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There to meet him was a gaggle of journalists from around the world who had assembled for the hitmaker's latest launch: a supercity packed with stunning architecture.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2022
I’m not suggesting that we should build an American version of Saudi Arabia’s planned desert supercity just east of the Bighorn Range.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
It is the supercity, the megalopolis, infected by a kind of social cancer that is metastasizing out of control.
From Time Magazine Archive
The emerging era of the supercity, Cox argues, grows out of town culture, but is qualitatively different; it is characterized by automation and mass communication, superhighway mobility, and the anonymity demanded by high-rise living.
From Time Magazine Archive
He includes an illustration of a supercity proposed by Buckminster Fuller that looks like a pyramid but lacks any perceptible improvement in living conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is especially true in Hyderabad, a fast-changing place in southern India that is striving to be included on the list of the country’s supercities, along with Delhi and Mumbai.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2019
It’s one of the world’s most coveted global supercities, so that puts a lot of pressure on it.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2017
Although supercities have always horrified environmentalists, they shouldn't.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
It is people who need assistance, not the supercities and their satellites.
From Time Magazine Archive
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