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Explain the concepts of “megalopolis” and “exopolis” with regard to the growth of cities indicating whether the two can and do overlap.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Population and Settlement Geography

Megalopolis, coined by Jean Gottmann (1961) for the urbanised north-eastern seaboard of the USA, is a concept of scale: the coalescence of several metropolitan areas into one polynuclear super-region strung along a transport axis.

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  • Gottmann's Megalopolis: Coalescence Along a Transport Axis
  • Soja's Exopolis: The City Turned Inside Out
  • Scale Versus Structure: Why the Two Are Not Rivals
  • Why They Can Overlap: Exopolitan Growth Is the Filling Mechanism
  • That They Do Overlap: The Empirical Record
  • Western evidence
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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