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conurbation|kɒnɜːˈbeɪʃən|
[f. con- + L. urb-, urbs city + -ation; cf. F. conurbation.]
An aggregation of urban areas.
1915P. Geddes Cities in Evolution ii. 34 Some name, then, for these city-regions, these town aggregates, is wanted... What of ‘Conurbations’? Ibid., For our first conurbation the name of Greater London is..dominant. 1922C. B. Fawcett in Sociological Rev. Apr. 111 Vast urban aggregates, or conurbations. 1948Conurbation: Planning Survey of Birmingham i. 15 The term ‘conurbation’ means an area of continuous urban development which includes and connects two or more towns. 1957Listener 29 Aug. 319/3 Forty per cent of Britain's population and the greater part of its wealth is [sic] concentrated in the seven large industrial conurbations. 1959Ibid. 26 Feb. 368/1 The conurbations of Tyneside, Merseyside, West Riding, South-East Lancashire, and West Midlands. |