Word: megalopolises
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This is the city builder's dream turned nightmare. It is the supercity, the megalopolis, infected by a kind of social cancer that is metastasizing out of control. Its afflictions-a mixture of overcrowding, poverty, pollution and corruption-are a warning to all the other great cities, particularly those...
From nothing but "a cardboard box with $300,000 in debts, no employees, no phones, no plan"?actually locked out of its first office after a credit check?the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee has burgeoned in four years to something greater than phenomenal. The L.A.O.O.C. plan: Don't...
Is the great megalopolis, the marketplace of information, about to be doomed by the new technology? Another futurist, Alvin Toffler, suggests at least a trend in that direction. In his 1980 book, The Third Wave, he portrays a 21st century world in which the computer revolution has canceled out many...
In Brazil bribery is often not just figuratively but literally a matter of seduction. Says a top West German businessman there: "Lavish entertainments with women-that is very effective." In the booming industrial megalopolis of Sao Paulo, a favorite spot to nurse along a deal is La Licorne, a discreetly...
Today--trapped in megalopolis--the hyperactive child is a villain and given damaging medication. Henry Ratliff