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@banjofox @emdeesee @amphetamine - A massive sprawl between two large cities that is connected by a complicated mass of surperhighway and surburbia, aptly named “midcities”. Otherwise known as the “Metroplex” because of a strong reliance of cars to get from one place to another.
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I still prefer and advocate the pre marketing term "Megalopolis"
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Coined in the seventies by a marketing firm Workin for the tourism board, as I understand it.
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This made made me wonder how long DFW has been known as the Metroplex. I knew it was called that in the 1980s when I moved to Texas the first time. Turns out it originated in 1972, so 45+ years.
I think the term is less used now? I'm seem to hear North Texas more often...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroplex