Megalopolis

Integrativity, where men create links where none existed
“Integrativity is probably the most common ordinary way of life in the city *…+
In integrativity one individual’s network is spread among domains without
very strong tendencies to concentration in any one *…+ However interactivity
could (perhaps perversely) be seen as a corrupting influence on urbanism as a
way of life, creating links where none existed and making unknown faces
known” (Hannerz, 259 ).
The feeling of loniless-solitude
“Turning to solitude, one may think of loniless as a convenient alternative
term. Solitude is a mode of existence by and large without significance relationships.”
(Hannerz, 260).
How will we get away from Megalopolis?
“But, he told himself, we’ve no power to alter the circumstances that are unknowingly
shaping our lives” (Sillitoe’s The General, in Gindin, 28).
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