The word 'conurbation' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to an extended urban area, typically consisting of several cities or towns merging together. An example sentence using 'conurbation' could be: "London and its surrounding areas form one of the largest conurbations in Europe."
And however awkward the reality, no conurbation, be it the British one or its American namesake the greatest city in Alabam' likes to be known mainly as a byword for inter-communal segregation.Transatlantic name-calling, some of it light-hearted and some of it anything but, has been one of the reactions to last week's horrific events in France.
Call it "Deltametropolis", no longer an overpopulated region but a single, thinly populated city, a conurbation to rival any in Europe.
The new Toronto will have clout in negotiations with the 4.5m-strong conurbation around it, where the Greater Toronto Services Board rules over strategic plans and major roads.The economy anyway is thriving, aided not least by an inflow of immigrants: by now over 40% of all mega-Torontans are foreign-born, the big flow recently coming from Asia.
And did its citizens hail the newborn giant as a model of development, as in many ways this conurbation has been?
They want to create a health and wellbeing board, made up of NHS and local-government representatives, to administer a single budget for the conurbation.
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Declaring the growth in population and employment within Birmingham to be a "threatening situation", the incoming Labour Government of 1964 sought "to control the growth of office accommodation in Birmingham and the rest of the Birmingham conurbation before it got out of hand, in the same way as they control the growth of industrial employment".
Take Middlesbrough, a city in the northern Teesside conurbation.
Sway over local economies such as the West Midlands conurbation is split between too many local authorities, none of which is strong enough to push through big reforms or infrastructure projects.Some of Lord Heseltine's suggestions here are helpful.
The vast conurbation around Chicago what the Census Bureau calls the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet metropolitan area, which includes bits of Indiana and Wisconsin had grown by 11.2%.
No new major roads have been built in the Caracas conurbation since the 1970s, while in that time the number of cars in the area has risen from 200,000 to over 1.4m.
