Word: megalopolises
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Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves...
Quick! Name a city in Argentina. Almost certainly, the first response would be Buenos Aires, the country's cultural, business and tourist hub, and for 105 years its capital. Last week President Raul Alfonsin proposed moving the seat of government to Patagonia, a wind-blasted region 475 miles to the...
Metropolitan Los Angeles has been characterized as the world's largest parking lot, with 4.7 million vehicles making 25 million trips daily among 84 cities. Officials of the region took a promising step last week, however, toward giving all that chrome some competition. Mayor Tom Bradley officiated at a groundbreaking...
Battered and dazed, Mexico City began the long struggle back from chaos last week. In the center of the world's biggest megalopolis, where the country's worst earthquake in decades had wreaked its most severe devastation, the stench of death hung over piles of rubble. Squads of masked and...
Technology, according to the dreams of urban planners, is supposed to solve such problems, but in a swollen megalopolis like Mexico City, solutions keep lagging behind the growing needs. Consider, for example, the question of how to get increasing millions of people to their jobs. Seventeen years ago, the government...