Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metropolitan region,

metro area or just metro, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban
core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing: industry,
infrastructure, and housing. A metro area usually comprises multiple
jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, cities, exurbs,
counties, districts, states, and even nations like the eurodistricts. As social,
economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have
become key economic and political regions.Metropolitan areas include one or
more urban areas, as well as satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas
that are socio-economically tied to the urban core, typically measured by
commuting patterns.
For urban centres outside metropolitan areas, that generate a similar
attraction at smaller scale for their region, the concept of the regiopolis and
respectively regiopolitan area or regio was introduced by German professors
in 2006.
nIndia, the Census Commission defines a metropolitan city as, "one having a
population of over 1 million and above".As of 2011 Census India stats, there
are 46 metropolitan cities in India. The top ten metropolitan cities based on
2011 Census population are Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune,
Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Banglore, Surat and Jaipur. Residents of these cities
are also entitled to a higher house rent allowance.

Megalopolis (city type)

A megalopolis (sometimes improperly called a megapolis; also
megaregion, or supercity)is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent
metropolitan areas. The term was used by Patrick Geddes in his 1915 book
Cities in Evolution,by Oswald Spengler in his 1918 book, The Decline of the
West, and Lewis Mumford in his 1938 book, The Culture of Cities, which
described it as the first stage in urban overdevelopment and social decline.
Later, it was used by Jean Gottmann in 1954, to describe the chain of
metropolitan areas along the northeastern seaboard of the U.S. extending
from Boston, Massachusetts through New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
and ending in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia.The latter is sometimes
called the "BosWashmegalopolis"

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Megalopolis is a Western deformation of the Greek word that derived from
Greek: - 'great' and Greek: - 'city', therefore literally a 'great city'.
This term is closer in meaning to megacity. Because in Greek, is
feminine, the correct term is megalopolis.
A megalopolis, also known as a megaregion, is a clustered network of cities.
Gottmann defined its population as 25 million.Doxiadis defined a small
megalopolis a similar cluster with a population of about 10 million. America
2050, a program of the Regional Plan Association, lists 11 megaregions in the
United States and Canada. Literally, megalopolis in Greek means a city of
exaggerated size where the prefix megalo- represents a quantity of
exaggerated size.Megapolitan areas were explored in a July 2005 report by
Robert E. Lang and Dawn Dhavale of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia
Tech. A later 2007 article by Lang and Nelson uses 20 megapolitan areas
grouped into 10 megaregions. The concept is based on the original
Megalopolis model.
Modern interlinked ground transportation corridors, such as rail and highway,
often aid in the development of megalopolises. Using these commuter
passageways to travel throughout the megalopolis is informally called
megaloping. This term was coined by DavideGadren and Stefan Berteau.
Megacity
A megacity is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population
in excess of ten million people. A megacity can be a single metropolitan area
or two or more metropolitan areas that converge. The terms conurbation,
metropolis and metroplex are also applied to the latter.
As of 2015, there are 35 megacities in existence, Chennai being the latest. The
largest of these are the metropolitan areas of Tokyo and Jakarta, each of these
having a population of over 30 million inhabitants. Tokyo is the largest
metropolitan area, while Shanghai is the largest city proper.