranges in between. Other ideas conceive of a single megalopolis encompassing both North and South, or a division of Coastal California vs. Inland California. These regional concepts are usually based on geographic, cultural, political, and environmental differences, rather than transportation and infrastructure connectivity and boundaries.
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Xi'an currently holds sub-provincial status, administering 11 districts and 2 counties. Xi'an has a population of 12,005,600 and the Xi'an–Xianyang metropolitan area a population of 12.6 million. It is the most populous city in Northwest China, as well as the third most populous city in Western China, the other two being Chongqing and Chengdu. In 2019, it was named as one of the 7 main emerging megacities, or megalopolises, in China and designated as a metropolis that also consists of areas surrounding the city itself . According to GaWC 2020, Xi’an is ranked Beta-, an increase from Gamma+ last year.
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In some cases metropolitan areas have multiple centers of close to equal importance, such as Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area (Dallas and Fort Worth), Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area (Islamabad and Rawalpindi), the Rhine- Ruhr in Germany and the Randstad in the Netherlands. In the United States, the concept of the metropolitan statistical area has gained prominence. Metropolitan areas may themselves be part of larger megalopolises. For urban centres outside metropolitan areas, that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the concept of the regiopolis and respectively regiopolitan area or regio was introduced by German professors in 2006.Prof.
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In China, a City Cluster () is an officially defined type of megalopolis,In China, the official term corresponding to the meaning of "megalopolis" is (chéngshì qún), which literally means "city cluster". In Standard for basic terminology of urban planning (GB/T 50280—98) issued in 1998, is defined as "An area in which cities are relatively densely distributed in a certain region", but the term is mistranslated as "agglomeration". whereby government policy is to knit the area together more tightly and promote development through transportation and communication links. The Economist Intelligence Unit in 2012 identified 13 megalopolises: Chang-Zhu-Tan (Greater Changsha), Chengdu, Chongqing, Greater Beijing i.e.
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The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture™ was founded in 2006 by architect and professor Jana Revedin. The Global Award Community, which consists of the 65 contemporary architects or architects collectives from around the globe who have received the award, works towards a sustainable architectural ethic and fosters research, experimentation, and transmission in the fields of sustainable architecture, urban renewal, and academic social responsibility. It defines architecture as an agent of empowerment, self- development, and civic rights. Each year, the award honours five architects who share a belief in more sustainable development and who have pioneered innovative and holistic approaches in their own communities, in western and emerging countries, in developed cities and precarious districts, in megalopolises, and in the countryside.
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In 2008, when the plans for implementing high-speed trains connecting the country's megalopolises was announced, the government of Brazil included by Provisional Measure - the rail link for passengers between the cities of Belo Horizonte and Curitiba - in the National Transportation Plan. The plan lists the investments that may be made by the government in the transportation sector. After completion of the auction of the Rio-São Paulo route, the Brazilian government will begin studying the connection of the capital of Minas Gerais, and the capital of Paraná. This railway line would connect - in the State of Minas Gerais the cities of; Belo Horizonte, Divinópolis, Varginha and Poços de Caldas, in the State of São Paulo; Campinas, São Paulo, Sorocaba, Itapetininga and Apiaí, and, in the State of Paraná; Curitiba.
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"Ten oil paintings suffice to distill the dimensions of this topic, as much as in its subjects as in the urban landscape that distinguishes them. There is an apparent redundancy on the surface of these large-format pieces: men clad in suits of like colors, carrying similar suitcases; faces and bodies of imprecise contours inhabiting a public space almost as diffuse as they are." as well as in 'City Escapes' (2004) this iconography of stress becomes sharper, with pictures as 'Soñar Is Forbidden'Carol Damian: The City In Action And Reaction. ArtNexus. Issue #55. "One of his most recent works features an exhausted businessman, collapsed on a bed, briefcase still in hand. His body is dramatically foreshortened, undoubtedly in homage to Andrea Mantegna’s Dead Christ (1466)." or 'Ritual de Identidad / The Lost Identity'; "works that bordered on abstraction, and whose titles, often bilingual, alluded in a parallel way to another multitudinous movement: that of the human masses coming from the south to insert themselves in the megalopolises of the north".
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