Megalopoli

For different reasons, they stand out in their neighborhoods, so much so that it is as easy today to look at them and instantly think "library" as it was when Andrew Carnegie was building his compact palaces of knowledge in dusty cow towns and aspiring megalopoli alike. ❋ Philip Kennicott (2011)

Sometimes, I think Earth put all the colonial embassies next to the main emigration spaceport just to hinder the attempts of qualified candidates to leave its sterile megalopoli for the adventure of the stars. ” He closed the application on his screen and stood. “We had you thoroughly vetted before you walked through that door, doctor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Even the cosmopolitan areas in the country, would likely remind us more of a large county seat, than the megalopoli we have today. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Many people in larger cities are finally coming to the conclusion that life in cities like ours with good airports, weather, schools, health care and quality of life are more preferable to the ratrace in the megalopoli. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)

No gleam of lights from the swollen megalopoli of West Coast and East Coast. ❋ Barbara Hambly (2000)

To see the real sky you have to leave the city, get far away from the megalopoli. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- Last Starfighter (1984)