Word: megalopolises
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For all his slashing and burning, Willes pays homage to the lofty ideals of journalism in a sprawling megalopolis. "This is a very splintered place to live, a remarkably diverse place with nothing in common. We'd like to be that thing in common, building bridges of understanding," he says...
Readers of Rushdie's earlier novels will recognize the Moor's unusual affliction as a typical ambushing of the real by the preposterous. In his speeded-up growth, which makes him bigger than everyone else his age--"I was a skyscraper freed of all legal restraints, a one-man population...
An outbreak of pneumonic plague in western India has killed 100 people and has sent 300,000 others fleeing from the city where it originated. The country's entire medical-care apparatus has been put on red alert at the flare-up of the contagious, deadly disease to prevent its...
For about six weeks last year, the world became one giant megalopolis for photographer Anthony Suau. Assigned to shoot the pictures for this week's cover story on the many problems and opportunities to be found in megacities around the globe, Suau began in Kinshasa, Zaire, and wound up in...
Marshall McLuhan's famous metaphor sees the world as a global village. Actually, it has become a global city, a megalopolis with some rich neighborhoods and many poor neighborhoods and some that are terribly dangerous. Unfortunately, the big city has no police department, and the neighborhoods (the former U.S.S.R., the...