Megapolis
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Megapolis is a variant of the word megalopolis
, meaning a large city or urban area.
Megapolis may also refer to:
Megalopolis (city type)
A megalopolis is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas. The term was used 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...
, meaning a large city or urban area.
Megapolis may also refer to:
- Megapolis FestivalMegapolis FestivalThe MEGAPOLIS Audio Festival is a weekend-long festival dedicated to the craft of do-it-yourself audio creation. The mission of MEGAPOLIS is to provide a forum for artists, documentarians, musicians, and fans to come together to share secrets on producing and presenting challenging audio works...
, an annual audio arts festival in the United States. - Prajay Megapolis, a large housing estate in Hyderabad, India.
- Megapolis, a passenger train in Russia. See List of named passenger trains of Russia.
- 2011 Burning ManBurning ManBurning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening...
Festival
See also
- Our Lady of Darkness, a 1977 book, by Fritz Leiber, that contains a description of 'Megapolisomancy', a fictional occult science.