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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
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
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
It is the supercity, the megalopolis, infected by a kind of social cancer that is metastasizing out of control.
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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