Liquid city megalopolis and the contemporary Northeast
Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his descrip...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Resources for the Future
c2007.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628181206719 |
| Summary: | Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his description of the densely populated area of the northeastern United States that includes the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington.Liquid City is the first book to examine the social, economic, and demographic changes that have taken place in Megalopolis over the past fifty y |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781280686221 9786613663160 9781136527463 9781936331109 |
