Chapter 4: MEGALOPOLIS

     This chapter mainly deal with Megalopolis. Megalopolis initially cioned by French geographer, Jean Gottmann for the large population agglomeration from Boston to Washington D.C.. Now, any agglomeration of large, coalescing super cities. As I mentioned earlier, Oakland is the eighth largeast city of California. I checked online, it could count as Megalopolis. More accurately, San Francisco, which is very close to Oakland could be counted as a Megalopolis.

     As the map shows, Oakland and San Francisco are in Bay area. They both are coast cities. According to Wikipedia, Oakland is a major West Coast port, and there are nearly 200,000 jobs related to marine cargo transport. Oakland experienced an increase of both its population and of land values in the early-to-mid first decade of the 21st century. The 10k Plan, which began during former mayor Elihu Harris' administration, and intensified during former mayor Jerry Brown's administration resulted in several thousand units of new multi-family housing and development.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,_California#Geography
                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(city_type)