Everything about Conurbation totally explained
A
conurbation is an
urban area comprising a number of
cities, large
towns and larger urban areas that, through
population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrial built up area. It is thus a polycentric form of
agglomeration. In most cases, transportation has developed to link areas within the conurbation, to create a single urban
labour market or
travel to work area.
The term was coined as a
neologism in 1915 by
Patrick Geddes in his book
Cities In Evolution. He drew attention to the ability of the (then) new technology of electric power and motorised transport to allow cities to spread and agglomerate together, and gave as examples "
Midlandton" in England, the
Ruhr in Germany, and
New York-
Boston in the USA.
A conurbation can be confused with a
metropolitan area. A metropolitan area, as the term is used in North America, consists of many
neighborhoods, while a conurbation consists of many different metropolitan areas that are connected with one another and are usually interdependent economically and socially.
Examples of Conurbations
The Randstad
The
Randstad, which is a densely populated area in the Netherlands consisting of a cluster of the four biggest cities of the country and several smaller cities, towns and urbanized villages, is another appropriate example of a conurbation. The
Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium, by contrast, is an ordinary type of agglomeration centered on one city.
The metropolitan
Manila area is another good example, which includes the city of Manila proper as well as surrounding cities like
Quezon City and
Makati.
United Kingdom
Industrial and housing growth in the
United Kingdom from the 19th century on has produced many conurbations. The most populous conurbation in the United Kingdom is the
Greater London Urban Area, which totals approximately 8.2 million residents. Other examples include the
West Midlands conurbation (which includes Birmingham and Wolverhampton);
Greater Manchester;
West Yorkshire (which includes Leeds and Bradford);
South Yorkshire (which includes Sheffield and Rotherham); and
Merseyside. In the mid-1950s the
Green Belt was introduced to stem the further urbanisation of the countryside in England.
Greater Los Angeles Area
The
Greater Los Angeles Area Conurbation in southern California has over 15 million inhabitants. It comprises more than 170 separate municipalities in five counties (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ventura).
Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, Canada
The
Golden Horseshoe is a densely populated and
industrialized region centred around the west end of
Lake Ontario in
Southern Ontario,
Canada. Most of it's also part of the
Windsor-Quebec City corridor. With a population of 8.1 million people, it makes up slightly over a quarter (25.6%) of the population of Canada and contains approximately 75% of Ontario's population, making it one of the largest population concentrations in North America. Although it's a geographically named sub-region of Southern Ontario,
Greater Golden Horseshoe is more frequently used today to describe the metropolitan regions that stretch across the area in totality.
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