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.