Metroplex (disambiguation)

A metropolitan complex ( Metroplex ) is a metropolitan area that has emerged from several major cities.

The term metropolitan complex immersed in the strict sense of metropolitan complexes in the rank of a mega city with more than five million inhabitants, which are not subject to centralized city government, but a co-operative management of integrated towns.

Compared with the more general meaning of a metropolitan region is entered at a metropolitan complex on the assumption that the proportion of remaining rural areas between the original city regions is low.

Megaplex

In the ( fantastic ) literature and colloquial language, the terms have undergone further development. Originally called simply the coalesced million cities such as Yokohama - Tokyo as a metropolitan complex in the fantastic projection but result from this additional urban agglomerations. Here it is not possible in claustrophobic presumption to be able to leave the city life without much effort. The city is so " mega" - become large. Here, items forming such mega city and in the convergence of megacities and Megaplexen, a metropolitan complex of megacities.

Here linguistic intermediate forms have to deal emerged, the shorter the word, the greater the importance of growing together as a mega metropolitan city. This results is because the more often the reference to the "Metro complex" is mitgesprochen as nickname to refer to the fact that not only the above-mentioned core cities are meant. And the more frequently the term is mitgesprochen, the more likely he is slurred and shortened. Consequently:

Metropolitan metropolitan → complex → complex → Metro Metroplex → Megaplex

Particularly common is currently the term " Metroplex Tokyo Yokohama" and represents currently the largest metropolitan complex - the 23 city wards of Tokyo have only 9 million inhabitants and Yokohama 3.7 million in the metropolitan region as a whole live 36.5 million people.