#WOTD -- Conurbation
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
See: Golden Horseshoe
ReplyDeleteMost of us live in one. Vancouver is part of a continuous urban mass comprising also Burnaby, Surrey, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Richmond, Ladner, and Delta.
ReplyDeleteI'm more familiar with William Gibson's "The Sprawl," which is the massive conurbation linking Boston through NYC, Philly, DC, and down through Atlanta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sprawl
ReplyDeleteToronto was also one...then the city of Toronto swallowed up the suburbs, leading to Mayor Doug Ford. (Voters farther out from the downtown core tend to skew more conservative.) That should be enough of an object lesson for Metro Vancouver to never consider amalgamation.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamation_of_Toronto#1998_amalgamation
I live in a consilvation. This is a neologism that I just made up. It means an inhabited area that is merged with surrounding forests.
ReplyDeleteBtw, this is what is referred to as "The Sticks" as opposed to "The Sprawl".
ReplyDeleteSometimes, when I'm alone, I conurbate.
ReplyDeleteI could be wrong, but wasn't that once referred to as a megalopolis?
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ReplyDeleteA conurbation should also be contrasted with a megalopolis, where the urban areas are close but not physically contiguous and where the merging of labour markets has not yet developed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conurbation
Does this assume a suburb is an unincorporated area?
ReplyDeleteIn World War Z, they call it "in-fill".
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