Gigacity

Quick meaning: Gigacity is a noun meaning A city even larger in scale than a megacity.

Meaning

A city even larger in scale than a megacity.

Example Sentences

Inhabitants of modern megalopolises and gigacities take for granted the built environment with its complex mix of buildings, public equipment, technical networks, and mechanical devices.

To me it is clear that these gigacities are not prospering partly because of governance issues and partly because of disparities created in the host country by accommodating one megacity within its infrastructure.

Sinnerman tracked that brumby truck from the dump and we roaded west, follerin it on the scanner, rollin thru forest an trees then out past the dyin farms an the old grain silos which now the food come from unnerneath the gigacities.

He argues that we have been entering, over the last two or three decades, a new phase of urban history with the emergence of the gigacity, a new, distinctive form of networked city differing from its nineteenth-century ancestor by its unprecedented size (population), its vertical extension above and below ground, its network density and its blurring of city boundaries made possible by new fast transportation and broadband telecommunications systems.

Word Forms

• gigacities

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include megacity, megatropolis, supercity, megapolis, megapolitan, city.

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