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ecumenopolis, n. A city or strongly-connected network of cities that occupies the entire surface of a planet.

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I want to be clear that this is an actual word created by an actual urban planner and not a shitpost

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@noelle Someone actually had to coin this. :blobnervous:

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@noelle ...why tho

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@packbat He was forward-thinking, I guess?

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@packbat @noelle urban planner supervillain plans to take over the world to convert it into a perfectly efficient ecumenopolis

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@monorail @noelle I'd read that comic book

...no, that's not necessarily true, but I'd post about the existence of that comic book on my group chats for the amusement of my friends and link it so they can read it

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@packbat @noelle honestly it's as good a supervillain origin story as anything else. would probably fit in relatively well into someone like superman's rogues gallery

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@packbat @noelle could have philosophical arguments about the difference between a "perfect life" planned out for everyone and personal liberty while beating the snot out of each other

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@monorail @noelle oh yeah, that's always fun

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@packbat @noelle you have NO idea

urban planning is one of the wildest fields ever

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@noelle is it bad that I only know the word from Warhammer 40,000?

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@corvak @noelle I only know it from Magic: the Gathering. One of their most popular settings, Ravnica, is a an ecumenopolis

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@noelle I love me a shiny ecumenopolis

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@noelle Oh my gosh I what a lovely word! And it had never occurred to me to look up the etymology of ecumen-! It hadn't occurred to me that it was from οἰκέω!

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