ABSTRACT
Other phrases suggest integration-"unique cluster of metropolitan areas" (p. 7) and "an almost continuous system of deeply interwoven urban and suburban areas" (p. 4). The key to most questions involved in his study, he declares, "lies in the interrelationships between the forces and processes at work in the area rather than in the trends of growth or the development of techniques" (p. 9). Finally, it may be noted, he states that Megalopolis is "characterized by concentration of a great variety of phenomena-in short, by manifold concentration-and by a polynuclear structure" (p. 25, emphasis in the original).
