The REAL Mega City One

[dinohunterpoa]

You've probably already seem this...

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-mega-city-has-more-people-than-canada-argentina-or-australia-2015-7

 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Not sure why but the link did not work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population

Odd range of countries in the title/URL.

Tokyo sprawl beats Australia, close to Canada, a megacity shy of Argentina.

What is the city they are talking about?

[dinohunterpoa]

The link works fine for me... 

China's Pearl River Delta is swallowing up nearby cities.

As the largest urban area in the world, the region features a population of roughly 42 million housed inside a 2,700-square-mile perimeter.

The Pearl River Delta is made up of nine cities, each boasting populations above 1 million. And China is combining them all into one giant megacity.

It's bigger than Canada (pop: 35 million), Australia (pop: 23 million), and Argentina (pop: 41 million).

[Ultravanillasmurf]

It might be locally redirected (the URL changes to a country specific one).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta
57.15 Million.

It does include Hong Kong etc.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice slider controlled time lapse of growth here:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/10/china-pearl-river-delta-then-and-now-photographs

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Also working towards "Chung Kuo" by David Wingrove.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Kuo_(novel_series)
Think of a hive city on a planetary scale.

In Beijing there were plenty of MC1 styled buildings, I will see if I can find some photographs.

[waitwhat]

There is a very good book abut the history of plagues and disease that shows this situation to be the equivalent of lighting the fuse on a global plague bomb.

I particularly enjoy the pics of the combination kitchen/toilets and keenly await the release of SARS 2: electric boogaloo.