Sansan (Megalopolis)
The megalopolis Sansan is a name for a scientific construct of a chain of metropolitan areas in western California along the coast from San Francisco to San Diego . The name is composed as an artificial word from the names of the two cities. In English usage, syllables are capitalized in the names of the US megalopolis ( SanSan , BosWash and Chipitts ). In the German-speaking context, however, only the first letter is usually capitalized. Sansan comprises most of California's population including the Greater Los Angeles Area , which is home to about a third of the state's total population.
Like Chipitt's , which is also not clearly defined , the term was coined in 1961 by the French geographer Jean Gottmann. While “Sansan” barely came into common usage - partly because there was no sufficiently valid reason to distinguish Sansan from California as a whole and thus to establish a new term - Gottmann's word creation “ Boswash ” (the oldest and largest megalopolis) did find its way into parlance.
The Tehachapi Mountains represent a natural border between southern California and the rather sparsely populated central California. Extensive rural areas between the two corner points of Sansan weaken the thesis of a single contiguous megalopolis. The current trends in urbanization in California do not affect the coast itself and not even the first rows of coastal valleys, but rather the geographic center of the state in the California long valley and the nearby valleys. There are still great distances between the cities directly on the coast. In the early 1960s, however, authors such as Gottmann and Reed had expected the settlement gaps between the regions of San Francisco and Los Angeles along the coast to be largely closed by around 2020.
A thesis paper from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 2005 tries to further develop Gottmann's construct based on current trends. Instead of the Sansan megalopolis, two megapolitan areas (agglomeration level between the metropolitan region and megalopolis) are defined here: "NorCal" in Northern California and "Southland" in Southern California. Both terms previously existed in the respective regions.
Important cities in the megalopolis of Sansan
literature
- Jean Gottmann: Megalopolis. The Urbanized Northeastern Seabord of the United States. The Twentieth Century Fund, New York 1961
- Charlton Charles Reed: A Sketch Design for the State of California for the Year 2020, Including a California Megalopolitan Area. Harvard University 1962
- Alf Mintzel: Multiethnic and multicultural megacities. Megalopolises and metropolises in North America and Europe. University of Passau, Chair of Sociology 1999 (Passau papers on social science, booklets accompanying teaching, series A, booklet 5)
- Robert E. Lang / Dawn Dhavale: Beyond Megalopolis. Exploring America's New "Megapolitan" Geography. Metropolitan Institute Census Report Series, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean Gottmann: Megalopolis. The Urbanized Northeastern Seabord of the United States. The Twentieth Century Fund, New York 1961
- ^ Charlton Charles Reed: A Sketch Design for the State of California for the Year 2020, Including a California Megalopolitan Area. Harvard University 1962
- ^ Robert E. Lang / Dawn Dhavale: Beyond Megalopolis. Exploring America's New "Megapolitan" Geography. Metropolitan Institute Census Report Series, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, July 2005 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed October 25, 2008
