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City size is all definitional. My first ever look at the states was out the window of a plane flying to NYC from the Bahamas at night. Straight up the east coa
by harry8 2y ago
City size is all definitional.
My first ever look at the states was out the window of a plane flying to NYC from the Bahamas at night. Straight up the east coast. Mind blowing. To my eyes it was one enormous city without any meaningful separation all the way. I was expecting to be surprised by the scale of the usa and yet it was way beyond what i could imagine.
Others won’t share that definition.
- inatreecrown2 2y agobeautiful image!
- throw4847285 2y agoWe're not that far off from Judge Dredd's Mega-City One!
- dredmorbius 2y ago"BosWash" was the term E.F. Schumacher used for the east-coast conurbanation, in 1973. Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington. In Small is Beautiful: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful> It's sprawled more since. Apparently the term was coined by Herman Kahn in 1967: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BosWash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BosWash>
- nocoiner 2y agoBoston Atlanta Metropolitan Axis.
- m463 2y agoI thought the same thing when flying from west coast to east coast, but in a different way. In california a postage-stamp sized lot is a million dollars, yet flying over endless land all day in a plane at 600 mph, I couldn't help but think it might all be a scam.