Word of the Day: megalopolis

The word megalopolis has appeared in eight articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 21 in “Exploring a Plan to Remake the L.A. River” by Soumya Karlamangla:

But the river flooded frequently. And as Los Angeles grew, development encroached on the river’s banks, leaving less open land to absorb the overflow. That came with disastrous consequences: During a heavy rainstorm in February 1938, the Los Angeles River burst its banks and ultimately killed 87 people.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decided to entomb the river in concrete to speed up water flow and prevent flooding, a project that was completed in the 1960s. The channel protected Los Angeles’s infrastructure and allowed the city to grow into a global megalopolis, Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times’s architecture critic, recently reported in The Times Magazine.

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