megalopoli

megalopoli

1. plural of megalopolis
   • 1967, William Rudolph Ewald, Environment for Man: The Next Fifty Years, Indiana, page 140:

     All the megalopoli of the future—in this country and elsewhere—will transcend national boundaries in many ways.

   • 1972, David Harvey, Society, the City, and the Space-economy of Urbanism (Association of American Geographers 1972, p. 14)

     This problem has been made more serious in the contemporary city by the emergence of a new form of spatial ordering in the form of sprawling megalopoli.

   • 1976, Robert Theobald, Beyond Despair (Michigan 1976, p. 153)

     With these developments came urbanization and centralization, which trends have culminated in the mega-farms and megalopoli of the present.

   • 1997, Stephen Metz, Strategic Horizons, Diane Publishing, page 9:

     The population of megalopoli like Mexico City and Sao Paulo will be well over 20 million by the end of the 20th century.

   • 1998, John M. Collins, Military Geography, Diane Publishing, page 199:

     Table 20. Present and Projected Megalopoli (more than 10 million inhabitants […]

Derived from English megalopolis, with -s dropped on analogy with metropoli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɡɑloˌpoli/, [ˈme̞ɡɑ̝lo̞ˌpo̞li]
• Rhymes: -oli
• Syllabification^(key): me‧ga‧lo‧po‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): me‧galo‧poli

megalopoli

1. megalopolis

• “megalopoli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023