Sunday, March 25, 2007

question!

What's a conurbation?

3 comments:

Ridiculous Authenticity said...

I can only assume that question was posed for me. Of course you could have asked me directly, but nevermind that.

A conurbation is an agglomeration of cities, towns, suburbs, whatever you want to call those things into some sort of "working" whole. "Metropolitan area" would be a synonym. What we generally refer to as Los Angeles is perhaps the clearest example of a conurbation. When we talk about "Los Angeles" we generally include the many bits that aren't legally part of the city of Los Angeles.

Why do you want to know anyway?

Alexandra Frank. said...

Oh, I know what a conurbation is. I guess it was just my way of getting you to write the post on MY blog.

Ridiculous Authenticity said...

Fishing for comments, eh?