Megacity

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The concentration of populations and the centralization of information defies predictions that the Internet and new technologies will undo cities. On the contrary, the reliance of contemporary communications on fiber creates a new centrality with a massing of strategic resources in giant metropolitan areas, or Megacities, acting as command points in the organization of the world economy.

The internal telecommunications structure of Megacities itself mirrors that of country-wide territories. Megacities bypass large areas of disconnected local populations. Uneven development will be the rule as the invisible city determines the economy above.

A Megacity is generally recognized when an urban area together with surrounding suburban and exurban areas coalesce into a postmetropolitan continuum with a population of massive size, usually greater than ten million inhabitants.