megalopolitan

In October of 2020, when the megalopolitan started to re-open, some dabbawalas returned to work.

This “influential and controversial” group, reported the writer, “develop mutant forms of urbanism … which accept the megalopolitan condition with enthusiasm.”

Flynne’s rural milieu is an America that hasn’t received much attention from science fiction writers, whose settings have tended towards the megalopolitan.

In the atrium of the fictional Megalopolitan Building at 700-853 Fleet Street there is a “chryselephantine effigy of Lord Copper,” The Beast’s proprietor, “in coronation robes, rising above the throng, on a polygonal malachite pedestal.”

Istanbul, like Cairo, suffers from megalopolitan overpopulation.