Thompson more defensible is the proposition that a large population (the scale effect) and location on the seaboard or the Great Lakes are sufficient conditions for rapid population growth to large size and substantial growth beyond even from a large base. But appar-ently not necessary conditions: see Phoenix and Denver. Megalopolis Revisited The great urbanized strips that have spread across the country -- "megalopolis -- are also probably in part real and in

DOI link for Thompson more defensible is the proposition that a large population (the scale effect) and location on the seaboard or the Great Lakes are sufficient conditions for rapid population growth to large size and substantial growth beyond even from a large base. But appar-ently not necessary conditions: see Phoenix and Denver. Megalopolis Revisited The great urbanized strips that have spread across the country -- "megalopolis -- are also probably in part real and in

Thompson more defensible is the proposition that a large population (the scale effect) and location on the seaboard or the Great Lakes are sufficient conditions for rapid population growth to large size and substantial growth beyond even from a large base. But appar-ently not necessary conditions: see Phoenix and Denver. Megalopolis Revisited The great urbanized strips that have spread across the country -- "megalopolis -- are also probably in part real and in