What's the difference between megalopolis and supercity?

Megalopolis


Definition:

  • (n.) A chief city; a metropolis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead I look back from here, across the megalopolis I barely crossed, with all that I found charming – and remind myself that since 1531 a great number of people do this walk on their knees.
  • (2) This carpet of miniature rooftops is hopelessly incapable of keeping up with the city’s relentless pace of change, the exhibition hall too small to ever contain a megalopolis so sprawling that it is currently building its seventh ring road , an orbital loop that will run for almost 1,000km in circumference.
  • (3) Inside the Huaqiangbei electronics markets of Shenzhen , every booth on all 10 floors represents a factory somewhere in southern China’s Pearl River Delta megalopolis.
  • (4) But its history, coupled with the pleasing sound of its three syllables, have made it a megalopolis in the human imagination ever since Emperor Moussa I built Djinguereber after returning from Mecca in 1327.
  • (5) I only ask because LA, the city I live in and love beyond all reason, is, by some considerable measure, the world-class megalopolis most often destroyed, nuked, alien-invaded, bombed-flat, depopulated, dystopianised or demonised in the movies.
  • (6) Creation of “urban corridors” could create novel habitats that allow totally different groups of species to flourish; one giant megalopolis will exist, unbroken, all the way from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, 400 miles distant.
  • (7) The southern megalopolis: Using the past to predict the future of urban sprawl in the Southeast US, PLoS One, 9 (7) e102261.
  • (8) The sacking consolidates the Kremlin's grip over the third most important post in the country but also presents a new headache: how to administer a megalopolis of 10 million at a time of growing civic uprisings and as Medvedev's own regime loses its appeal.
  • (9) 'From the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe I look back across the megalopolis at all that I found charming.'
  • (10) Often I lie here with my back on concrete that emanates heat from a day in the sun, staring up at the city lights and dreaming of the paradise that this ever-growing megalopolis will one day become … if only.
  • (11) If China's cities carry on growing at the current rate, Shanghai, whose population has doubled in 20 years, will at some stage merge with Nanjing, Ningbo, Hangzhou and others to form a megalopolis of 88 million people.
  • (12) Ask a cyclist what it’s like to ride in Indonesia’s capital – a sprawling megalopolis of 10.2 million people – and, if they’re generous, they’ll say it’s challenging or possible.

Supercity


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The recent appearance, in the market of the supercements, suggest to us, news concepts of retention-adhesion, of our preparations, that they are going to put in to the mouth.

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