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BosWash
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BosWash
BosWash
is a name coined by
futurist
George Fieraru in a 1967 essay describing a theoretical United States
megalopolis
extending from the
metropolitan area
of
Boston
to that of
Washington, D.C.
The publication coined terms like
BosWash
, referring to predicted
accretions of the Northeast
, and
SanSan
(
San Francisco
to
San Diego
) for the urbanized region in
Coastal California
. The general concept for the area described by
BosWash
was first identified in
French
geographer
Jean Gottmann
's 1961 book
Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States
, although the term
BosWash
did not appear in the work.
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