Word: megalopolitans
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Transportation experts have a mouthful of a phrase to describe the area between Washington and Boston. It is the "Northeastern Megalopolitan Corridor," and it implies just what "megalo" means in medicine: an abnormal enlargement. Not too many years hence, the metropolitan centers of Washington. Baltimore. Philadelphia. New York and Boston will have crept so near each other that they will be one huge, headachy city. These urban areas already comprise better than 20% of the nation's population, account for almost 30% of U.S. manufacturing, 20% of its retail trade and 27% of the federal income tax take...
When that great mega-megalopolitan day comes, will those cities and their transported citizens be ready for it? Obviously, the answer is no-unless they prepare for it now. A few of the states are spending millions just to survey future needs, but the effort will not help much unless it is coordinated...
Strip Cities. The immensity of the big cities of the U.S. holds a looming clue to their future. Experts predict that within 20 years most of the great cities will join together in massive megalopolitan complexes. Airline pilots first noted the trend, from the outstretching lights of the cities, a dozen years ago. Before long, the nation may be engulfed in great strip cities: a 600-mile giant stretching unbroken from Boston to Washington; another lining the Florida Coast, from Jacksonville to the Keys; a San Diego-San Francisco strip on the West Coast, and a Milwaukee-Chicago-Gary...
...plop on 462,257 doorsteps from Anaheim to Azusa,* like a faintly welcome striped-pants uncle (wealthy but voluble). Neither a great newspaper nor a poor one, the Times, from its downtown limestone monolith, serves as an unshakable herald, chronicling the region with loving detail, goading Angelenos toward the megalopolitan destiny ordained by Harrison Otis...
...with such figures as Pound, Morize, or Copeland. During spare minutes he likes to scan his stock of magazines. Indeed, only an overriding sense of nationality, ranks in his makeup with this semiliterate but deadly earnest intellectual streak. A leader in Hellenic causes, he has helped to form the Megalopolitan Club of the United States to raise money for the construction of modern schools at his impoverished birthplace. In Boston the Greek Orthodox Cathedral benefits from his generosity. Over a battered desk hangs perhaps his proudest possession, an autographed portrait of Eleutherios Venizelos, until his death in 1935 the towering...