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James Cheshire

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the era of the megalopolis what does the future mean for the nature of the city

The Era of the Megalopolis: What Does the Future Mean for the Nature of the 'City'

The question of where to draw the line between what is and what is not a city is getting harder to answer. As the world moves towards total urbanisation, settlements are spreading out by merging into one another to create what urban experts term “megalopolises”.