London is the megalopolis, and all three writers began with megalopolitan London. From Wordnik.com. [Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses] Reference
The question is: Is this creature in the peasant part of his particular cycle, or in the big-city, megalopolitan era?. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
By 2030, the U.S. "will be dominated by 10 megalopolitan areas ..." says Joel Kotkin, author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. From Wordnik.com. [Julia Moulden: How To Build A Liveable City] Reference
"He's the most erudite parrot in the world," including words like transcendental and megalopolitan, Mr. Elgin boasted in an article published nationally. From Wordnik.com. [Zookeeper Courted Danger to Attract Press and Visitors] Reference
It has directed us into a way of life, or death, in which a person may be born into any one of our proliferating megalopolitan monstrosities and may go through the whole number of his years upon earth without ever once becoming conscious of the beauty of such a simple thing as a tree on the pavement catching the lamplight or as the rain falling. From Wordnik.com. [Why I like 'American Beauty'] Reference
NJ is a commuter-based logistical hub of the East Coast megalopolitan corridor, very metro, as in John Sperling's metro-retro thesis. From Wordnik.com. [race42008.com] Reference
While the book attempts to alert all to the challenges and risks of a future megalopolitan China, it glosses the human rights history of China's development to date as 'the most successful humanitarian project ever to have taken place', and in a non sequitur, advances economic evidence to support this claim (these are very different categories). From Wordnik.com. [Space and Culture] Reference
In the humanity of my heart I sent out heyweywomen to refresh the ballwearied and then, doubling megalopolitan poleetness, my great great greatest of these charities, devaleurised the base fellows for the curtailment of their lower man: with a slog to square leg I sent my boundary to Botany Bay and I ran up a score and four of mes while the Yanks were huckling the Em-pire: I have been reciping om omominous letters and widely — signed petitions full of pieces of pottery about my monumental — ness as a thingabolls and I have been inchanting causeries to the feshest cheoilboys so that they are allcalling on me for the song of a birtch: the more secretely bi built, the more openly palas-tered. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Splashes, pools, ponds, lakes, oceans of light -- farm communities, villages, towns and cities, and, every little while, mile on mile of megalopolitan colossus. From Wordnik.com. [Slan]
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