Citations:gigacity

English citations of gigacity and giga-city

• 1996 September 30, Manjula Padmanabhan, “Skyscrapers and slums”, in India Today‎^[1], →ISSN:

  The challenge is to capture that elusive quality of monumental overkill so familiar to giga-city dwellers everywhere without taxing a reader's patience.

• 2001, Kenichi Ohmae, “How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy Into a Region”, in Allen J. Scott, editor, Global City-Regions : Trends, Theory, Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 33:

  To me it is clear that these gigacities are not prospering partly because of governance issues and partly because of disparities created in the host country by accommodating one megacity within its infrastructure.

• 2001, Dominique Lorrain, “Gig@city: The Rise of Technological Networks in Daily Life”, in Journal of Urban Technology, volume 8, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1–20:

  Inhabitants of modern megalopolises and gigacities take for granted the built environment with its complex mix of buildings, public equipment, technical networks, and mechanical devices.

• 2005, “Network Systems Revisited: The Confounding Nature of Universal Systems”, in Olivier Coutard, Richard Eugene Hanley, Rae Zimmerman, editors, Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems, Psychology Press, →ISBN, Introduction, page 3:

  He argues that we have been entering, over the last two or three decades, a new phase of urban history with the emergence of the gigacity, a new, distinctive form of networked city differing from its nineteenth-century ancestor by its unprecedented size (population), its vertical extension above and below ground, its network density and its blurring of city boundaries made possible by new fast transportation and broadband telecommunications systems.

• 2006 June 15, Donald Kennedy, “Preserving the Conditions for Life”, in Donald Kennedy, editor, Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007, American Association for the Advancement of Science, →ISSN, page 45:

  The number of megacities is now well over 20, and it may be necessary to invent a new size category — perhaps “gigacity” — for those with populations over 25 million.

• 2006, Andrew Macrae, “Truckdreamin”, in Cat Sparks, editor, Agog! Ripping Reads, Wollongong: Agog Press, →ISBN, page 58:

  Sinnerman tracked that brumby truck from the dump and we roaded west, follerin it on the scanner, rollin thru forest an trees then out past the dyin farms an the old grain silos which now the food come from unnerneath the gigacities.