conurbation
An extensive urban settlement that is formed when two or more cities, which were originally separate, grow together to form a continuous metropolitan region or megalopolis.

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A Dictionary of Public Health (2 ed.)
...conurbation An aggregation of urban regions in which several cities are contiguous with one another without intervening rural regions. ...

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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... An extensive urban settlement that is formed when two or more cities , which were originally separate, grow together to form a continuous metropolitan region or megalopolis...

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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... Term coined by Geddes c .1915 for an aggregate of towns linked up to form one built-up area, e.g. the Potteries district of Staffs., or Greater...

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A Dictionary of Geography (5 ed.)
... A group of towns forming a continuous built-up area as a result of urban sprawl (also called metropolitan area ). See the classification outlined by Raybould et al. (2000) Update 25, 2–4S ; see also S. Brunn ( 2003...

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A Dictionary of Human Geography
... A group of settlements geographically close enough together to be considered a single, larger metropolitan region. Ostrava in the Czech Republic is a good example, comprised as it is of some 30 previously separate townships that have merged over time. See also city...

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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
... A term coined by Patrick Geddes in 1915 to describe large-scale city regions such as Greater London, New York/Boston, or the Ruhr. It is not a statistically based concept, but normally refers to one city or a conglomerate of very large cities surrounded by extensive suburbs, and which forms a continuous urban and industrial built-up environment. In most cases, transportation systems develop to link all districts within the conurbation, so as to create a single urban labour market or travel-to-work area. Alternative terms are urban agglomeration...

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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
... An early term in geography that describes the emergence of continuous urban zones, such as that between Washington, D.C., and Boston. The term was introduced by the Scottish geographer and urban planner Patrick Geddes ( Cities in Evolution , 1915 ). Jean Gottmann 's more recent term, megalopolis , is a near...

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... XX. f. CON- + L. urbs , urb- city ( cf. URBAN ) + -ATION...

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The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...city areas, in so concentrating populations, may be seen as tending to supersede, in certain regions of Britain, the traditional urban networks that had acted formerly in the same vicinities as the vertebrae of the old cultural provinces. In the more successful and vibrant conurbations, nevertheless, a populist sense of urban–regional identity was newly expressed, most notably in widely circulated dialect literature and in the humorous local characterizations of popular theatre (see P. Joyce , Visions of the People (1991) ). For a time, however, the more...

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